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    (Faherty) The earliest anyone has proposed the term sacrifice to be used is 1871 as a noun‚ relating to using sacrifices in religious ceremonies: “Sir Edward Burnett Tylor‚ a British anthropologist‚ proposed his theory that sacrifice was originally a gift to the gods to secure their favour or to minimize their hostility.” (Faherty) Another theory of how the word came about‚ again religiously related‚ Faherty also suggests William Robertson Smith’s ideology “that the original motive of sacrifice was

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    The land rights of the American Indians versus The Rights of the White Man. Zoe R. Murphy University Of Phoenix‚ Axia As the Native population continues to grow and create an abundance of resources such as casinos‚ the White Man has found ways to take the land needed to sustain such growth away. The Native American population always has inhabited the land we now live on and we the Americans have come on to that land pushing them into reservations and controlled situations. With the growing

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    After some time passed waiting for the papers to be approved‚ they could finally move to Washington‚ D.C. Life there was interesting for him. The language‚ culture‚ was like an alien to them. Since it was the 1980’s‚ there still wasn’t a lot of immigrants living there‚ so he couldn’t eat the food that he was used to here. Rice‚ bread‚ noodles‚ were some foods he was familiar with‚ but he did try other food.

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    Native American art and its history are fairly new in the museum world. From the beginning‚ their culture as a whole was not understood. Research and study of the culture to fully understand their lives was few and far between. Even Native peoples that lived among us throughout history were the not used for their wisdom‚ advice‚ or involvement in the representation of their own arts or crafts. The value of Native art was always viewed as of lesser value and lacking interest compared to Western

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    Native Indians ancestors who are pre Columbian people‚ were domestic to the land within nation’s boundaries. Native Indians form numerous bands‚ ethnic groups and tribes. The term Native American was adopted by a newspaper as well as by an academic group that hasn’t been included to their other Indian groups. Such as the Alaskan Natives and the Native Hawaiians. Christian missionaries initially ran affiliated or primary after the Indian war the Native American boarding school in which it was established

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    No matter where you look all you see is desert. Your resources are limited. Where will your next meal come from? How will you make a shelter when all you see for miles are dead trees and cacti? This is what it may have been like to live as a Native American nomadic tribe member living in the Southwest. The Apache and Navajo people had to be incredibly resourceful and resilient to live in a region that didn’t have as many resources as other regions. Since the Apache and Navajo were mostly nomadic

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    Native American Literature Native American literature is made up of two different types of literature‚ the oral traditions and the newer written traditions. From these two types are many different styles that make up the many different tribes of the Native American culture. Storytelling has long been an important aspect of all Native American cultures. It is through storytelling that the Native Americans are able to pass down their traditions and cultural identities. Oral traditions

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    Native Americans: A Marginalized Population Vicki Carter The University of Michigan-Flint Native Americans: A Marginalized Population Over the course of time in our country‚ many groups in our society have experienced being set apart from sustainable communities. Among them are the immigrants‚ the homeless‚ the African Americans‚ those with physical or mental disabilities and the Native Americans. According to McIntosh (1988)‚ “Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral‚ normative

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    sounds‚ the Americans wanted to conquer land that was already owned by the Natives. To begin with‚ White settlers began to notice that the west side of the Mississippi river was not the best location for farming. The solution created was to farm on the east side‚ however‚ that was the Native Americans territory. Therefore‚ the plan was to move all Natives to the Plains and bring the settlers into the east to farm. The plan itself was unfair because although it is true the Native Americans believed nobody

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    everyone to create something together.” This perfectly describes Native American music‚ for the drums are the sole basis of the beat and keep the rhythm going. Once the beat gets going‚ everyone can jump in‚ dance‚ chant‚ and create more sound to make one piece of music together as one. The drums carry out the beat throughout the entire chant and keep everyone in time. Victoria Lindsay Levine wrote in her article titled‚ “Native American Music” and says how “sacred narratives describe the origins of

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