In the New World, Native Americans had long been developing society and tools at their own pace. ... The Native Americans and Europeans lived different lifestyles, as they had extremely different cultures and technologies. ... A certain woman, Mary Rowlandson, among other people, described the time spent with Native Americans as savage or animalistic. ... The methods of food collection and production also varied between the Europeans and the Native Americans, due to the underdeveloped material culture in the Americas. ... Lack of material culture development and advancement in the Americas led...

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Appropriation of the Native American culture in fashion merchandisers has degraded the significance and power behind each element of the Native identity. ... They way that fashion industry has interpreted Native American culture and/or style, has influenced the way Americans now think of Indians. ... For example, Victoria Secret presented a bathing suit inspired by the Native American culture. ... The Native American culture holds a lot of value in their clothing making process. ... They have promoted misconceptions of the Native American's cultural history. ...

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The Native American tribes and Nations are perceived to be the first people on the continental America. ... As time went on, Native American populations shrunk while the settler's populations expanded. ... During the American Revolution, native America's played a vital role in the war. ... Today, Native Americans are as entrenched in the community as much as almost everyone else is. ... Is it fair for Indian Americans and the descendants of the great Native American nations, be granted sovereignty within the borders of the USA? ...

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In general, however, Native Americans are portrayed as a form of civilized wildlife. ... This naturally led to plenty of misunderstandings between the emigrants and Native Americans. ... There were many instances when Native Americans would risk their lives in order to save drowning Americans (72,79). ... The American emigrants would have never been able to complete their journeys without the vital aid provided by the Native Americans. ... These narratives seldom mentioned the social interactions that occurred between the Americans and the Native American tribes. ...

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A Comparison of Native American and African American Cultures Native American and African American cultures each have had their own long rich histories from before the white majority arrived in America. ... Native American History What is often referred to as the Native American population is actually comprised of over 500 unique tribes (Jackson, 1995). ... African American History with Native American Comparisons While Native Americans were fighting for their land from encroaching settlers, Africans were being captured and brought to America. ... One myth is that Native American is the prefer...

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The culture of the Native Americans has definitely not been an exception to this over the past years in America's history. ... From religion, to clothing, and even Native American food, the culture is just not the same as it once was. ... The Native Americans lived a very simple and peaceful way of life. ... When the European settlers arrived in America, their western way of life completely clashed with Native American culture. ... The Native Americans were often slaughtered by the Europeans, drastically declining their population. ...

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There are many people that realize what problems Native Americans deal with that are expressed in the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. ... To begin, one of the problems expressed in the book, is the living conditions of the Native Americans, this a huge problem because majority Native Americans live in low quality houses, this are major problem because it has a huge impact on the family and the community. In the Meriam Report it states that "The Native Americans are easily sickened because they are closer together.... Based off of these fact people can conclude tha...

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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. As American expansion continued West following the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, Native Indians were seen as a nuisance impeding t...

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Impact of European Invasion on Native American Cultures In 1492, Christopher Columbus set upon his voyage to the far east, but ended up reaching a "new and untamed" land. ... This period, rightly named The Age of Discovery, brought about riches to the European countries who exploited the new world, but also had a huge impact on the Native American cultures of this time. ... Because of this, Native Americans lacked any immunities to dieases brought by the Europeans. ... Native Americans enjoyed vast territories that were unplundered and unspoiled. ... The ravaging of the Native Amer...

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The land grab and expansion west placed all native Americans into harms way. The establishment of the United States of America would be the defining point for the Native American Indians because this created a government with colonial motivation. ... After the independence from England America turned its attention toward Native Americans who were in the way of expansion. ... The quest for more land and gold were the driving force behind the destruction of the Native Americans. ... This hurts the image of Native Americans, but I still support the issue if it betters the quality of life for Nati...

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One movie that is mostly referred to for people studying about Native American Cinema is Smoke Signals. The film is credited be the first movie that has been produced, directed, and even has actors of Native American origin. ... In light of this very aspect, the film Smoke Signals can be portrayed as a plight of two Native American sons. ... This feature is easily recognizable by anyone who would have closely interacted with Native Americans in their life. ... The film also delivers quite a bit of criticism about the numerous Native American stereotypes that is well-deserved, while in the ...

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These views that the first settlers had of the Native Americans influenced the way that many people categorized Native Americans throughout history. ... The settlers did not even give the Native American religions a chance they set out on a mission to save the Native Americans by helping them find their God, they basically were taking away the Native Americans freedom to their own religious beliefs. ... The Native Americans also looked different than the settlers. ... That is one of the major factors in the perspective that white man often has regarding Native Americans, they group all ...

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Ultimately, it was this disagreement that led to the destruction of countless Native American tribes and promoted the proliferation of European settlers in the takeover of America. In order to commune with the spiritual plane, both the Native Americans and the early European settlers used ritual. ... This difference is that the Native Americans tied the beliefs of the supernatural to the environment. In their migration to America, the beginnings of the Native American peoples had little time to think philosophically. ... Even later in history when tribes were established in America there remai...

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Cultural interaction had allowed for the impending impact to be staved off for a little longer – some Native Americans were employed as day laborers by the English, and some indentured servants had fled their English masters to Native American villages. ... Firstly, one must consider the culture and social structure of the Native Americans before they came into contact with the Europeans. ... This separation did not exist to Native Americans – rather, everything was connected and coexisted. ... Although the Native Americans did not technically consider the land to be theirs, here c...

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African Americans, Native Americans, and women during the American Revolution experience a small amount of equality. ... The Revolution held no promise for the Native Americans. Territorial expansion was one problem Native Americans faced during this time. ... Native Americans attempted to retain their identity in spite of the Revolution's promise of a changed nation. ... Native Americans did not experience any benefit as the blacks and women did during this time. ...

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Native Americans occupied the land in North America as far as 15,000-20,000 years ago, there were even bands of these people living there during the Ice Age. ... The American Indian Wars were the set of conflicts between the new American settlers and the Native American people from their initial arrival all the way until as late as 1890. Most of these quarrels were local and compact between small groups of colonists and individual tribes of Native Americans; they were usually over some kind of resource or over the expansion of the population onto already claimed territories. ... In other circu...

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Native Americans lived on this land that we now call America for centuries following their own way of life. ... This changed the Native Americans structure of society and life for the worst. ... An interesting question that comes to mind and brings up an ideal topic for discussion is why did Indians (Native Americans) have trouble understanding Christianity? ... Native Americans already had a civilization of their own, including religious beliefs and practices, that closely paralleled the beliefs and practices of European civilization. ... Native Americans did not understand Christianity since...

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The two clearly split economic systems did not only affect whites, but also other subordinate racial groups as well; for example, black Americans' suffering under slavery, Native Americans' forcible removal, and Mexican Americans' experience of discrimination all have a lot to do with it. ... However, blacks were not alone; Native Americans experienced even worse situations; they were totally excluded from the Anglo world. ... So, the solution was to drive Native Americans, the indigenous inhabitants, away from their native land, all the way to the Indian Territory, which was l...

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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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Sherman Alexie is a prominent Native American writer, filmmaker and poet. He was born on the Spokane Indian Reservation and utilizes his experiences as a Native American on and off the reservation throughout his work to examine the cause and (often negative) effect of stereotypical perceptions of Native Americans, and in doing so, highlights the issues that Native Americans are still currently facing. ... By adopting Blues music, Alexie is also acknowledging the shared history of African Americans and Native Americans at the hands of white men. ... The following line "It's been so lo...

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Native Americans had their sovereignty taken without consent. ... Natives used these as examples of ways of reforming federal Native American policies. ... He said that Four Point funding would allow Native Americans the responsibility to administer aid, instead of being regulated by programs designed by non-Native Americans. Native Americans played a big role in WWII. ... This was seen by Native Americans as inappropriate and wrong. ...

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Another impact on both the Native Americans and the Europeans was the sharing of native crops to each other. ... The horse highly effected the lives of the Native Americans by improving their hunting abilities. ... Europeans unknowingly brought with them many diseases that eventually plagues the Native Americans. ... Also, the ill treatment of the Native Americans by the land hungry Europeans virtually wiped out their civilization. ... Europeans brought the crops of maize, manioc, and sweet potatoes, which they had received, from the Native Americans, to Africa. ...

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Racial disputes largely involved Native Americans, African Americans, and Mexicans, while religious disagreements involved mostly Catholic discrimination and the ideas of strict Protestantism. ... This new concept influenced Americans to start believing they were the only race fit to live and govern the nation of the United States, and this created somewhat of racial discrimination between settlers, African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexicans. It was clear that Americans justified taking away Indian land, and they continuously pushed Native Americans westward in order to extend and expan...

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Reading through this book allows you to see not only how America has become the nation she is today ecologically but it also shows the ecological state of New England during Native American inhabitation and the radical changes that were caused by the European way of life. ... They had never really encountered landscape they had not been "domesticated," where as the Native Americans thrived in such a land. The Native Americans saw their lives in the land as symbiotic relationship meaning that they respected their environment and the laws of nature in all regards. ... The Europeans tho...

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The Spanish grouped all of the natives and forced them to participate in their haciendas. They fought many battles with the native populations and disrupted their previous customs and traditions. ... After being put in camps, however, the natives grew apart from these ideas and wanted the Spanish to leave. ... Because of all of this harsh treatment to the indigenous cultures during the exploration of the Americas, many people with the native roots of the Americas still hold a grudge against other populations. If the Spanish never explored the Americas, the native populations would probably hav...

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