Learning to Transform When asked to explore the relationship between learning and transformation in the Native oral tradition one has to wonder. ... The correlation between learning and transformation in the native oral tradition has a duel nature. ... In each story Natives learn that both Salmon and Deer live as humans in their own worlds. The stories teach the Natives that both animals sacrifice themselves to feed people. If the Natives respect these animals by saving all their bones and returning them to the water the animals will come back to life. ...

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The land grab and expansion west placed all native Americans into harms way. ... The quest for more land and gold were the driving force behind the destruction of the Native Americans. ... The tribes were remove from their native homelands and force into reservations. ... Many Indians claimed different ethnicity, and only later to returned to identify their true heritage. ... This hurts the image of Native Americans, but I still support the issue if it betters the quality of life for Native Americans living of reservations...

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The groups include women, African-Americans, and Native-Americans. ... Indian wars broke out between European settlers and Native-Americans. ... In the Black Hawk War, an effort by tribes to return to their homelands ended in a terrible slaughter. ... The Native-Americans did not end up much better than the slaves at first. ... The settlements moved farther inland and missionaries were invited to return and establish schools. ...

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To a Native American, his family, village and clan were the most important group. ... The Native American's didn't believe in land ownership, but instead thought of the earth as something that they could "borrow" in order to survive. ... They gave gifts with the expectation that they would get something in return. ... In my opinion, it would have been a much happier assembly of the two worlds if England had arrived first, because they would have been friendlier to the Native Americans and tried to live in peace together. ...

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They then returned to St. ... The expedition started up again on April 7th, 1805, continuing west with only thirty-three members, the others returning to St. ... They spent their winter at the fort and prepared for their return to St. ... After that they returned to St. ... Lewis and Clark's journals of the expedition give a description of the natural resources and native peoples of the west and contain information on many scientific matters. ...

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Native American Voices The book of Genesis V.S. ... The Spiritual legacy The Native Americans have had great riches in human and spiritual resources. ... During the early contacts between the Europeans and the Native Americans, the Europeans found the Indians either a brutal uncivilized savage or as a naive child. ...

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I Heard the Owl Call My Name, a novel by Margaret Craven is a very interesting look into the lives of the Native Americans who live in the Canadian wilderness. ... She writes of the "bald eagles fishing for herring" in chapter one and in chapter eleven she writes that "...the eagles and the robins returned to the village...wild geese called...the wise old crow cawed over the river". ... After conducting the short service, the tribal elders conducted their own memorial in their native tongue. ... Mark asks Chief Eddy about some of the native language and Mark tries his best to understand. .....

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In return the white men gave the Indians goods, valued from $5,000 to $10,000. ... When he awoke he claimed that the Master of Life had chosen him to return and lead the Indians to salvation through his new religion. ... With this defeat in their minds many of them returned to their homes. After Tecumseh's return, he joined the British against the Americans in the War of 1812. ... These examples show that the Native American's were not a race that could easily be taken over. ...

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Columbus dubbed these and other peoples of the New World Indians', and unlike their North American counterparts (which are now more fairly and politically correct referred to as Native Americans) we still call them indigenous people. ... The pirates were mainly runaway men that included criminals, refugees and escaped slaves who saw no point in returning to their native lands. ... Fray Pané's accounts were mainly of the religious traditions and customs of the Taíno people, as a friar commissioned not only to make critical observations about the religion he was studying, mo...

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Jefferson has a specific instruction for Lewis and Clark when they were to run into an Indian tribe. " In all your intercourse with the natives treat them in the most friendly and conciliatory manner which their own conduct will admit; commercial dispositions of the U.S of our wish to be neighborly, friendly and useful to them." ( Barth, 21) The reason Jefferson told Lewis to treat them as people and not savages is because Jefferson felt that the men would be showing the Indians that Americans will treat the native Indians better than the British, Spanish and French. Lewis also gave the Nati...

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Capitalist states have fought with each other as well as with native peoples over land, oil, lumber, etc. just so they could increase profits. ... From the very beginning, starting with Columbus and his "discovery" of the Americas, the exploitation and killing began: "Columbus wrote: "As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts." ... Whatever there is to be gained by going to war is spent many times over just to return to where they w...

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The Ghost Dance Society of 1890 was the last ditch effort of the Sioux Indians to keep their culture and religion. Slowly but surely their land was being seized by the white man and they were being moved to reservations. Life for the Sioux Indians was not as it used to be. The ghost dance promised t...

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Disease and armed conquest had ravaged the native people of the New World. ... Virginia company's charter guaranteed overseas settlers the same rights as native Englishmen. ... The colonists tried to return home, but were met by a relief party led by Lord De La Warr who ordered the settlers back to Jamestown and imposed a strict military regime on the colony. ... The resulting peace treaty banished the natives from their ancestral lands-the origins of the later reservation system. 5. ... Other Native Americans were forced out of their ancestral lands. ...

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