The government took Native American land for the pioneers and moved them to reservations. They also made them be more American and less Native American. ... Helen Hunt Jackson was an activist for Native Americans. ... When he went to Washington, D.C. to try to convince the congress-men and cabinet members to let them return to their tribal lands. ... Some Native Americans adopted white ways and some did not. ...

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Native Americans, many of whom sided with the British in hopes of stopping colonial expansion onto native land, had large tribal territories relinquished to the newly formed United States after the war. The next 50 years following the end of the war saw a myriad of American sentiment towards Native Indians. U.S. policies of the 1880's and 1890's attempted to force American culture and education on Native Indians in an effort to form a docile relationship. ... While current laws and statues have attempted to correct past injustices of native Indians by returning lost homeland and su...

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Before he returned with more men, a vast number of Aztecs suffered and died of smallpox because there bodies had no natural immunities to it. Smallpox was not only seen by the Aztecs, but became a problem for many other Native Americans as well. ... The European's overall desire for god, gold, and glory had horrible effects upon the Native American's as well. ... In other ways the Europeans greed negatively affected the Native American's, too. ... The land that was once tribal land for the Native Americans were quickly overrun by Europeans, and because they saw the Native Americ...

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Enraged by what king did, the colonist resolved this by disguising themselves as Native Americans and dumped 18,000 pounds of tea into the ocean. ... When they met the Native Americans, they survived through their friendship and began having good relations with them. However, over time, the colonist's and the Native American's relationship became rocky when there were many bad rumors going around. The colonist became more aggressive; being greedy in taking more land and deterred the Native's trust when the Pilgrims first attacked them in 1623. In return, to keep up with their p...

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Calling ourselves Americans is basically a lie since we are not Natives to this land. Some even try to justify these actions on Natives by pointing out that the Native Americans had attacked and raided on American settlements. ... Native Americans did not understand European ideology. Native Americans had no idea why the Europeans could fight for land, "Death makes us owners of nothing is what the Native Americans believed. ... Various tribes of Indians fought on the side of the United States against their Indian brothers in return for promised protection against removal, government promises p...

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The Native Americans were a group that kept no written records. ... Another common feature of Native American traditions is creation myths. ... So they wept, because no on would answer them, and they couldn't return to their former place. ... The Native Americans were a very diverse peoples that many different aspects of religion that varied from tribe to tribe. Interestingly, the Native Americans did not have a concept of individual sin and salvation. ...

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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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Each tribe had different words in their native tongue to describe nature. ... Certain aspects of Native American culture seem to be overplayed in the short stories. ... the loss and almost mocking of the native culture and tradition. The mother and the brother do not believe in the child's willingness to return to nature to save their culture. The child's intuition and ties with nature seem to me at least, in the past, to have been on what the Native American culture was based. ...

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One part of the Spanish conquest of the Americas focused on religion: on their need to convert Native Americans to the one true religion. ... Not only did the Spanish get the Native Americans to convert, they also got them to be their employees. Having the Native Americans do the work that the Spanish settlers didn't want to do. ... It wasn't a mistake that they settled in the Americas with the Native Americans. ... Spanish settlers became powerful in the Americas and were able to get the Native people to work for them and in return they taught them the proper religion. ...

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Although the people made the Articles this way because they didn't want to return to a strong central government like the one they had just escaped from in Britain, they didn't realize the conflicts it would cause. ... The Articles of Confederation was ineffective in solving the US's problems with the British, Native Americans, and Spanish. ... A few British anti-federalists in the west along with the Spanish were persuading Native Americans that the Americans were evil, so this caused more wars and conflicts with Native Americans. ... The Articles of Confederation was ultimatel...

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That image changed in recent years to a more sympathetic feeling toward Native Americans. ... Native American authors have shown this for a few years. ... Both authors indicate how the Native American of today has been forcibly separated from the land and thought of his ancestors and what a devastating effect this has had on Native American society. ... Endrich gives the unique perspective of mixed blood on her views of the Native American cultural identity. ... Lyman damages the car to try and help Henry return to his old self. ...

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It is these questions Abigail Solomon-Godeau explores in her article "Going Native: Paul Gauguin and the Invention of Primitivist Modernism." ... He immersed himself in archaic customs in order to return to the primitive. Gauguin claimed to have "returned to origins" both artistically and spiritually. ... In spite of all this he still presented himself to the European market as being immersed in the native society. One way he attempted to do this was to give his works native titles. ...

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However, not to say that native peoples of North and South America did not influence Europeans. ... Word spread rapidly of the riches the new world had to offer when Columbus returned to Spain. ... Beyond the scopes of politics and economics native peoples influenced European diets, habits and cultures. ... Soon after explores returned with new foods and products, such as tobacco to Europe, Europeans grew fond of these new and tasty commodities and desired more greatly, for ever changing the European lifestyle. ... This contact with these new and strange people devastated the natives inde...

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In Heart of Darkness Marlow assumes that he will return to civilization after finding Kurtz. ... The white men not only dominate their respective crews, but also the peoples native to the country the white men are visiting. The character Conrad uses, Marlow, and Coppola uses his character, Willard, both look at the natives as though white men are the civilized culture and the native people are the savage culture. ... Willard exits to find the natives begin to worship him. ... The novel ends with Marlow returning to the United States. ...

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When he returned he found all his men dead. ... They were killed because they had no respect for the Native women. ... When John Smith encountered the Natives he didn't receive any resistance from the Native women. ... The Natives believe the hair to be animal like. ... The Natives also had rules against incest. ...

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Segment Analysis on Smoke Signals The film entitled Smoke Signals, directed by Chris Eyre deals with the lifestyle of Native Americans living on an Indian reservation in Idaho. ... When they return to the reservation, both Victor and Thomas have found new respect for each other as well as for Arnold Joseph. ... The closing scene not only reflects Victor's accomplishment, it also relates to the all the other Native Americans on the reservation. Throughout the film the Native Americans are depicted as a minority society that live in poverty and closed off from the rest of the world. ... ...

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This has never been truer than in the case of the Native Americans. ... This proved to be the largest cause of problems between the Native Americans and the Europeans. ... The first clashes between the natives and the Europeans occurred as a result of this difference, which was also well connected to the superiority that Europeans conserved as a feeling toward the Native Americans. ... "Intercultural exchanges include Native Americans providing agricultural techniques, furs, and foodstuffs in return for European weapons, metal cooking utensils, and clothing." The horse was probably the most...

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They would return years later with their families and some Irish slaves. ... [and] returned to Greenland the following summer...... However, these settlements did not last long, due clashes with the Native Americans. Later, it is guessed that they had a friendly relationship with the natives and began to trade with them (Brown 6). This possibly influenced later interactions with Native Americans. ...

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The Native American Through time the concerns of a certain group can stay consistent. ... The Native American speech of Red Jacket, a Seneca clearly states his attitudes and goals. ... Later he tells how they brought their poison (liquor) in return for their hospitality. ... The Cavalry forced them out of their native land causing them to become nomadic. ... As seen the Native American people fought hard to achieve there goals. ...

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In order for one to understand how the conquest caused distinct changes to the culture and ecology of the native population and land one must first understand how the New England natives and environment functioned before the Europeans landed, how the European settlements functions differed the natives ideals and culture, and what effects European conquest had on the native people and the land. ... " The native population of New England lived centered around necessities and survival rather than wealth and pleasure. ... The environment thrived in return. The Europeans were polar opposite...

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Momaday refers to the Native's word as the "spoken word," and the non-Native's word as the "written word.... The importance of language shows especially when Abel wants to speak to his grandfather after returning home from war. ... Natives choose the words with which they speak in a meticulous manner, as opposed to the words the non-Natives choose to use. ... From this, we can see that it is apparent that the importance of the Word is considered much more to the Natives than to the non-Natives. ... Momaday was able to show the distinction between the Native and non-Nat...

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A third group, the natives of this new world, play somewhat of a neutral group. ... New England is rejoiced to hear of his return and great preparations are made. ... Has she died by the hand of savages or is she unwilling to return? ... Finally getting to see her, he attempted to ask her why she had not returned. ... She does not want to return, she is happy in Kahnawake. ...

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Each conquistador had their own way about going about conquering empires, interacting with natives and fulfilling their religions goals on the way. ... He wondered if the leader of the strangers might be an Aztec god who vowed to return from the east. ... Conquistadors interacted with natives many times along their expeditions. ... The religious goals of the conquistadors was mainly to spread Christianity to the native people they encountered. ... The early encounters between the Spanish conquistadors and Native Americans had long-lasting impacts that reached far beyond these two groups. ...

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In Wik, the High Court decided that the grant of a pastoral lease does not necessarily extinguish native title, ie that native title can co-exist with rights conferred to pastoralists under the terms of their leases. ... However, according to Wik, where there is conflict in the exercise of those rights, native title rights are subordinate to those of the pastoral leaseholder. ... Aborigines view the land as their mother, and believe that they came from it, belong to it, and one day will return to it. ... They believe that the land is a "reincarnation" of their ancestors, as once a perso...

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This was true for the three minority groups in the late 1800's-women, Native Americans, and emancipated slaves. ... The slaves are similar to the animal because they always had what was needed, and then they had nothing, which brought them great suffering, but they, like the animal, never wanted to return to the cage. ... The whites had confused them, and tricked them into giving them the Native's land. ... Native Americans in the 1800's wanted peace and preservation, but instead they got war. ... As a result of the incorrect stereotypes, Native Americans faced many diffi...

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