(Rain 1992) Wild Rice Wild rice is found growing in ponds and swamps and along the marshy borders of streams throughout the central and eastern states. ... The Menomonee tribe was even named for their dependence upon this wild rice food. They called themselves Menomin, or "Wild Rice Men," because they lived mainly on the wild rice of the lakes of their region. ... We prepared wild rice by parching the seeds in a cooler for a short while over hot coals. ... Native peoples recognized the high food value of this plant and many ceremonies were devoted to wild rice. ...

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This misinterpretation of the Native American government led to the belief that the Native Americans ran around wild and lawless without any sense of laws, and led to the expression, "acting like a bunch of wild Indians."" ... Because of these physical differences, and well as the differences in heritages, Europeans began refereeing to all Native Americans as one people and called them names such as "red-skin- or "red race."" ... This process was called assimilation. ...

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This spectacle is called the Beringia. The land bridge was visible and walkable, and the Native Americans chased buffalo and wild life to North America because of the necessity of food. ... The Native Americans had to run and be in shape to hunt the animals of the wild or they would not be very successful in their killings. ...

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When wondering from one place to another they were bound to encounter wild animals that could spread disease or inflict an infectious wound. ... One of his most famous sermons was on called From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. ... I view the Native Americans as being as wild as the sea, it can be admired but it can not be stifled. ...

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For this reason, the community that the Anasazi lived in was called Mesa Verde. ... Another group of Indians called the Pueblo Indians are Indians who live in stone or adobe, dried clay, houses. ... The Hopi also planted cotton and tamed wild turkeys. ... Berries, nuts, and wild plants were important forms of food for the Cherokee. ... A Cherokee Indian named Sequoyah invented a written language called "Talking Leaves". ...

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Indians, before any other human contact, have been the first living creatures that migrated and settled in what is now called the "Americas.... There were the so-called five civilized tribes that were forcibly removed from their lands by order of newly sworn-in president Andrew Jackson and his militia troops. ... White people disliked the Indians; they thought they were ignorant, rebellious, reckless, wild, and nasty creatures that didn't deserve the lands on which they were living. ... After the awful path that they called the Trail of Tears, Indians thought that there was some sor...

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Alexie is the author of Reservation Blues, and with his aid, his book was turned into a movie which was called Smoke Signals. ... It showed Indians always as the antagonist living wild in nature with the mind set of always killing Americans. ...

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Believing that he had landed in the Indies, a group of islands located to the east of the Asiatic coast, he called the people whom he saw first in the new land, the Indians. ... On the land of Manhattan, modern New York, there were a lot of beavers, deer, foxes, wild turkeys. ...

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According to Dee Alexander Brown, author of Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, suggests that many of the early protests which took place in 1890 was due from early preaches of an Paiute shaman called Wovoka. ... They were always referred to as "wild and crazy," because their culture was "different" and "unwanted" near their formed communities. ...

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Compare/Contrast Essay Thomas Jefferson/William Apess What do you think when you see someone who isn't like you? Are you quick to judge and think that you are better than them just because they are different? Well the early Americans thought that they were better than the American Indians, from religion, to race, to their whole lifestyle. In this paper are two views from the opposing sides, both arguing from their good thoughts to their bad. First is Thomas Jefferson's view as the early American coming into the Indians native land. ...

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• Grade Level: High School