We have been taught since elementary school that the pilgrims journeyed away from Europe to escape from the oppression of the British king to be free in the new land of the Americas. ... What right did we have to take that land, when it was owned by several Native American tribes whom travelers, hunters, and journalists transformed from human beings with various cultures into savages all because of the different ways they lived, their speech, their styles of clothing, and probably more so, their skin color. ... Their race has been almost wiped away into extinction, because it was either move i...

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NAGPRA applies when human remains and funerary objects are recovered from federal or Indian land. It states that ownership or control of Native American human remains or objects shall be given to lineal descendents of the Native American or Indian tribe on whose land such objects or remains were discovered or Indian tribe which has the closest cultural affiliation and states a claim for such remains or objects to the study of the remains. (3) A coalition of five Native American tribes claim Kennewick Man as an ancestor and have requested that his bones be returned for proper burial under NAGRP...

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Made in 1959 and released in 1960 The Magnificent Seven marks the end of the traditional style of the Western genre. It is a Good Samaritan story with a difference, and it is clear to see the change in certain existing preconceptions within the film that contrast so greatly with those of it's predecessors amongst the traditional western. The initial perceptions of Mexicans within The Magnificent Seven are the same typical Mexican stereotypes within American Western movies up to and including the 1960's, these being the terrorising Bandido, and the helpless peasants. These two ste...

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