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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Before Europeans journeyed to North America and brought African slaves with them, Africans and Native Americans actually had a lot in common. ... Soon, Europeans and Native Americans were at arms almost constantly. ... Obviously, Native Americans were captured by the Europeans and were sold into slavery. ... The earliest known record of African and Native American contact was in April of 1502 (Halliburton). ... In some areas, Native Americans eventually began to absorb the white European culture. ...

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American Native Family Therapy Introduction "Ethnicity is deeply tied to the family, through which it is transmitted. ... Nowhere is this more apparent than in the American Native culture. ... In American Native cultures, however, becoming a part of the family system is not usually possible. ... American Natives believe the spirits of previous generations stay with them forever. Is it any wonder that American Natives do not want to seek treatment from descendants of those who denigrated them so? ...

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From the arrival of European explorers into the, "New World," Native American tribes were brutally killed and forced out of their own land. ... The arrival of Europeans to the Americas in the seventeenth century marked a major change in the natives' society and culture. ... In an effort to obtain these lands, native tribes were often victimized and discriminated. ... Tecumseh, who was a Native American leader, opposed this invasion, and organized an Indian Confederation. ... The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of Native American tribes following the Indian Removal Act o...

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Many Americans point to the high Mexican-American drop-out rates and the low number of Mexican-American professionals as a confirmation of this stereotype. ... Without the use of their native language, they don't have a base to build on."" ... Since the implementation of the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, school districts across the nation have created programs that allow non-English speaking students to participate in intensive English language courses while learning other subjects, such as math, history, and science, in their native languages. ... The goal of bi-lingual education,...

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In the nineteenth century, as white Americans proceeded to build and delineate their nation, they carried on a process they had started as colonists, settling a new world, and transforming its landscape, which had been modelled by Native Americans up to that time. ... It affected the physical context of the American environment and the changing experience of American life. ... Westward movement, which often involved the violent displacement of native people, was stimulated by the concept of Manifest Destiny, the divine right of white Americans to settle the whole North Americ...

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Classroom of America 2 Classroom of America: Inequality in the Educational System The United States of America has long been referred to as the "land of the free,"" a place where "all men are created equal."" But how united is America in the classroom? ... Motivation and Classroom of America 3 personal achievement dictate success. ... Native Americans are described as "filthy,"" "murderers,"" and "savages;- Chicanos are presented as lawbreakers and bandits; African-Americans are usually shown in low status roles, neglecting their many contributions (...

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The Native Americans refer to him as "The Ancient One". ... This is not only disturbing but also insulting to Native Americans. ... To the Native Americans this has been a desecration of their ancestors. ... This was done with little or no care to the Native Americans. ... "(12) The Vermillion Accord set the stage for NAGPRA, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, a federal law committed to the respectful treatment of the Native American dead. ...

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In fifteen months as much as a quarter of the American country had heard his message. ... I find Whitefield to be significant in this point of American religious history because it opened the eyes of thousands of people. ... This constant reference illustrates a sense of respect for the groups attempt to start and settle within American. ... This faith was introduced to American's as the European settlers came to the new land, and conquered specific areas (Marty, page 38). ... Due to the Church of England belonging to the Protestant faith, and with its colonization in the America's, ...

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When Americans traveled to Africa to buy its people they did so because African's had strong bodies that will provide the labor plantation owners needed to sustain the American economy. ... When they arrived on American soil in 1839 they were technically free people, and that's the technicality that won them their case. ... Some law officials tend to fear the African American race because they are ignorant when it comes to the logistics of crimes. ... Reading the government's apology in class to the Native Americans still shocks me because it seems as if the government has yet t...

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America's imperialist tendencies already were manifested in the subjugation of various Native American tribes and a key piece of legislation that would help determine US foreign policy for years to come and have repercussions to this day. ... When Costa Rica declared war on Nicaragua, Walker found that much of the native population had rebelled to join the Costa Ricans and suddenly found him outnumbered. In a second Battle of Rivas, Costa Rican and native Nicaraguan forces under the command of Costa Rican president Juan Rafael Mora routed Walker's disillusioned and disorganized merce...

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These tropes can be seen throughout many of African American works of literature. ... Dubois and is defined in the focus of African American literature and the African American experience as "an individual whose identity is divided into several facets.... African Americans have the task of taking the two selves, the African and American, and combining this person into one. ... Like African Americans, these natives search for identity and live with double-consciousness throughout their lives. ... Among African Americans, the concept of identity is integral to race....

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Another Issue surrounding whether it is ethical or unethical to hire illegal immigrants is whether or not they are taking American jobs away from native-born citizens. ... Most people would consider it to be unfair if they had to compete for a job in their native country with someone who was not only foreign, but also unauthorized to work there. All else equal, such as qualifications and willingness to work, people would agree that the native should be hired over the illegal immigrant, as it is his right as a citizen. In a CNN Money article entitled "Illegal Workers: Good for US Eonomy&...

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However, as more Americans go to Mainland China to take employments, more Chinese and Americans are working next to each other. ... "Really, we are continually searching for unknown relish which sutaible Chinese clients and we discovered some native sustenance is very likeable and favoured by Chinese individuals. It would not be simple for KFC to prospered around the world, if it introduced the American relishes without giving any thought to the diversified cultures and traditions of community purchasers in different nations." he said (American Fast Food in Chinese Market, 2009). ... (America...

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A quick laundry list of the minorities in the United States being under-represented might read as such: African-Americans, Women, Black Women, Hispanics, Gays and Lesbians, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders, Indians (Native Americans). ... We now examine some of those histories in trying to answer why America's Congress does not look like America's people. ... The Senate's fair-skinned minority population stayed at three: Hawaii's Daniel Akaka, a native Hawaiian; Daniel Inouye, an American of Japanese descent; and Colorado's Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a Native Amer...

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In all, Hawaii has 35 native bird species (reduced from an estimated 140 species before humans arrived) and over 5000 native insects (Wilson 2002, Pimentel et al. 2000). ... Just as it has become clear that Native Americans did not live entirely "in harmony- with nature prior to European settlement, it is clear that native Hawaiians did not live in harmony with their surroundings. ... Many were easily able to replace native species, and today almost half of the free-living flowering plant species in Hawaii are non-native (Wilson 2002). ... The alien organisms mentioned above had a wide range o...

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The internment of Japanese Americans was necessary in order to "prevent " domestic espionage/sabotage and more importantly, provide a sense of security and safety among the American population. ... These people, two thirds of whom were born in the United States and thereby native citizens, were forced to evacuate their homes, abandon their livelihood and essentially leave everything behind. ... He says, "There was no freedom, no privacy and no America. ... For the Japanese-Americans, the question now became where to go from here? ... The most notable and impactful Japanese organization founded...

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When the situation arose that African slaves didn't adapt to the conditions properly, Native Indians were forced to labor. ... The church had a dual role in Latin America. ... From an early point in the history of Latin America, the regions have enjoyed a certain level of autonomy. ... As stated earlier, the Latin American economies were based on mining and agriculture. ... During the nineteenth century, many Latin American countries gained their independence. ...

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When one refers to the eighteenth century, however, he must realize that there were many major cultural, religious, and moral differences between colonial Americans of different regions of the newly discovered land we now call the United States of America. ... The communities of colonial America varied tremendously as well. ... The people of colonial America, and the areas in which they lived have been classified into three major regions of colonial America: the North, the Middle region, and the South. ... As the eighteenth century went on, it became more and more difficult, however, "to su...

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However, with this said, South American producers frequently change their tactics and adapt to the route with least resistance. ... There are several factors that made West Africa a prime region as an intermediate between South America and Europe. ... The 10th parallel, or "Highway 10", is the shortest route from South America to Africa. ... " In recent years, South American traffickers have relocated a share of their wholesale distribution to West African countries. ... Once the drugs reach West Africa, it is then transported to markets in America and Europe, similar to cocain...

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Africans were transported to America to be sold throughout the continent as slave labourers. ... Portugal had been present in Western Africa for several years but in 1445 the King, Henry the Navigator instructed his sailors on their way to the continent to win over the natives so they could purchase human beings to be used as free labour rather than to kidnap them as they had done previously4. ... That being the Portuguese settlers in the Americas or the "New World" were given loans with easy repayment and interest plans to buy more slaves and develop sugar plantations. Africans were...

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Likewise, American history and its immigration policy are the basis of the modern America. ... But, he also seeks to highlight the attitude of the native population towards international immigrants that change as political policy changes (Ewing, p 2-4, 2012). ... For example, In 1970's Americans faced labor crisis and millions of African slaves were brought in the United States. ... In brief, Castles and Miller have explained the impact of immigration among the different regions in chapters 5-7, "Migration to Europe, North America and Oceania since 1945," "Migration in t...

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America had won! ... No one told students to wrap themselves in America flags or dress in our national colors. ... To resist this impulse would have seemed un-American, or worse, pro-terrorist. ... If this is our response to terrorist acts, how can America, as Ivie asks in Democracy and America's War on Terror, "disentangle itself from this self-perpetuating, self-defeating, dangerously escalating cycle of violence" (138)? ... The Marathon Monday bombing was the first major terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11. ...

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Not surprisingly, it was a Native American tribe called 'Lenapes ("the people")'4 who began settling New York City in the middle of the 14th century. ... New Amsterdam, the original Dutch name before the English captured and renamed it New York in 1664, was the center trading post between the colonies of America and Europe. The British remained in control of New York for approximately two hundred years until they were forced out by the Americans in 1776 near the end of the Revolutionary War. After the battles of the American Revolution ceased it was time to rebuild. ... B...

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To understand the process of assimilation a person must understand history and it affects colonization on native culture. ... The relationship had now also become a paternalistic one with legal justification in the British North American Act 1867, which took away "their independent status and made them wards of the Federal Government." ...

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