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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African Americans were found mainly in the North and South, while Native Americans were sprinkled all over the United States. ... There was not one single kind of Native American, but many. ... One image shows the Native Americans hunting in the open land. ... There was a connection to the earth that the Native Americans felt. ... The Native Americans disguised themselves in the image to look like the Americans or the white people. ...

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Americans are guaranteed certain rights such as life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ... The demographic of white land owning males was only a fraction of the population, causing the representation to be very biased; women, African Americans, young adults and Native Americans were all denied the right to vote. (textbook p.402) Once the Civil War ended the demand for Native Americans to be enfranchised (have the right to vote) began. ... (textbook p.403) Women did not get the right to vote until 1920 with the 19th Amendment in 1920 and Native Americans were not enfranchised until 1924. A ...

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To get to where America is today they had to kill many Native Americans. ... Native Americans were in fact the first people to live in American. ... As they expanded they had to kill off Native Americans to get the land they wanted. To get to manifest destiny the Americans had move westward which led to Americans having to exterminate multiple Native American tribes. Manifest destiny made Americans so hungry for more land and power that the people of America would do any to gain that land in the west, even if it meant killing off the Native Americas. ...

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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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Of these groups, the people that fought hardest for rights were women, Native Americans, and African Americans, though women received a few basic rights, Native Americans were driven off of their land, and most African Americans were still abused as slaves. ... Another group greatly affected by the culture of the 1700's was the Native Americans. ... Unlike women, Native Americans only lost rights and freedoms. ... In 1806, there was a very violent confrontation, causing more and more Native Americans to be moved to unfitting areas of the United States. ... After the Revolutionary War, g...

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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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Native Americans played a big role in American history. ... They then go on to explain in detail what it is that the Native Americans did in history. ... This states that Native Americans really did help the Americans; they just aren't getting any credit for it. ... All the Native Americans really did was protect their own. ... Native Americans weren't just about killing; they also enjoyed making beautiful craft. ...

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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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Under the presidency of Monroe, the Americans were trying to get rid of the Native Americans so it would make sense that they would attack each other. ... Both the American soldiers and Native Americans had accurate costumes and clothing for their time period. ... This film would look more realistic if it took place a couple of decades earlier at the start of the Native American removal period starting around 1830. ... Dunbar had to be peaceful and cooperate with the Native Americans if he were to integrate himself into their culture. ... All the conflict between the whites and Native American...

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Before the Spanish American War, there was the Indian Removal Act which was was a major impact on Native Americans and the United States' Manifest Destiny. ... He did all of this for the land that the Native American's lived on. ... Some 16,000 Native American's were forcibly moved west to what is now called Oklahoma.8 White Americans saw Native Americans as less than civilized, or savage, and they felt superior to them due to racial dominance. ... Racism played a large factor in what happened to the Native Americans and other indigenous peoples of North America. ... The Nativ...

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The end of the encomienda system was the beginning of the first successful and impactful Native American revolt called the Pueblo Revolt. ... The successful uprising of that summer gave hope to many suppressed Native Americans. ... Exploitation of wage labor had also plagued America. ... America had been far from the land of opportunity. ... Men, women, and children of the working class, Native Americans, immigrants, and those who stood out against America's wrongdoings, are all who built America. ...

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American expansion into the Oregon country was a crusade to convert the native population to Protestant Christianity, bring in more American settlers, and to eventually annex the area to America. ... When the Native Americans rejected Christianity, the missionaries spitefully encouraged Americans to settle in the tribes" lands. The settlers brought an epidemic of measles that decimated the native population. ... They justified these claims through supremacist beliefs that since Mexicans were racially "inferior" to Americans, then their claims to any territory were just as insignificant as ...

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American's territorial conquest of Texas, Oregon, and the Mexican war were all perfect examples of how American's took advantage of their Manifest Destiny. First, Americans sought out to expand their territory to Oregon. ... Along their journey, emigrants encountered the Plains Indians who were "a quarter of a million Native Americans scattered between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains" (307). Taking advantage of their manifest destiny, Americans invaded and seized the sacred lands of the original Native settlers, as well as massacred the buffalo population to ...

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Rank 8: American Indians The lowest in rank which who fared the least was the Native American Indians, the first among the American people. ... This clash of cultures between the Native Americans and the western settlers caused a mixed interest in land ownership. ... The constant war between the western settlers and the Native Americans caused many treaties to be signed and caused the creation of the Daws Act, which was the attempt to "Americanize Indians". While attempting to fight with native weapons against a heavily armed American society many to most native's that fought, had died i...

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Our reactions to the Native American issue however was a little less civilized . . . ... This was not a native American practice, who generally did not farm, and so the American settlers believed that the land of new continent belonged to any who wished to "claim" it in proper claiming fashion. ... If applied to a right-wing Christian's thought process in progressive America, Darwin spells certain doom for the "inferior" native American pagans. ... Therefore, a civilized people like the settlers have a right and obligation even to force civilization on people like the native Americ...

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Alexie shows that the Native American's history is more of importance than the white woman's. ... One of the lines that stand out in this poem is how the Native American is drinking a "Diet Pepsi" which is indicating his incorporation of American ideals. ... The reader can infer that the Native American is being narrow-minded and judgmental by considering her an ordinary woman. Alexie describes that the Native American does not feel like he belongs in the American society by saying "The city I pretended to call my home"(17). ... The poem uses tone to express t...

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A Uniquely American Voice As America entered into a generation of native-born Americans, a call for an identity that was exclusively American began to emerge. Americans yearned for a uniquely American expression of themselves through their literature. ... Margaret Fuller was quoted as saying that,It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature?... Philip Freneau genuinely portrayed the American individual in his poetry and helped to develop themes that were uniquely American. ... Freneau was one of many an American who sa...

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African Americans were also undergoing discrimination and a lack of rights. ... Legislations were passed to disfranchise African Americans by robbing them of their freedom and voice in politics. ... Native Americans were also being denied their rights to their lands and were forced to live in reservations. ... Many Americans grew suspicious of corporations and businessmen, fearing price-fixing by all powerful monopolies. ... Reforms were few and corruptions were plentiful, but the confidence of the American people persevered and the optimism they exhibited helped lay the foundation of which th...

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The Quakers built their society on the principles of civil equality apparent in their anti-slave feelings and their pro-native American relationship with local tribes. Some Quakers went as far as allowing natives to watch their children. ... Throughout American history African Americans had been enslaved and mistreated, thought not to be men but property. ... For years black Americans tolerated their status in American society, but with their insurrection came an end to slavery and oppression. ... Throughout early American history women had few rights. ...

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Many questionable events happened in the making of the history of the United States of America. Whether these events, such as the relocation and treatment of Native Americans or the forced slavery of African Americans, were right or wrong, they played important roles in shaping today's most powerful country. ... Eventually, people like Washington, Madison, Mason and Jefferson, did not know any better and thought that whites were supposed to rule over Natives and African Americans, with out ever questioning that particular belief. ... Until later in their life, they did not know any bett...

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A United States of America was created after the victory in the Revolutionary War, but they were more of a States of America as the nation showed several cracks within society by the year 1848. ... However, with the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Native Americans were pushed away. The Native Americans are a part of the United States, their anger and discomfort signifies no unity within nation. ... Groups such as the American Anti-slavery Society began to form. ... The United States of America was affected by the push for equality which showed that the people of America were not on the same pa...

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Amid the close of the 1800s, American society was being molded into an industrial powerhouse. ... Because many Americans blamed this on the economy being controlled by a small number of powerful corporations, the populist movement gained traction by promising to help mainstream Americans financially. ... Native Americans, through the late 19th century, had a growing involvement with blurring the lines between Indian identity and other Americans. ... Along with immigration came many changes and new culture brought into America. ... However, it was a huge advance in the environmental structure o...

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Many American headed west in order to mine for gold. As they made their way to he west coast they often trampled many Native American territories. In the process of trampling through Native American territories, they were often attacked as the Native Americans were trying to live their lives and the whites were invading there land. ... During this time is when the cowboys played a big part in American history. ... When they came to America they were usually poor because they had came from poor counties, and were willing to work on American farms for very low wages. ...

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