Between 1887 and 1933‚ the U.S. government was assimilating the Natives of our country into mainstream society. At that time‚ it was considered a mission and was acceptable compared to today’s standards of racism and prejudice. It was effort by the United States to force the natives from being “savages” and “uncivilized” to being able to function in society. They were required to become the average American or as much as possible. The primary tool use for assimilation was the boarding schools where
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Was Conflict Between Native North Americans and English Settlers Inevitable? Introduction " Until the lions tell their stories‚ the hunter will always be the hero .” History is basically written about the victors. The version that tends to make a group look better is always told. There are many examples in history such as the history between the Natives and English settlers. People may argue how Europeans coming to America‚ invading Native North Americans home
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As an outlet for depression‚ many Native Americans have turned to alcohol. In fact‚ “Native Americans have the highest weekly alcohol consumption of any ethnic group” (Chartier). Alcohol has wreaked havoc on countless Indian communities. For example‚ in The Diary of a Part Time Indian‚ during a short period of time‚ Junior loses his grandmother‚ Eugene‚ and his sister. In Junior’s tribe‚ “about 90 percent of the deaths have been because of alcohol” (Alexie 200). Junior’s grandmother perished when
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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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INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE Native American literatures embrace the memories of creation stories‚ the tragic wisdom of native ceremonies‚ trickster narratives‚ and the outcome of chance and other occurrences in the most diverse cultures in the world. These distinctive literatures‚ eminent in both oral performances and in the imagination of written narratives‚ cannot be discovered in reductive social science translations or altogether understood in the historical constructions of culture in one
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It’s amazing how far America has come since settlers came to her shores. When we first came here‚ were cruel and self-centered. Native Americans became our slaves‚ as did Black Americans and anyone else who wasn’t white. Women were seen as inferior to men‚ and anyone who wasn’t straight or cis were forced to hide who they were for the safety of themselves and for the sake of their relationships with friends and family. Now‚ we’ve gotten better. Women are seen as equal on a legal front‚ slavery is
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it because there were already Indians and other people living there so it wasn’t a “new” world it was just a new unheard-of place that the Europeans had just found. The Indians living in America was not as technologically advanced as the new Europeans who had just arrived and began to settle. All of the different Indian tribes that lived their got food from crops‚ hunting and fishing. They all had their own religious‚ languages and political beliefs. When the Europeans came they how much freedom the
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developed a selection of stereotypes against the Native Americans‚ ranking them as uncivilized and thus making it easier on themselves to lead the culture into their impossible situation‚ where the Natives have no choice but to either fight and lose or sit and do nothing‚ however if assimilation could have occurred through education or social structure the final outcome could have been mutually just for the two civilizations. The early European influences‚ or prejudices directly linked themselves
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In many ways‚ colonists and Europeans acted as agents of change to early America. At the time when Columbus arrived‚ and in the years following‚ the American continent was a type of natural paradise compared to the highly inhabited and structured countries of Europe that explorers had come from. While the abundance of resources did influence the way in which Europeans treated the land‚ the predetermined economic mindsets carried over from a more resource-deprived Europe worked simultaneously to promote
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Life for the African Americans in the Deep South was severe because of the climate and excessive labor. The rice plantations were really far away from each other and most male Africans died‚ so only the newly imported slaves could survive. In the Chesapeake region though‚ the work conditions were much better because they grew tobacco which didn’t need much care. Tobacco plantations were much larger and closer together. Because the plantations were large and closer together‚ it permitted the African
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