Stanford Ceaser Ms. Lucik 11 November 2014 English 102 The Name Game Ask any sports fan this question, what is your favorite day and they would most likely reply its game day. Sport fans show their pride in their sport teams by wearing their colors, singing chants about them or most commonly shouting their team names to pick at fans of other teams and rivals. If your favorite team's name is influenced by Native Americans then you would not want to shout that to anyone. In society today the teams that are named in respect of Native Americans are under fire, especially if you ar...

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Chief Black Hawk of the Sauk Indian tribe, strongly opposed the conquest of his people by the United States military in their attempts to open the frontier to a steady wave of settlers. He sees the white Americans as selfish people, as opposed to the Indians who shared what they had with others who were less fortunate. ...

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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. ...

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For the most part, views of Natives were merely misconceptions and stereotypes: they were seen as foreign. ... Upon seeing the natives' way of life and culture, Westerners viewed them as savages and barbarians, the, "others," (Staszak). Indians were depicted as dirty and sinful, they were not viewed as real people. ... In other words, white people viewed American Indians as uncivilized savages because it was convenient for them; it made them feel superior. ... Tecumseh, who was a Native American leader, opposed this invasion, and organized an Indian Confederation. ...

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Within this novel Alexie manages to merge together the mythical and romanticized view of Native Americans (although Alexie "has been at pains to deflate just such romantic myths, whether steward of the earth, stoical warrior, shaman or savage") with a more realistic, and perhaps somewhat depressing, account of Native Americans regarding matters such as racism, religion, the commodification of Native American culture and life on the reservations including alcoholism and health services. ... This lack of Native American presence in mainstream culture also reflects Alexie's perso...

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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. Meanwhile, this lan...

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