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    Native American Poetry

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    Native American Poetry Native American written poetry has common qualities. A common recurring theme in their writing is nature. These people view nature as a beautiful thing even at the ugliest level there exists. They appreciate all forms of life and have a great deal of respect towards it as well. Native Americans respect nature because they view it as a spiritual thing. Somehow the animals have a certain innocence which the people cannot reach making the animals a sacred part of their

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    Native American Music

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    Native American Music Title of Song: Native American Spiritual Music Style of work: Native American Medium: Flute and drums As we all know Native American music is heavily influenced by many instruments‚ but the rattles‚ drums and the flute are regarded as the instruments that are considered the most important. The piece of music I listened to is titled‚ “Native America Spiritual Song”. The music for this piece is very mellow and relaxing‚ at certain points this piece literally gave me

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    Native American Genocide

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    Zack Siemsen Merri Ferles HIS 202 02-12-13 Native American Genocide The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide states that according to Article 2. “Genocide‚ deems any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy‚ in whole or in part‚ a national‚ ethnical‚ racial or religious group. Such as killing members of a group‚ causing serious bodily or mental harm‚ inflicting the group member lives to cause destruction‚ imposing measures intended to prevent birth‚ and forcibly

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    Cultural Project: Native Americans and Alaska Natives Introduction The outline and presentation for this assignment generally follows the presentations from Giger’s (2009) Application of Assessment and Intervention Techniques to Specific Cultural Groups. There are over 500 Federally Recognized tribes in the U.S.‚ plus some additional tribes recognized by states‚ plus unknown number of smaller unrecognized tribes. Many are also divided into clans and loosely categorized into major groups.

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    Notes on Native Americans

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    women to Spain in the first Indian slavery dealings from North America. Spanish slave trading of Native Americans lasted many years. One ship‚ loaded with 1‚100 Taino men and women‚ crossed the Atlantic to Spain with only 300 Native Americans surviving the journey. The numbers of Native Americans decreased dramatically during the first century after Columbus “discovered” America. Native Americans were captured and transported to Spain as slaves. They were enslaved and forced to work in Spanish

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    Crushing the Native Americans After the Civil War‚ Indians inhabited almost half of the United States. White Americans were urged to move west and settle‚ not taking regard that Native Americans already lived there. By the late 1800s most Indians had lost their land and had been driven onto reservations. Eastern Indians had already been forced to the west. A number of tribes weren’t cooperative with moving onto reservations and changing their customs. This caused many battles between whites and

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    Pontiac Native Americans

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    Ashley Alfisi Connection with the Great Spirit Pontiac was a Native American born to the Ottawa tribe and allied with the French. Being during this time the invasions of land by others was very popular; the thoughts of being conquered were always in the back of Native Americans minds. Once the British came and took over Pontiacs land in modern day Detroit‚ he decided to go on the conquest to look for this Great Spirit. “ How can you hope‚ encumbered as you are‚ to succeed in your design? Go

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    Native American Dwellings

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    Native American Dwellings Katie Nguyen Civics Coach Kelly Period 3 Hundreds of years ago‚ America’s first people lived in a variety of dwellings. Their homes depend geographically from where they live. Each Indian tribe needed a housing that would fit their lifestyle and climate. Because North America is such a big continent‚ each tribe had to adapt to different weather and environments‚ ranging from the Arizona deserts of 120 degree Fahrenheit‚ to the Alaskan tundra of -50 degree Fahrenheit

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    Abstract: This paper discusses the mathematics of the Native Americans inhabiting the vast lands north of present-day Mexico. The mathematical accomplishments of the Central and South American indigenous people are not a focus. The development of the number words‚ the recurrence of certain numerical themes in the art and architecture are noted. The paper presents the numbers and math as required to keep the records of cyclical time and possessions amassed in the cycle. Also discussed is the symbolic

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    Native American History

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    From as early as the time of the early European settlers‚ Native Americans have suffered tremendously. Native Americans during the time of the early settlers where treated very badly. Europeans did what they wanted with the Native Americans‚ and when a group of Native Americans would stand up for themselves‚ the European would quickly put them down. The Native Americans bow and arrows where no match for the Europeans guns and cannon balls. When the Europeans guns didn’t

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