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    as their values through music. I chose to research and compare Native American and Middle Eastern Music because I felt I needed to find a deeper understanding of these two cultures‚ given their current impact on my life. Native Americans music traces all the way back to the first time they claimed land in America. Traditionally‚ their music was based around “spirit beings in the mythic past” (Victoria Lindsay Levine‚ Native American music‚ www.Britannica.com). At the time‚ America was populated

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    3 Topic :The horse and buffalo to Native Americans The First Attempt Buffalos are valuable resources to the Native Americans as they provide basic needs and food to them. While the use of horses in late 1500s further enhanced Native Americans’ hunting ability. Native Americans are not born to ride. In 1598‚ there were a lot of Spanish settlers moved to New Mexico. They used Native Americans as slaves and workers. During this period‚ Native American workers and slaves learnt about horses

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    21. Both Native Americans and White Colonists thought that each group was “wasting” their own land. Colonists believed that the Natives weren’t using and spreading their land to its fullest potential while the Natives had never fathomed the fact that you could have individual ownership over an acre of space. New England life varied from other colonial regions because:
1. It was less ethically mixed than the middle or southern regions. Ideas such as black slavery did not excel‚ and it was an almost

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    1) Indian life on the Great Plains was transformed dramatically‚ as nearly every Native American was living on a reservation by force‚ as their land had been taken away from them. One of the Indian’s main food supply had degenerated as well‚ as Buffalo Bill killed 4‚300 bison to feed the Union Pacific Railroad crews and the Army killed 9 million buffalo. The Native Americans lost their homes‚ and their major food source‚ which is a dramatic change in any person or tribe’s life. 2) Yes‚ the Indian

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    find a job that can support your family. For many Native Americans‚ there is no need to imagine any of that because they are forced to live a life like that already. For many years now‚ Native American reservations have struggled with creating suitable living conditions which creates a very difficult environment for one grow up in or raise their children. Because of poor health conditions‚ unstable job market and terrible housing; Native American reservations have developed some of the worst living

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    well known for its repeated attempts to steal Native American’s right to their homeland in their quest to colonize. Throughout its history‚ the country systematically tries to eradicate the ‘Native American problem’ by extinguishing their very identity. The main force the government used was education as a tool of oppression during the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. The North American government would force the American Indians to send their children to either a boarding

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    The Columbian Exchange Historical Context: In the late 1400s‚ European explorers found the North American continent. Native American peoples who were already living in North America had created a system of government and society that rivaled Europe ’s. The cultural and biological exchange between the "New World" and the "Old World" (North America and Europe‚ respectively) is often called the Columbian Exchange in reference to Christopher Columbus. Directions: The following question is based on

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    The Impact of Disease on Native American Culture Though warfare and attacks on entire villages took a definite toll on the populations of Native Americans‚ disease was by far the biggest killer. We’ve all heard the stories of smallpox infected blankets being given to the Native Americans‚ and other such atrocities‚ but I was simply dumbfounded at the actual numbers of dead due to Old World diseases being introduced to the New World‚ North America. While it has been somewhat difficult for scholars

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    The Native Americans and the Colonists have had a very close relationship throughout history. I’d say that they’ve had sort of a mutual relationship. In about 1640 the English started building colonies in in the New England colonies in colonial America. Jamestown was a common area where the Natives and the colonists had sort of mixed feelings with each other. I think the English true intentions was to use the Natives and steal their resources like their gold and their beads. The Natives

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    early Minnesota‚ the Native Americans of the Dakota Tribe and the European settlers exchanged in a numerous amount of trading different things. Some of the trades were equal and some were better for one of the single groups. The trading the two groups did with one another came across many different varieties. There were trading of consumer goods‚ exchanging of belief systems‚ and swapping of agriculture possessions. One of the common consumer goods back during the 1600s that was used for trading was

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