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    Plain Indians

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    corners. c. The Indians had little bit of furniture. Their beds were made from buffalo robes‚ skins with the hair left on. They also had back rests. Food‚ clothes‚ and belongings were stored in parfleches. A parfleche was a pouch made of buffalo. d. . They also built wigwams. The wigwams protected the teepee from rotting. The wigwam was used to store food. IV) Religion A) The plain Indians had many religions. There are polytheisms. Animist was important to the Plains Indians life. They believe

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    Cowboys and Indians

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    COWBOYS AND INDIANS 1. "Cowboys and Indians" is a short story written by Lorien Crow in 2008. We are in New Mexico; it’s a warm day in February. The narrator is a young girl/woman‚ and she is at her grandmother’s funeral. She is old enough to attend this funeral as an adult‚ and she is expected to be there to shake hands with the last people leaving. But she still feels like a teenager that needs to escape. This longing to escape drives her to call her rebellion cousin‚ David. Together they ride

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    Indian Cinema

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    movies just like there are theaters that in America that show Bollywood movies. Bollywood is known as the nickname for the popular Indian cinema industry. It gets its name from mixing the two names Bombay and Hollywood. Bombay is the original name for Mumbai before it changed its name back to Mumbai. Mumbai is the capital city of Bollywood and the birthplace of Indian cinema. Mumbai‚ Maharashtra is the equivalent to Hollywood‚ California. Maharashtra is one of 28 states that combine to make the

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    Commentary on the contrast in the novel "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie between modern ideals and traditional. Society plays a large role in everyday lives- it can dictate how one should think and act in as the “popular opinion”. With this idea in mind it is easy to think that thoughts and opinions are in unison within the world‚ yet this is not the case. A vast range of ethics and morals spread across the population of Earth there are bound to be

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    Sherman Alexie’s poem titled‚ “The Facebook Sonnet‚” captures social media as it is - meaningless and lonely. Users sign up for sites in hopes of sharing life’s excitements and receive other’s support in return. Many are honest in the things they post‚ while others are not. it is up to the individual to stand with a high chin or let the weight of the words affect them. It easy to get caught up in the extravaganzas of others‚ thus the real struggle is protecting your own identity and value. EVALUATE

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    Woodland Indians

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    Woodland And The Seven Years’ War The Eastern Woodland Indians mainly consisted of two major regions the Iroquois‚ which comprised of five tribes and added an additional a sixth later‚ and the Cherokee. The Indians in the Eastern Woodland nation lived East of the plains and all the way to the coast‚ Iroquois in North Eastern currently know as the Ohio area and Cherokee South Eastern currently known as the Tennessee and Georgia area. All Indians lived off the lands hunting‚ gathering‚ farming‚ and

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    Indian Civilization

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    INDIAN CIVILIZATION Also called Indus Valley Civilization; the earliest in South Asia Contemporary with Bronze Age civilizations in pre-dynastic Egypt‚ Mesopotamia Compared to the other Bronze Age civilizations‚ Indus Valley Civilization was unspectacular Early civilizations of the Indian sub-continent were centred on two major river valleys: The Indus River and its tributaries‚ especially the Saraswati River Valley (2600-1500BCE) – associated with Dravidians. Called Harappan Culture The Ganges

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    indian indentureship

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    East Indian Indentureship The Indians arriving in the New World called themselves Jahan or “People of the Ship‚” referring to the ship that brought them across the oceans to the Americas. See chart below for East Indians arriving in South America starting in 1838 and in the Caribbean starting in 1845. In 1838‚ after the abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean‚ the agriculture production in Guyana (formerly known as British Guiana and located on mainland South America) had fallen by 60 percent

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    In the book The Absolutely True Story of a Part - Time Indian by Sherman Alexie The main character Junior has to deal with many obstacles that take a tool on him throughout the book. One of the obstacles that Junior faces is the loss and depression from losing two family members. Another obstacle is that Junior has to leave his home reservation school and go to an all white school can Reardan. The final obstacle that Junior faces is that he has a brighter future and smarter than most kids on his

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    Indian Tourism

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    gives an account on the development schemes that has been undertaken by thed Indian government to improve tourism in India. A lot of advantages of tourism are there as well.In this project all those advantage as well as the disadvantages of having tourism is listed.So this project gives an detail account on the tourism in India.for this reason I hope that after reading this project you will gain a lot of knowledge about INDIAN

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