The white people did not understand where the Indians were coming from. The Indian perspective was a lot different than how the white people thought about land. Canassatego, leader of the Onondaga nation says, "the white people think we do not know the value; but we know that the land is everlasting" (Small groups 2). Canassatego is telling us that there is so much value in land, the white people will never understand the way that the Indians see their land. ... The Native Americans disguised themselves in the image to look like the Americans or the white people. ...

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"(276) In the story, white people are used to describe this quote, as they are what civilization is; the narrator describes them as "always dissatisfied"(277) and always wanting "us to be like them"(277). ... Because of civilization these people are robbed and ignored of their desires; they become hollow and shallow. ... Whitecloud uses this situation of a Native American in White society as an example showing the differences between civilization and nature. ... In civilization people find beauty in conformity. ... "(276) The psychological impact even affects mi...

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In The Red and the White by Andrew Graybill, tells a story of loss and finding one's place in the world for those of mixed ancestry. ... On January 23rd of 1870, Horace kill his mother's people along side other white Americans. The Marias Massacre led to the death of hundreds of Piegan people (Greybill 147). ... It opened up reader's minds on exactly how people of mixed families were looked upon and mistreated. ... Greybill writes an interesting story about two sides of America at the time, the Red and the White. ...

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The Cherokee Indians is one of the largest groups of Native American people. ... They were settled people whose land used to cover all of the southern Appalachians highlands, this covered Virginia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. ... In 1839, the Cherokee Indians with the help of Kickapoo and Shawanee Indians fought for their lands against the white settlers of northeast Texas. ... Cherokees lived in Texas since 1807; these people were an offshoot of the Cherokees from the Arkansas settlement. ... Due to this, the Texans told them that they would attack, and those wh...

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Her fear of white people gave way to her anger for what they had done to her and her family. ... During the resolution, Ayah discovered that her own feelings were changing towards the white people. ... She lived most of her life afraid of white people. ... The white people eventually began to fear Ayah and the Native Americans. ... At first Ayah, like the Native Americans, was afraid of the white people. ...

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Some people are born into different worlds and many times they are not truly accepted into either. ... But these people were treating his people like animals.... Many people may not know that the Cheyenne resided in Colorado. ... After the massacre he changed his view on white people and the Cheyenne part of him became all he was. So he fought alongside the Cheyenne in battles against the white people. ...

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Timmons is one example of a bad white. ... The white commander towards the end of the movie is another example of a good white. ... A person who grew up with the cultures of white people would maintain those beliefs through adulthood. ... He had known how white people hunted, but acted shocked by seeing the wasted buffalo. ... All of that happened a long time ago, and the white people that are alive today are not responsible for their ancestor's actions. ...

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The early white settlers met their growth with an ever increasing hunger for land, and resources. ... These attempts only ignited feelings of hostility and bitterness in white settlers. ... The Cherokees became a nation as they created a constitution and a class rank of people. ... Cass states, "A barbarous people, depending for subsistence upon the scanty and precarious supplies furnished by the chase, cannot live in contact with a civilized community." ... Indians were hired to fight against Indians, and many of our people destroyed....

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The dark skinned uncivilized people needed to be helped by the white man. ... The white American cannot accept the notion of black people, that were considered inferior, to be socially equal. In the same time, black people desire to better their lives. ... His views of accommodation are welcomed by the white people and even praised. ... s views offer the white the rationale they are willing to accept....

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Then the white man became greedy and selfish. ... The goal in which he strived to achieve was that of a harmony between the white man and his people. ... Also he stated that the Native American people were gaining even stronger resentment that would be branded into generations to come. ... And in turn continued resentment of the white man. ... As seen the Native American people fought hard to achieve there goals. ...

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Utley in 1963 "claiming that God had forgot the Sioux people." ... The white men looked at the people and viewed their cries not promoting a Savior, but promoting war. ... By using this quote, Brown opens up a field of emotion creating a sense of sadness in the reader when thinking upon the native people. ... The white men were ordered to bring the natives to a prison camp where they were to be held due to American treason "remember that Big Foot immediately raised the white flag the moment they set eyes on the white settlers. ... This book truly has the power to not only emotionally...

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That is one of the major factors in the perspective that white man often has regarding Native Americans, they group all Native Americans into one group of people. ... For example, a common stereotype of Native Americans is that they are all warlike people that continuously and randomly killed white settlers. ... Views and first impressions that early white settlers had about Native Americans became defining components of how some non- Native American people today characterize Native Americans; grouping them together as all one people, feathers and headbands, uncivilized, and uneducated. .....

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They were skilled in the art of white civilization. Many had intermarried with white wives, lived in white man's houses, and had adopted the white man's dress. ... The white settlers were already emigrating to the Union, or America. ... President Andrew Jackson and the government had to find a way to move people to the West to make room. ... While Jackson had accomplished a great goal by reducing the national debt, the people and the progress of Americans suffered too greatly. ...

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Life for the Indians was never easy, and it only became worse as the white man moved into their areas. ... The American Indian Movement has organized communities and created opportunities for people across the United States. ... Indian people were never intended to survive the settlement of the New World. ... AIM became a vehicle to help develop partnerships to address the needs of the Indian people. ... It provides a way for the white man to honor the cultures of the original American Native....

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Because he's part white. ... (57)" The discrimination that Tayo as well as the rest of the Laguna people receive also becomes apparent when Tayo mentions to his friends, "Don't lie. ... All of a sudden the man at the store waits on you last, makes you wait until all the white people bought what they wanted.(42)" The fact that he does not belong in either world further impacts his ability to come to terms with the deaths of Rocky and Josiah. ... The old Laguna ways have little effect on Tayo not only because he is half white, but because he is a man of the modern white world. ...

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Many white women thought that he was captured by the Indians because his skin was so light. ... During his childhood, Curly saw the Indians betrayed by the "white people" in many ways. Curly comes to the conclusion at a young age, that he cannot trust the white people. ... All of these things were slowly destroying the world that Curly and his people lived in. ... Crazy Horses little girl eventually dies of a "white mans" disease. ...

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The Indians and the white men would unit to make peaceful treaties. ... The Shawnees" lives were simple and they were spiritual people. ... The white hunters wiped out most of the wildlife, forcing the Indians to start using more modern, "white man", ways of hunting. ... Materialism was another problem the Indians, whom in the past were communal people, had to face. ... The frontiersmen also introduced the Indians to whiskey, which paved the way for alcoholism amongst the tribes" people. ...

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Silko describes the affects of traditional, "white", schooling and society, experienced by Tayo's mother before the war had taken place, and how the assimilation and integration of Native Americans to whites had its negative effects not only to the specific person, but to their entire family, as well as white people. "She hated the people at home when white people talked about their peculiarities; but she always hated herself more because she still thought about them, because she knew their pain at what she was doing with her life. The feelings of shame, at her own people ...

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Thomas Whitecloud, an educated Native American, finds himself distant from his people while he and his people are forced to be "imitation white men" (Whitecloud, 3). ... Just as Macedo had to deal with being treated as inferior, Whitecloud also mentions how Native Americans are continuously treated as inferior to the white man, and that they try, to no avail, to imitate and rise to the white man's standards. "... tries to keep his home up to white men standards. White standards. Funny that my people should be ever falling farther behind" (Whitecloud, 3)" In this regard, bot...

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Besides people who were going westward, white manufacturers and hand-craftsmen in the North also benefited from these social developments. ... Also driven by the high profit of cotton trades, white settlers in the South were motivated to grab as much land as they could to produce cotton. ... These people were promised full citizenship and their land ownership by the U.S. government. However, when people from the eastern parts traveled to those new territories and tried to grab their land, many Mexican Americans lost their lawsuits as a legislation passed after the treaty. ... In sum, the e...

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With the arrival of the "white man" many things changed for the indigenous people of this land. However, the Native American's influenced the white men in more ways than many realize. ... Even though the indigenous people suffered great loss in land and culture their pride and traditions live on. ... In most of his works he tried to bring Indian and white cultures together. ... This includes short stories about her people. ...

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White men still dominated the United States, and they often ruled with an iron fist. ... The last group greatly affected by a culture of white, male power was African Americans. ... There were a few free African Americans who fought for the freedom of their people their entire adult lives. ... Some Christians believe that giving people these services would be going against their conscience, and therefore going against their God. ... This was a time of change, and the culture of white, male supremacy was not ready to let that happen. ...

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Most people were distrustful of the bank, as it had enormous power to ruin state banks and was basically unresponsive to the people's needs. ... Jackson was pushing for the people of this country! ... Arguably, white expansion was not to blame. ... A People and A Nation: A History of the United States. ... A People's History of the United States. ...

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There are only a few of their people left and they must try to keep them alive. ... While comparing the white manview to the Indians one can see the difference. ... A fact that was commonly over looked by most people of that time. ... They treated them like animals and did not, in any way, show respect for their people or their way of life. ... It is quite disgusting to see one group of people be so uncaring, deceitful, and evil. ...

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Gloria Jahoda, the author of The Trail of Tears talks about how Indian populations dropped and how white people are the ones responsible for the drop of their population. The white men are not responsible for the drop of the Indian population. ... Johoda is making excuses for Indians because Indians let the white man take over their lives and life style. Indians would do everything that was asked of them by the white man instead of standing up for themselves. ... So the Choctaws gave in and again let the white man take control of them. ...

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