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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First is Thomas Jefferson's view as the early American coming into the Indians native land. ... the seeds of extinction" for Native American culture were sown under Jefferson. ... Jefferson had known and been interested in Native Americans all of his life. ... He discussed the Native Americans with an objectivity that was also rare for his time. ... He had always been interested in Indian folklore and the origins of Native Americans. ...

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Long before the white man set foot on Canadian and Saskatchewan soil, the Indians, or rather the Native Canadians had been living in North America. ... It is believed that the first Native Americans arrived during the last ice age, approximately 20,000 - 30,000 years ago through a land bridge across the Bering Sound, from northeastern Siberia into Alaska. So, when the Europeans started to arrive in the 16th- and 17th-century they were met by Native Americans, and enthusiastically so. ... They believed that the Indian's rightful land belonged to the Queen, and ignored the fact that the Na...

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Massacre of Wounded Knee The reason that it interested me was because in one of my history classes, a student in my class was Native American. ... The Massacre of Wounded Knee signified the end of old ways of living for the Native Americans. ... Many Native Americans would agree that they were manipulated by the military into forced reservation living and now manipulated by the system. ... That is selfish because these people, who oppose to listen to past history of Native Americans, are only thinking about how it can damage America's history. ... In this case, I learned that m...

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Generally very little is known about the terrible genocide done to the Native Americans and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee teaches it. ... Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee gives a detailed account on the terrible genocide done to the Native Americans. ... Native American children had to sit and watch as their parents were being massacred and know that they were next. ... Summary Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is the story of the annihilation the Native Americans between 1860's and 1890's. ... Each story starts out with the Native Americans trying to get along, the English trying to se...

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Westward Expansion The Affect on Native Americans Writer and historian Noel Ignatiev posed the question, "What is the role of westward expansion in American culture?" ... However, from the perspective of the black slaves or Native Americans, the story of our heritage and the subsequent expansion west is much less than heroic. ... By the last half of the 19th century, there was already pressure for the government to free up more land already belonging to Native American reservations. ... By the turn of the 20th century the Native Americans had reached their lowest population in history.7 ...

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The forced integration of European culture into the lives of Native Americans marked the beginning of a trend that could be traced through history to the present day. ... Through European eyes the Native Americans knew nothing of how to live. ... Prescribed protocols were precisely what guided the Europeans in their colonization of America. ... It became evident to the Native inhabitants that the Europeans came to America seeking habitable territory to colonize, not to explore. ... Years before, the English had landed on America and founded Jamestown. ...

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The groups include women, African-Americans, and Native-Americans. ... In the 19th century, Native-Americans had to fight for their power, rights, and land. ... Indian wars broke out between European settlers and Native-Americans. ... Along with women and the Native-Americans, there was yet another group struggling for their rights. ... The Native-Americans did not end up much better than the slaves at first. ...

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There is substantial evidence, however, that the Native American landscape of the early sixteenth century was a humanized landscape almost everywhere. ... Denevan puts forth this argument in his "The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492." ... Post-Colonial Model - This model identified in Sluyter's Colonialism and Landscape in the America's attempts to emphasize reciprocal action and material change in all directions between the Natives, the Europeans, and the landscape. It focuses on the evidence for potentially equal reciprocal interactions among the native, lands...

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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. ... Where he was given a gift from Great Spirits to save the Indian civilization by driving a way the Wasichus from their native land. ... Many people have different views on the persecution of Native Americans, some think that it was all Indians" fault and that they caused their own suffering, which I think is absolutely...

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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. ... Where he was given a gift from Great Spirits to save the Indian civilization by driving a way the Wasichus from their native land. ... Many people have different views on the persecution of Native Americans, some think that it was all Indians" fault and that they caused their own suffering, which I think is absolutely...

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The ensuing centuries saw the vaquero (cowboy) ranching lifestyle absorbed into the various Native American cultures and continued by Anglo settlers who came in masses after the American takeover in the mid-1800s. The faces of the many authentic cowboys working in New Mexico today still strongly represent this historical mix of westerners, who often don't quite manifest into the popular Hollywood image of the American icon. ... But what they don't expect to see are Indians that are cowboys, or Hispanics or African Americans or women or anyone else other than a bow-legged Anglo ma...

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Fur trade was one of the ways that the Americans made their money. ... Jefferson has a specific instruction for Lewis and Clark when they were to run into an Indian tribe. " In all your intercourse with the natives treat them in the most friendly and conciliatory manner which their own conduct will admit; commercial dispositions of the U.S of our wish to be neighborly, friendly and useful to them." ( Barth, 21) The reason Jefferson told Lewis to treat them as people and not savages is because Jefferson felt that the men would be showing the Indians that Americans will treat the native Indian...

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Griswold), served as an example for colonial Latin American Literature. ... Columbus dubbed these and other peoples of the New World Indians', and unlike their North American counterparts (which are now more fairly and politically correct referred to as Native Americans) we still call them indigenous people. ... The second book analyzed for this comparative essay is Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas 1500-1750. ... The geographic setting Is set in both colonial America and their correspondent empires. ... The pirates were mainly runaway men that included criminals, refugees and...

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At the trail of tears native Americans were persecuted against heavily. ... This day started with all the same good intentions of those today but ended with only a few Native Americans signing the treaty which allowing for the removal of all Indian peoples to the west of the Mississippi River. ( Brill, The Trail of tears: The Cherokee journey from home.) ... The supplies that were given had been rejected by the Americans. ... The Americans decided they needed more land. ... Americans moved into Arkansas They ignored the treaties. ...

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Louis with information such as; maps of their route and the surrounding regions; specimens and descriptions of plant, animal, and mineral resources; and information about the native Indians of the west. ... One other man traveled with the group, Clark's African American manservant, York. ... Lewis and Clark's journals of the expedition give a description of the natural resources and native peoples of the west and contain information on many scientific matters. ...

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Before the English arrived in the New world and began creating colonies, the American Indians lived in harmony and peace with natures. The American Indians were skilled hunters, farmers and used everything in their environment for survival or for essential necessities. ... The American Indians never considered the lands their property because it's belong to God and no one have the right to buy, sell, nor own it. ... Hence, American Indians suffrages and nightmares began. ... As a result many Indians fall deeper into poverty, hopelessness, and it brought more confusion between...

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