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    people of Israel. The problems these two indigenous/native people face today are the result of colonization and I believe that if they should claim their rights back to the land in order to prosper their culture and traditions. My discussion of the colonization of Native Americans and Bedouins is in fact

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    with the indigenous Native Americans has been prevalent. The opening quotation emphasizes the idea that our fathers grappled over what to do with the Indians since the founding of our country. Post colonial era Native Americans were discriminated against in a battle defined by “the white man versus the red man”. As American settlers and institutions expanded westward‚ the Indians were pushed aside not only by containing them in reservations but were often disregarded as Americans from the “civilized”

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    Nearly every Native American Indian tribe has experienced some kind of neglect or discrimination. The white man has forcefully moved tribes from their homes‚ broken treaties that were promised to them‚ and senselessly slaughtered thousands of innocent Indian men‚ women‚ and children. This kind of neglect is what led to the Battle of Little Bighorn Creek‚ a battle that is talked about in The Great Plains‚ the book I chose my topic from. The reason this subject touched me personally is because

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    Early in the 1830’s‚ there were about 125‚000 Native Americans that inhabited the areas of the present Florida‚ Georgia‚ Alabama‚ North Carolina‚ and Tennessee which covers millions of acres. The Native Americans and their ancestors had cultivated and occupied these lands for generations. It had been a growing importance to expand the United States of America and to be able to use the resources that surrounded them to grow as a country; cotton for example. For this to occur‚ the lands that were thought

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    soldiers defeat an army of 80‚000 Native Americans? Well in the year 1532‚ a Spanish conquistador known as Francisco Pizarro invaded the New World. He quickly got into a conflict with the largest state of the New World and managed to capture the absolute monarch‚ Atahuallpa. Francisco charged a ransom for his release and even after the ransom was given‚ he killed Atahuallpa. They were defeated and this cycle was continued by more Spanish conquistadors until the Native Americans were completely defeated.

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    The structure of a Native American family is interesting to me‚ regarding the history of elder-women making decisions based on the property handed down from the women of the families. This followed the matrilineal system‚ which is still the basis of today’s equal consideration for both men and women of a family. My plan is that my career will remain in the finance industry. I was a resident Tacoma‚ Washington for a short time‚ where I had been exposed to many people that were demonstrative about

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    Matriarchal Cultures: The Native American There has long been debate among anthropologists about matriarchal societies. But that is a historical result of last 500 years of European military expansion and extermination of native cultures. There are a few societies whose status as matriarchies is disputed among anthropologists and this is as much a debate about terminology as it is about interpreting how another society defines status and such‚ their self-understanding as opposed to our

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    the United States has begun to make amends for the injustices it has committed on other cultures. Today‚ with multiculturalism entering into the classrooms and other realms‚ different cultures are finally getting the attention they deserve. The American idea of cultural and racial superiority began in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with the colonization of northeast America by predominantly Anglo Saxon colonists. Ironically‚ the colonists came to America to escape persecution for their

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    Native Americans Northern Colonists Mid-Atlantic Colonists Southern Colonists West Africans Economic Structure Trade made up most of the economic life of the native Americans. Tribes traded food such as meat and corn. There were times that the tribes traveled open trading routes. There were also wampum jewelry‚ and weapons with each other. There were frequent trades with the Native Americans. This was for furs. The exchange for furs was beads‚ cloths‚ cooking and hunting tools Focused on the fur

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    The Power of the Native American Story Norah AlJunaidi Stephanie Fegan AP Lang and Composition 20 December 2013 The Power of the Native American Story The story is the most powerful tool in Native American culture passed down through generations. Stories connect them to the past‚ the present and their surroundings. However the world is always changing‚ and because of this‚ some Native Americans have lost their connection to their culture. In Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

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