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American Literature
Period 03
October 02, 2013
Native American Paper Native Americans are known for many different qualities they had as a part of their lifestyle. Native Americans have been living in the Americas for many years. During their time period, we learned so much from them. Most of the information that was found, was by the movie “The Last of the Mohicans” and the three origin myths. There are many different Native American tribes that factor out cultural differences, in which usually includes nature, hybridity, and a culture clash. Nature is one of the main aspects that Native Americans show respect to. In the movie “The Life of the Mohicans” the Mohicans, one of the Native American tribes, show respect to the animal that they killed by giving thank you to him. Sometimes nature can be a bad thing, in which it surrounds the characters and complicates their battles and their chances for survival. In the movie, the Mohicans used nature in order to track their enemies, which in this case the Hurons In the origin myths, nature was what started this world and created mankind. Many Native Americans now in days still show respect for nature. There were many kinds of hybridity shown in the movie. Hybridity is the mixing of separate elements into one whole. Hawkeye is an example of hybridity because white by blood but Indian by habit. In the novel, Cora is a hybrid because her mother was black and her father was white. When nature and culture collide it makes a hybridity, just like what the Mohicans did in the movie. By the end of the nineteenth century, hybridity became very popular by rapid developments in genetic. When the Native Americans lived in the Americas, they were not alone. There was a culture clash between the Native Americans and the Europeans. In the movie, the Hurons and the Europeans did not get along. The Europeans would take by force the Native Americans Most of the Europeans killed the Native Americans for no

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