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. ... This new chief would usually be either a brother or a nephew, however it would never be the son. ... Being such a close and organized group helped the Iroquois to become a powerful Native American nation. ... Unfortunately, other Native American groups already occupied the land on which they wished to move. ...

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In both novels the decline of the native culture is traced through the downfall of an individual, Okonkwo, in the first novel, and his grandson Obi, in the second. ... Native people of colonised regions were generally regarded as savage heathens by missionaries, but it is evident from Things Fall Apart that complex set of belief were in existence. ... One of these is Okonkwo's son, Nwoye: The hymn about brothers who sat in darkness and in fear seemed to answer a vague and persistent question that haunted his young soul - the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question o...

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• Grade Level: High School

Portugal had been present in Western Africa for several years but in 1445 the King, Henry the Navigator instructed his sailors on their way to the continent to win over the natives so they could purchase human beings to be used as free labour rather than to kidnap them as they had done previously4. ... Africans were believed to have higher levels of strength and 'humour' than European workers or the Native Americans and, therefore, considered the more effective work force in this new industry. As the demand for sugar across Europe soared so did the demand for African slave labour, s...

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In principle, one could have a nephew serve as a substitute: a man's sister's son, in this matriarchal regime, would be given by his uncle in ransom; whence the two Wolof expressions, na djây ("may he sell," i.e., the uncle), and djar bât ("he who can buy back," i.e., the nephew). ...

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Consequently, Christianity was not only turned native in Graeco-Roman cities, but also helped to shape the Graeco-Roman world; conversely the Graeco-Roman world helped to shape Christianity giving it the language and all other creative symbols at its disposal to produce what we practice and discuss today in the sacraments and theology. ... The four subdivide into two close streams - an alternate elder age-set that becomes godfather or patron and that initiates the younger age-set, pairs with the younger group to form a stream; successive patronage is excluded; and so a father will never be god...

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Music had always been a primary component of black South Africa's extended fight against racial desegregation and when the white colonial government instituted the Native Lands Act of 1913, forcing the black peasantry off its own farms and reapportioning less than 15 percent of the country's land to over 80 percent of its native population, the band Caluza's "Silusapho Lwase Afrika (We Are The Children of Africa)" was adopted as an early anthem of the ANC due to its passionate chorus. ...

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In the first stanza, Kipling says, "Send forth the best ye breed-/ Go, bind your sons to exile/ to serve your captives need;". ... The same idea of de-humanization of the Africans is present throughout Heart of Darkness as well, where the natives of the Congo are repeatedly called "savages." ...

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• Grade Level: High School