According to the statistic punished by government called "American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month: November 2011", the population of Native American in 2010 is about "2.9 million were American Indian and Alaska Native only, and 2.3 million were American Indian and Alaska Native in combination with one or more other races" (American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month: November 2011). ... Why does the population of Native Americans like this? Where are those Native American? ... In my perspective, I think the American governments were trying to exterminate Nativ...

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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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"In Minnesota, Thousands of Native Americans Protest Redskins' Name." ... . Paul Lukas was covering a symposium about the use of Native American imagery in sports. ... American Indian, Begay who is vice president of the Native American journal Association is worried what the term "redskin " will become. ... "Washington Redskins Feel Heat in Native American Mascot Debate." ...

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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. ... By adopting Blues music, Alexie is also acknowledging the shared history of African Americans and Native Americans at the hands of white men. ... The following line "It's been so lo...

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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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American Native Family Therapy Introduction "Ethnicity is deeply tied to the family, through which it is transmitted. ... Nowhere is this more apparent than in the American Native culture. ... In American Native cultures, however, becoming a part of the family system is not usually possible. ... American Natives believe the spirits of previous generations stay with them forever. Is it any wonder that American Natives do not want to seek treatment from descendants of those who denigrated them so? ...

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Besides the killing of Jewish people in World War II Germany, two other chief acts of genocide, that some may not consider genocide at all, are the death of millions of Native Americans in North America and the neglect of aboriginals in Australia, both by European settlers. ... The government in Australia as well as in North America has also simply tried to get rid of the "aboriginal problem" by having people of native background conform to the ways of the Europeans in a variety of ways. ... Looking at this definition, although many say that the European settlers did not necessarily come s...

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POCAHONTAS: Native American Stereotypes in a Disney Movie 1. ... We will particularly examine how Disney portrays the Native Americans in the movie and whether stereotypes are used. ... Particular attention will be given to the images of Native American women. ... For the purpose of this paper, the storyline of Pocahontas needs to be compared to the actual facts of the Native American girl's life and her encounter with white society. ... This is understandable, since the story dates back to the beginning of the seventeenth century, a time when no written records were kept of events or...

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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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Native American Voices The book of Genesis V.S. ... The Spiritual legacy The Native Americans have had great riches in human and spiritual resources. ... During the early contacts between the Europeans and the Native Americans, the Europeans found the Indians either a brutal uncivilized savage or as a naive child. ... The American Indian heritage will claim its rightful place among the great spiritual traditions of humankind. ... In the American Indian cultures the vision experience served in an especially forceful manner to render transparent to the individual some facet of...

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In the nineteenth century, as white Americans proceeded to build and delineate their nation, they carried on a process they had started as colonists, settling a new world, and transforming its landscape, which had been modelled by Native Americans up to that time. ... It affected the physical context of the American environment and the changing experience of American life. ... Westward movement, which often involved the violent displacement of native people, was stimulated by the concept of Manifest Destiny, the divine right of white Americans to settle the whole North Americ...

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Immigration: Mass Media Influences on the General American Population The mass media industry has influentially shaped American society's behavior on immigration into a strict systematic view that immigration is a necessary tool needed to strengthen the economy, stabilize cultural diversity, and expand collective intelligence. ... Ever since Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, America is constantly inundated with immigrants of various origins. In the beginning, people from England immigrated to America, and then other European countries followed. The American natives were tre...

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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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The Native Americans refer to him as "The Ancient One". ... This is not only disturbing but also insulting to Native Americans. ... To the Native Americans this has been a desecration of their ancestors. ... This was done with little or no care to the Native Americans. ... "(12) The Vermillion Accord set the stage for NAGPRA, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, a federal law committed to the respectful treatment of the Native American dead. ...

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Moreover, many of the same themes and morals transcend both European and Native American oral traditions. ... The moral of the story is the same for both the Native American story and the European story. ... While cautionary tales are prevalent in both European and Native American cultures, so are trickster tales. ... This European fable and the Native American fable have the exact same theme and seek to teach the listener the exact same lesson. ... Thus, cautionary tales are told to both the children of Native Americans and Europeans. ...

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The effects of both of these comings could be felt throughout the continents The differences between the Native Americans and the European colonists were drastic and very obvious from the beginning. Meanwhile, the Dutch influenced almost every aspect of the native African's lives and changed them drastically. ... The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later the Six Nations, consisted of a confederacy of Native American Nations. ... Being such a close and organized group helped the Iroquois to become a powerful Native American nation. ... Unfortunately, other Native American...

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In all, Hawaii has 35 native bird species (reduced from an estimated 140 species before humans arrived) and over 5000 native insects (Wilson 2002, Pimentel et al. 2000). ... Just as it has become clear that Native Americans did not live entirely "in harmony- with nature prior to European settlement, it is clear that native Hawaiians did not live in harmony with their surroundings. ... Many were easily able to replace native species, and today almost half of the free-living flowering plant species in Hawaii are non-native (Wilson 2002). ... The alien organisms mentioned above had a wide range o...

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the reservation radio deejay tells his American Indian listeners as ``Smoke Signals'' opens. ... the reservation radio deejay tells his American Indian listeners as ``Smoke Signals'' opens. ... ``Smoke Signals'' comes billed as the first feature written, directed, co-produced and acted by American Indians. ... Most films about Native Americans have had points to make and scores to settle, like all those earnest 1950s white films about blacks. ... To see the two movies side-by-side is to observe how Native Americans, like all Americans, are not exempt from the melt...

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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 Americans decided they needed more land. ... 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 signi...

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The Plight of The North American Indians The history and culture of the American Indian is sadly misrepresented because of culture biases and inaccurate reports. ... America has much to learn about the heritage of our American Indians. ... America has much to learn about the heritage of our American Indians. ... The impact of the Europeans on the American Indians is beyond description. ... As a result of trade the North American Indians again were the losers. ...

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