European Americans even drove Mexicans further and further south, all of this until we have the corners of what we call the United States today. ... He wanted European immigrants to assimilated into American citizens as soon as possible – but what exactly does that mean? In my previous paper, I mentioned how white Americans have this fascination with simultaneously breaking away from English monarchy while still have an unconscious obsession with it (the imperial use of measurements instead of the metric system, yet we still followed similar education, etiquette, and money rituals that ...

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Duke Professor of Anthropology Emeritus in Duke University who researched peyote usage by Native Americans from the 1930's through the 1980's, covers the use of the peyote cactus for religious purposes across much of the United States Southwest and further south into Mexico in his book entitled The Peyote Cult. ... They all want to have their vision, to receive their true names, their adult names" (Brown & Ling 392). ...

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The scene suggest a loving family of valiant pioneers living off of the abundance of nature, but the importance of ugly tree remains and axes in close proximity makes the viewer wonder if Cole did not want to symbolize humanity's lackadaisical demolition of nature, the idea that humanity might be falling from grace and destroying the New Eden, and he may have wished to warn people that they should preserve an attentive balance with it. ... Revolted by several changes he witnessed, he declared in 1841: "I know, full well, that the forests must be felled for fuel and tillage, and that r...

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