Native American Art and Spirituality I spoke with my friend Tom Attle, who has a Bachelors degree in Art, and he told me that there is no term in Indian Culture for Art. ... In the book, The Spirit of Native America: Beauty and Mysticism in American Indian Art, by Anna Lee Walters, she states, "Curiously though, no word exists in the hundreds of Native American languages that comes close to our definition of art. ... The answer is that the Indians did not set out to create art for its own sake. In traditional Indian thinking, there is no separation between art and life or between what ...

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And even though these "Indians" are the true enlighteners, the world looks at Indians as uncivilized savages that the Europeans liberated and enlighten with the old world customs when in reality is the other way around. Throughout the years, history hasn't given proper acknowledgment to the American Indians. ... So to put the names of their country high above others, they destroy what seem useless or couldn't imitate and made a "discovery " that was already discovered by the Indians. ... So even though federalism was proposed by an Indian chief, who his people already ran a sim...

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King sheds much light on the history of the Native Culture, the incarceration of the seventy-two Indians at Fort Marion in the late eighteen hundreds, and the continuous fight for Native rights. ... Initially one of the four Indians, who takes on the persona of the Lone Ranger, attempts to tell the story, but cannot find the proper beginning line. ... This is a direct allusion to the incarceration of the seventy-two Indians at Fort Marion, as they were forced to draw ledger art, which was sold for the profit of their captors. ... Ishmael is the next Indian to tell th...

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