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    The 1860’s brought hardship between whites and Indians. As our people slowly moved into the tribe’s land‚ no friendship was bound to be created. Little by little‚ we nudged the Indians into a limited area of land where they felt the need to fight back. Included in this retaliation was three massacres. The bloodiest battle according to the rest of the US military that was not murdered‚ was titled the Fetterman Massacre. The last two Massacres took place in territories such as Colorado and Missouri

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    Aboriginal people are the natives of Canada; the people who lived here before anyone else settled. Therefore‚ when new settlers arrived they sometimes had to fight to get what belonged to them. This has not changed today. After the 1980s‚ Aboriginal people have only been somewhat successful in having their issues such as self-government‚ social conditions‚ land claims‚ and residential schools addressed. Self-government is one of the issues that the First Nations have been moderately successful

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    BA (Hons) Tourism Marketing Year 3 1.0 AN INTRODUCTION According to the United Nations definition of indigenous people‚ they are “descendants of those who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived” (United Nations‚ 2011a). It is estimated that there are about 370 million indigenous people around the globe in over 70 different countries. They keep their own political‚ social‚ economic and cultural qualities and also their

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    There are 7 billion people in the world. 600 million live in northern America. 125 million live in Mexico with 1.5 million living near the Cancun peninsula‚ and only around 2‚000 of them are Itzan. The Itzan people are in grave danger of extinction‚ with only 1‚983 natives left. Did you know that only 8 people in this whole world‚ speak itzan fluently? But who are the Itza people? The Itzan are one of the few surviving tribes of the Mayan people but they are also shrouded in mystery. No one

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    many were of mixed race . Free people of color was especially a term used in New Orleans and the former Louisiana Territory‚ where a substantial third class of primarily mixed-race‚ free people developed. There were also free people of color in Caribbean and Latin American slave societies. These colonial societies classified mixed-race people in a variety of ways‚ generally related to appearance and to the proportion of African ancestry. History Free people of color‚ or gens de couleur libre

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    (1999) and David Creamer. This assignment will examine two different ways in which humans have used contact with nature as a way of finding meaning and direction. The first part of the essay will analyze the Vision Quest of the Native American Lakota tradition from the perspective of Van Gennep’s theory of a rite of passage. The second part of the assignment will look at a modern interpretation of the Quest using John Suler’s categories of: Wandering‚ The Sign and Individuation In earlier societies

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    This essay seeks to demonstrate that whilst Indigenous health policy may have been on the Australian public policy agenda since the1960s‚ the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health has remained. A brief description of the lives of Indigenous Australians prior to the colonisation of Australia is given‚ followed by a description of various policies that have been introduced by the Australian government to combat these inequalities. This essay demonstrates why these policies have been inadequate

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    Takeshi Munemura English Foundation 8 6/23/12 Stereotypes I’ve heard many people say‚ ‘’that guy should be really fast since he’s black’’ or ‘’that guy must be smart since he’s Japanese. These comments come from people’s judgments‚ and sometimes‚ these facts are true. Many people stereotype each other. Stereotype is similar to judgment. Often‚ many people have habits of judging other people. For example‚ if I see a guy with scary face‚ I would think ‘’this guy looks dangerous. I should stay

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    constitute one as “other”‚ they must be stripped of their rights and dignities as human beings. This is exactly what is happening to the people of South Bronx. Even though they are not being dominated or despoiled‚ they are treated like subhumans by the government and other citizens of the country; especially the comparably rich citizens of New York City next to them. The people of South Bronx are stripped of their rights as human beings and treated as the “other” by the rich citizens as a result of the ideology

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    Amazon Rainforest Conservation through Development of Indigenous Peoples Today‚ the Amazon Rainforest is a very different place than it was when the Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana first navigated through its river in 1542. The forest has been around for 55 million years on the South American continent (e.g. Maslin et al. 2005) but through decades of deforestation‚ climate change‚ agriculture‚ and population growth‚ the Amazon Rainforest is facing a point of destruction. In Brazil‚ at the

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