The artistic community was called into action, producing whole schools of painting, which glorified the development of the nation. ... The so-called Hudson River School appeared in the mid 1820s. ... The Hunter's Return represents wild woods surrounding a glade where a family seems to be living in symbiotically with the prevailing forces of nature. ... America was still a new country, and many considered it as a Garden of Eden, plentiful and wild. ... As Albert Boime says, "inevitably, the extermination of Native Americans is tied to the conquest of the wilderness and its transformation i...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. In order to give a more accurate report of the American Indian one must look at period before the Euro...

• Word Count: 3899
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• Grade Level: High School

If the public thought that there were not many Indians originally living at the place they now called home, then they wouldn't feel nearly as bad taking over all the land they felt they needed, which in reality was the whole continent. ... Besides the dominant power of the English in the new world, there were other countries that had staked a claim at this wonderful new place full of wild savages. ... This was with no thanks to the French who did not help their so-called friends, the Huron. ...

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His actual name was Wahunsonacock, but the English simply called him Powhatan, after his village, and this name is also used in Disney's Pocahontas. ... In 1607, settlers founded the first permanent English settlement and called it Jamestown, after the then English monarch, King James I. ... The curious English elite was extremely impressed by the Indian girl, whom they called la belle sauvage'. ...

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Native American Voices The book of Genesis V.S. The Cherokee creation myth. In the book of Genesis there was a God that created the earth and heaven. On the other hand, in the Cherokee creation myth in the beginning there is only water and a beetle accidentally created earth. In the Cherokee creation myth the animals created the mountains, valleys, etc. ...

• Word Count: 3640
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School