That is one of the major factors in the perspective that white man often has regarding Native Americans, they group all Native Americans into one group of people. ... For example, a common stereotype of Native Americans is that they are all warlike people that continuously and randomly killed white settlers. ... Views and first impressions that early white settlers had about Native Americans became defining components of how some non- Native American people today characterize Native Americans; grouping them together as all one people, feathers and headbands, uncivilized, and uneducated. .....

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Silko describes the affects of traditional, "white", schooling and society, experienced by Tayo's mother before the war had taken place, and how the assimilation and integration of Native Americans to whites had its negative effects not only to the specific person, but to their entire family, as well as white people. "She hated the people at home when white people talked about their peculiarities; but she always hated herself more because she still thought about them, because she knew their pain at what she was doing with her life. The feelings of shame, at her own people ...

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Thomas Whitecloud, an educated Native American, finds himself distant from his people while he and his people are forced to be "imitation white men" (Whitecloud, 3). ... Just as Macedo had to deal with being treated as inferior, Whitecloud also mentions how Native Americans are continuously treated as inferior to the white man, and that they try, to no avail, to imitate and rise to the white man's standards. "... tries to keep his home up to white men standards. White standards. Funny that my people should be ever falling farther behind" (Whitecloud, 3)" In this regard, bot...

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Besides people who were going westward, white manufacturers and hand-craftsmen in the North also benefited from these social developments. ... Also driven by the high profit of cotton trades, white settlers in the South were motivated to grab as much land as they could to produce cotton. ... These people were promised full citizenship and their land ownership by the U.S. government. However, when people from the eastern parts traveled to those new territories and tried to grab their land, many Mexican Americans lost their lawsuits as a legislation passed after the treaty. ... In sum, the e...

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The Revolutionary War provided black people in America with opportunities. ... Although some slaves were freed, white Americans were reluctant to hire them. ... White women also felt the effect of the new ideals that the American Revolution offered. ... In the1780s, white American women gained more advanced education. ... The Revolution gave white women a voice but complete equality was not present. ...

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Indians were depicted as dirty and sinful, they were not viewed as real people. ... In other words, white people viewed American Indians as uncivilized savages because it was convenient for them; it made them feel superior. ... Everywhere white people went they would run into them. ... Dale's policy of giving away free land to settlers encouraged white people to continue to take land that was not theirs, pushing Indians further and further West, away from the land and culture they were familiar with. ... In order to continue making profit they would need more land, and just when the India...

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Alexie uses the powers of dreams in Reservation Blues to portray the oppressive relationship between white people and Native Americans and the continued destruction of Native Americans and their culture. Throughout these dreams Alexie portrays the underhand tactics employed by white people in order to slaughter and oppress the Native Americans. ... Alexie retells this in another of Thomas' dreams where the television is on and showing that white people owned everything: food, houses, clothes, children (Thomas' desire for what he sees as a white man's privilege only serves to sho...

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For the wealthy, white men of the American colonies, the American Revolutionary Period was a time in which many aspects of culture, politics, and society were transformed. ... This hurt their businesses and caused dissent among the wealthier people, especially in New England. ... After winning the war against England, the new United States no longer paid taxes to absent leaders and gained control over its own people, letting its wealthier citizens gain the power they had desired in colonial times. ... Rather than wealthy, white, English men governing them, they had wealthy, white, American men...

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They were strict interpreters of the Constitution and supported a government that represented its entire people, not just the wealthy. In their minds, it was important that all white men have the right to vote, not just the rich white men. ... For white men, Individual political and economic liberties flourished under the Jacksonian democracy. ... However, if one was not a white American male, he or she was not entitled to the fruits given by the Jacksonian Democrats. ... However, the Democrats only saw white males as citizens of America. ...

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Each group has had their own unique languages, familial relationships, social relations, music and dance traditions, they have shared many common experiences over the past 400 years (Grim, 1995).This paper will compare the cultures and histories of African American and Native American people and their long and often bloody interactions with the white majority in America. ... From the earliest white European settlers, the relationship between the native population and the white European population has been acrimonious. ... [T]here they gain a knowledge of how the white man lives and "earns...

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The advocates of the manifest destiny believed that white Americans were special people they believed it was God's will for Americans to populate the continent and spread Christianity. ... The believers of the Manifest Destiny believed White-Anglo Americans was the superior race. They regarded the Mexican-Americans and Native Americans as inferior peoples. ... The expansionism also caused the spread of slavery, war, racism, and displaced native people from their land. ...

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The study focuses upon predominantly Chinese American people, but also discusses the likes of African Americans and Native Americans. ... This was a huge deal because many people in Midwest America had never seen a person of Chinese descent before. ... " (Yep 47) This quote shows how relentless and rude white society used to be back in the 1940's as they consistently attacked the minorities in America. ... " (Yep 58) The players from the Kues were greatly admired by all other Chinese people during their tours across America. ... While these Chinese American players of the Hong W...

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One last misconception is that all Indians dislike white people. I believe this also comes from movies such as the Disney production Pocahontas, which shows white men as the enemy. Though maybe at that time Native Americans were afraid of or did not understand the settlers, I do not think they all hated white men. In fact, I believe that American Indians had similar stereotypes for the settlers and pioneers as we had for them, where white culture may have seemed just as savage as their culture seemed to the settlers. ... If these changes were to take effect, people would be able to tell ...

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Many people thought that this act is the only way to assimilate Indian and enroll them into new culture. ... Background General allotment act was a result of more than 30 years of conflicts between Indians and White Americans. ... Reason of that sequence was that White People started to integrate in places where government was sure that they never will. ... White people were preventing buffalos and Indians from moving freely and roaming through the land.xviii It is obviously a subject for discussion how important was allotment act or how greed were the philanthropists who passed it. ... Obviou...

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But when these diseases were intentionally employed on the Indian people by representatives of the U.S. ... Government committed wide spread genocide on Native Americans in the name of progress and the good of the people. If the needs of tribes interfered with the needs, or even the whims of the white majority, then the U.S. ... But the denial of opportunities and equal rights to the Indian people or any people for that matter based strictly on race is racism at its worst regardless of what the government might call it. ... And in a speech he said "convert him in all ways but color into a ...

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The Native Americans wanted the same as anyone would, peace and freedom for their people. The Native Americans did not consider "white way of living righteous" for them, they were spiritual and had a different outlook on life, and did not want interference from outside world. ... The Black Elk realized in having the power to cure people as few other spiritual leaders could. ... The book shows how spirituality and unity among the people of the specific Indian tribe, Oglala, gave them strength for trying to overcome the people's superiority that spoiled many of the natives" lives. ... The a...

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The Native Americans wanted the same as anyone would, peace and freedom for their people. The Native Americans did not consider "white way of living righteous" for them, they were spiritual and had a different outlook on life, and did not want interference from outside world. ... As a little boy, Black Elk witnessed his village being invaded by Wasichus, a term that was used by Indians to designate the white man, but having no reference to the color of his skin. ... The book shows how spirituality and unity among the people of the specific Indian tribe, Oglala, gave them strength for trying to...

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Democrats encouraged the idea of the common man and believed in the giving power to all white men rather than the prosperous nobles. ... While the system denied many able people the chance to contribute to the government, Jackson believed, "It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes." ... Jackson and his supporters also promoted political democracy because they supported universal white manhood suffrage rather than the old property qualifications. ... Their belief prospered when Vermont became the first state admitted into...

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Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly-growing United States expanded into the lower South, white settlers faced what they considered an obstacle. ... These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers and many other white Americans, were standing in the way of progress. ... They wanted to appease the government in the hopes of retaining some of their land, and they wanted to protect themselves from white harassment. Removal would save Indian people from the depredations of whites, and would resettle them in an area where they could govern themselves in peace. ... He said the Native Amer...

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Within the last decade, a vicious battle has come alive between the Cherokee people and freedmen. ... But the peoples of these continents had many things in common. ... However, there is a history of slavery long before white men stumbled upon the Americas. ... 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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Helen-Jean finds the "easy way" of making money through prostitution, an evil side effect of the white society. ... She didn't really let Tayo learn the stories and ways of the Community of "the people" (as Silko refers to them throughout the novel). ... When Homer marries the girls' mother, he removes himself from his community because he feels his family is white trash. ... The clan story of the Ck'o'yo, the gambler tricking the people into "neglecting their care of the corn fields and their devotion to the corn mother" (Irmer p2) fools the people with promise...

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Socialization is the process in which people acquire the behaviors and beliefs of the culture in which they live (Arnett 100). During this process, people learn things like what is right or wrong, what is real or fake, who is powerful and who is weak. People also learn the values and beliefs of their culture. ... From their European heritage, people of the revolutionary era were brought up to believe in the importance of civilization, Christianity, making profits, and the superiority that came along with having white skin. ... Another example of how American's were brought up thinking ...

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Though a century apart, these actions resulted in segregation of two races of people and were inhumane. ... Foremost, due to much disagreement between the Cherokee Indians and the state of Georgia, President Andrew Jackson signed a policy past by Congress in order to remove the Indians from white settlements. ... For instance, both actions are an example of segregation towards a race of people in America. ... For instance, the white settlers gained the Indians fertile land excellent for cotton, and in California, the fruit and vegetable market lost their largest competitors. ... As Ameri...

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To many Westerners, the name Antigua means adventure, white beaches, blue sea - the stereotype bounty commercial. ... These people died silently, in "a holocaust created by white foreigners and celebrated by their later counterparts as the will of a Christian God." ...

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The United States negotiated numerous treaties which they continuously violated in pursuit of the Indians' lands and assets, and ultimately to impose their will on Indian tribes and people as they seen fit. These actions by the United States reinforce the colonialism theories and the four components of the colonization complex toward indigenous people in the United States. ... 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. ... By the 1920s,...

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