In the New World, Native Americans had long been developing society and tools at their own pace. ... The established religion of the Native Americans was celebrated and worshipped using art pieces and other physical items, these items served an important purpose in the life of the native people and this connection to a religion other than Christianity impacted their interaction with the Europeans. ... Strong ties and respect for these spiritual art pieces caused the Native Americans to be hesitant to giving up their religion, and this contributed to their interactions with Europeans to be host...

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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. ... Most elements of Indian clothing evolved around their religion. ... They have promoted misconceptions of the Native American's cultural history. ...

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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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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. ... Subsequent laws such as the Indian Appropriations act of 1871 quickly forged and legalized the territories as Indian, gave the Native American citizenship rights, shipped over Indian children to Christian boarding schools to emphasize on the new European religion of Christianity usually with disas...

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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). ... In addition to missionaries forcing religions onto the Native populations, ranchers would often encroach on land reserved for Native American use. ... African American History with Native American Comparisons While Native Americans were fig...

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They felt that the Native Americans form of government, religion, and overall culture was unsophisticated and they felt the need to put there "sophisticated- restrictions on these people. ... When it comes to religion, America was suppose to be a place where one could have freedom to believe in whatever religion or belief that they choose. ... The settlers did not understand these beliefs that the Native Americans had and so they rejected it and tried to make the Native Americans convert to their religions. The religion was foreign to the settlers, so therefore it was wrong and unrefined. ...

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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 migrations of early Asiatic Cultures (the ancient Native Americans in a sense) towards America brought whatever universal concepts of religion the very ancestors of European Settlers had to a certain point. ... 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 remained two groups of Native Americans "hunters and gatherers. ... This monotheism la...

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The land grab and expansion west placed all native Americans into harms way. ... 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. ... The belief that European culture, religion, manifest destiny and the natural superiority of the white settlers lead to the misunderstanding of the native culture, and the near complete destruction. ... This hurts the image of Native Americans, but I still support the issue if it bett...

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These complications dealt with race, religion, and gender. Racial disputes largely involved Native Americans, African Americans, and Mexicans, while religious disagreements involved mostly Catholic discrimination and the ideas of strict Protestantism. ... It was clear that Americans justified taking away Indian land, and they continuously pushed Native Americans westward in order to extend and expand United States boundaries. ... Racial discrimination through minority groups such as Native Americans, African Americans, and Mexicans is one aspect of the injustices dealing with Manifest Destiny....

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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. ... Within this novel Alexie manages to merge together the mythical and romanticized view of Native Americans (although Alexie "has been at pains to deflate just such romantic myths, whether...

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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. ... 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 have been more powerful as a society today. If it wasn't for the Spanish missions in the Americas the catholic...

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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. ... Native Americans played a big role in WWII. ... We have served in order to save our country, our people, our religion, our freedom of press and our freedom of speech from destruction. . . . ... This was seen by Native Americans as inappropriate and wrong. ...

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He claimed to save all men who became lost by the confusion of religion and connection to god, and promised to deliver them to salvation from their lost state of religion. ... This group of religious people is significant in the history of American Religion, in that the founders of this denomination sought out to accept religious diversities, where in surrounding colonies this was highly frowned upon truths (Marty, page 89). ... The Quakers became a significance to Marty in the light of the initial group who stood against the governing religions of that time. ... This form of faith focuses clo...

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Among the colonies established in Mexico, religion and social status played significant roles. ... Culture and religion were a significant part of the colonial era in Mexico. ... Aside from its primary goal of converting the native Americans, the church built schools and hospitals, provided nursing care for the elderly and mentally ill, and established church based schools to convert native American children to Christianity. ... The Mestizos were Mexican born citizens of mixed nationality, with one parent being Native American and the other being of Spanish descent. ... Overall Colonial Mexico...

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Captivity narratives of Americans relate the experiences of whites enslaved by Native Americans and Africans enslaved by Americans. ... " (Rowlandson)  In the narrative, her depiction of the Native American religion; or what Rowlandson perceives as a lack of religion, was directly related to the ideologies of her Puritan upbringings. Furthermore, Rowlandson's encounter with the new or "Other" religion of the Natives caused her to rethink, and question her past; her experiences do not however cause her to redirect her life or change her ideals in any way. ... In many accounts history...

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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. ... Since both races had no form of civilized religion, white Europeans believed Native Americans to be inferior to their own white race. ... In some areas, Native Americans eventually began to absorb the white European culture. ...

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The statement, "diversity rather than uniformity characterizes Latin Americans- is accurate because although there is some sense of commonality among them, whether it be because of their history or religion as Mariátegui suggests, there are still so many varying aspects of Latin Americans to be seen even today. ... On the other hand, during the wars of independence in Latin America, it was very common for Iberians to intermarry with native peoples, some including Indians and Africans. ... Another issue of identity between the two conquests was that of religion. ... It was the primary...

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The Christian settlers thought that Native Americans were savages and that they had very different religious ideas but by comparing a popular Native American creation myth named "The World on the Turtle's Back" with Genesis it is possible to see that both religions are based on the same ideals and values. ... In the Native American tale, the right-handed twin who represents good decides to kill his brother for killing their mother and for bringing evil to the world. ...

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An American Holocaust Introduction Native Americans have been miss understood and ill-treated by their conquerors for over 300 years (Healey, 1997). ... Government on Native Americans. ... Native Americans Indians who survived the biological invasion soon faced armed foes. ... Government committed wide spread genocide on Native Americans in the name of progress and the good of the people. ... The Indian children were given English names, and were severely punished for speaking their native languages or practicing their traditional religions. ...

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In the mid 1500s the spanish expedition ventured into the North American continent and the missionary priests converted native americans into Christianity to any native americans they encountered. ... Eventually Protestant English def. catholic rivals and won most of north america leading to anti - catholicism taking root in american soil. A Christian witness to the native Americans was one of the reasons for establishing Jamestown. The effect of the Protestant Reformation was great influence of religion to the new world. Most importantly, it gave a chance to those who wanted to practice th...

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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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Europeans invaded and controlled much of South America and the Caribbean islands for means of trading, acquiring goods, and expanding their Christian religion through forced conversions. ... The whites who were at the top, next were the Creoles, beneath them were the Native Americans, who were the official wards of the Crown but yet they were still greatly exploited and abused. Mestizos, who are people of mixed Native American and white heritage, and they suffered legal and social discrimination. ... (Encarta) The enlightment questioned political and social institutions like monarchy, religio...

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With increased coercion of Indians into submission towards providing labor for the Europeans, the American Indians are also force into embracing the religion of the Europeans (Hanks, 2006). ... However, the Author also notes that the initial attempts by the Native Indians of America to resist the encroachment into their land are not successful. ... Based on the difficulties experienced by the native Indians of America, resistance is mainly initiated by individuals and tribal chiefs. ... Whereas native America Indians may be used to refer to the general native of America, the Indians exist in ...

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American influence dating back to the mid 1800's, when William Seward succeeded in acquiring the Alaskan state from Russia claiming it a part of America, started the rise to become a modern American empire (Purchase of Alaska). ... Seward also tried to obtain influence further east and increase exchange opportunities as well as spreading the Christian religion into Asia (Purchase of Alaska). ... In the year 1778 a European explorer named John Cook embarked on the Island of Hawaii bringing in the influence of European and American traditions; soon causing disruption, with the influence of ...

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