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. ... Today, Native Americans are as entrenched in the community as much as almost everyone else is. ... Is it fair for Indian Americans and the descendants of the great Native American nations, be granted sovereignty within the borders of the USA? ...

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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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Throughout North America the tribes and cultures of Native Americans varied according to their geographical location. ... Despite the Native American's resistance the Spanish ultimately prevailed. ... As well as, French Colonists in present day Canada and the allied Native Americans. More often than not, the battles that ensued were more harmful to the Native Americans. ... The Huron Confederacy was a local Native American tribe. ...

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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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Today, Native Americans are citizens of the United States. ... In those days, about a million of Native Americans lived in North America (Brookeman, 2005). ... American Indians, or Native Americans first came to North America during the last ice age. ... The new diplomatic agreements poorly represented interests of Native Americans if at all (Revolutionary Limits: Native Americans, 2015). Thus, American Revolution had a great impact on Native American population. ...

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These views that the first settlers had of the Native Americans influenced the way that many people categorized Native Americans throughout history. ... The settlers did not even give the Native American religions a chance they set out on a mission to save the Native Americans by helping them find their God, they basically were taking away the Native Americans freedom to their own religious beliefs. ... The Native Americans also looked different than the settlers. ... That is one of the major factors in the perspective that white man often has regarding Native Americans, they group all ...

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The Native Americans' perspective on ownership directly opposed the perspective of the English colonists. The Native Americans learned to adjust to living a life of complete mobility. ... The Native Americans owned only necessities for survival and nothing more. This aspect of the Native American lifestyle created an ideal among the English colonists that the Native Americans were poverty ridden and directly relatible to the "English beggars " that they remember. (55) But in reality, the Native Americans were not interested in any type of land ownership, just where they were to settle nex...

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Ultimately, it was this disagreement that led to the destruction of countless Native American tribes and promoted the proliferation of European settlers in the takeover of America. In order to commune with the spiritual plane, both the Native Americans and the early European settlers used ritual. ... 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 remai...

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Cultural interaction had allowed for the impending impact to be staved off for a little longer – some Native Americans were employed as day laborers by the English, and some indentured servants had fled their English masters to Native American villages. ... Firstly, one must consider the culture and social structure of the Native Americans before they came into contact with the Europeans. ... This separation did not exist to Native Americans – rather, everything was connected and coexisted. ... Although the Native Americans did not technically consider the land to be theirs, here c...

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In return, the Native Americans were "sentenced" to the American wasteland, better known as Oklahoma. ... How did the Native American land and way of life come into jeopardy? ... Armed Native Americans killed as many as 1000 English. ... Therefore, the natives fought against the American patriots. ... Where were the true Americans-Native Americans during all this colonization and settling of the Americas. ...

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They have not seen a Native American before. ... They were very ignorant of Native American culture. ... When the need for Native American's help ended the Pilgrim's began to treat the Native Americans with less and less respect. ... The Pilgrims sometime took land from the Native Americans by taking advantage of the Native Americans. ... Even Native American translators would use their a...

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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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The Redskins believe its name honors Native Americans, and has for the past sixty seven years. ... Just an image of a large Native American face. ... Although some might object that Mascots and logos are not meant to be offensive, but to entertain the audience and honor Native Americans, I reply that it mocks Native American tradition and culture. ... By making Native American mascots, they are not honoring them, they are mocking them. ... Not all Native Americans care if the Redskins change their name, although Sports Illustrated reported that eighty four percent of Native Americans polled ha...

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The offenses committed against the United States, including; attempts to restrict maritime trade, the impressment of American seamen, and the support of Native American resistance to western expansion, were major provocations for declaring war against Great Britain. ... " Another area of conflict between the U.S. and British was the British support for the Native Americans in the Northwest. ... The British had a peaceful trading relationship with the Native Americans and were basically allies with them. Native Americans, under the leadership of Shawnee chief Tecumseh, had begun defend...

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Reading through this book allows you to see not only how America has become the nation she is today ecologically but it also shows the ecological state of New England during Native American inhabitation and the radical changes that were caused by the European way of life. ... They had never really encountered landscape they had not been "domesticated," where as the Native Americans thrived in such a land. The Native Americans saw their lives in the land as symbiotic relationship meaning that they respected their environment and the laws of nature in all regards. ... The Europeans tho...

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I chose the exhibit showing details and paintings of the Native American time Periods. ... At the beginning, the Native Americans had very little ownership of anything. ... The mounds the Native Americans built were burial mounds for people who have died. ... The technology for the Native Americans begins to grow with the help of the white man. ... The Native Americans were overruled by the white men, and were forced west. ...

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Chief Joseph also raise the issue of equality of Native Americans and unrighteousness that they are witnesses. ... So as we can easily compare: in 1881 Native Americans held 155 million acres, in 1900 they retained almost half of that. ... They were fully supported by Bureau of Land Management in selection of the lands that are based on the best interest of Natives. ... Money from selling the former lands of American Indians to White settlers will be spend in future for teaching young Natives and for ideas connected with improvement of Indians life. ... Previously said act was focused on &quo...

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They have treated Native Americans unjust for centuries. ... These Native Americans were kicked out of their land without being able to take anything that they owned and never got a chance to return. ... Under the guard of the white civilized American soldiers, thousands of native tribes including the Cherokee took the deadly journey to an uncertain future in the west. ... Native Americans nation was being seen divided once more, the fact that some Indians, those Indians, those who were once part of the treaty party also owned slaves. ... The lands of Native Americans were struggling to rebui...

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Within this tale, there is always the mention of the Native Americans, the ones who taught us to farm and understand the ways the North American lands worked in comparison to European ones most of the travelers had previously been accustomed. ... What right did we have to take that land, when it was owned by several Native American tribes whom travelers, hunters, and journalists transformed from human beings with various cultures into savages all because of the different ways they lived, their speech, their styles of clothing, and probably more so, their skin color. ... African Americans show ...

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There is only an emphasis on the fact that Americans pioneered America, and that is the spirit that continues to go down the generation. Many sports teams, for example, use the term Native American, without educating what true meaning or the history of Native Americans mean. ... We teach and commemorate the Civil rights movement and racial discrimination, and I believe the history of the Native Americans should be emphasized as just as important piece of history. ... There is a heavy emphasis on patriotism and security in America. ... I believe that America's pro-sports are over comm...

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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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