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    Native Americans and their naming traditions• In the generation that we live in‚ legal names are given. In Native American Culture names are earned. Native American naming traditions are very personal and sacred. Each and every single name has its own meaning and purpose. This are drawn from nature‚ frequently determined by the environment‚ animals or characters. Unlike us‚ their names are the identity‚ are who they truly are. In the Native American Naming Tradition‚ a person could have several

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    many for the native people. A respected person named Christopher Columbus went on voyages to find a way to travel to Asia but he ended up meeting the Indies in Central America. He was recognized by other explorers that wanted to explore America. Europeans called the new territory the New World but there were already developed societies. Europeans saw America as a new place to seize new opportunities and an adventure. Queen Isabella minimize the amount of freedom that the Native Americans had. She announced

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    now are mascots that are Native American based. There are multiple ethical issues that have been brought up over using these mascots. Using Native American objects or even the Native American people as a mascot is a racial issue‚ and the stereotypical images of the Native Americans affect

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    Austin Chambers Unity and Diversity Term Paper Native American Mascot use Native Americans have been on this land for hundreds‚ if not thousands of years. Their way of life is very different from the socially accepted way of the Europeans. The traditional symbols of their people and the ceremonial dress that they wore are considered sacred. Many different college universities‚ professional sports teams and public businesses use these sacred symbols‚ images and traditional dress as

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    to investigate media representations of Native Americans in pop culture‚ including film‚ TV‚ video games‚ and music. The premise of this work is that it is important to include Native American perspectives on media representation. Do modern media representations of American Indians honor Native American identities or do they continue to degrade them? Based on the information I’ve researched and the students I’ve interviewed‚ the portrayal of Native Americans in popular media has had a steady balance

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    late 1800’s‚ the few Native Americans that were left in the United States were almost completely extinguished. Many different things contributed to their near-extinction‚ some intentional and some unintentional. Some tribes went willingly‚ and some fought to the death. But in the end‚ it was proven that Native Americans and settlers could not live together in peace‚ and Native Americans were the ones at loss. A number of American inventions indirectly hurt the Native Americans. In 1874‚ Joseph

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    Native Americans‚ or Indians‚ or whatever people might choose call people who first came to North America‚ are pictured with bow and arrow‚ riding a horse‚ and hunting buffalos‚ or with a tomahawk in the hand‚ and a feather in their head trying to fight and be violent. The truth is people only see one side of the story. In reality Native Americans have a complex and diverse culture‚ that has evolved as the time has passed. They have gone from hunting mammoths‚ and collecting wild barriers to farming

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    films‚ Native Americans have historically been portrayed as uncivilized and dangerous. Many photographs from hundreds of years ago were staged – paying Natives to wear traditionally incorrect dress and costumes‚ like headdresses. Chiefs wore headdresses during special ceremonies and that was it. However‚ when someone dresses up as a Native‚ they wear a headdress because it’s their stereotypical image of a Native American. Most people don’t know the true history of the Native Americans (the removal

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    the beginning of the end for the natives that lived there. Right away there were obvious differences between the two cultures. The settlers saw themselves as superior and tried to force the Natives into taking on the European way of life. Although the settlers were friendly towards the Natives at first‚ war eventually broke out when they tried to protect their land. They slowly became the minority population of the United States. The genocide of the Native American people was not the end result that

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    Christopher Columbus’ treatment of the Native Americans Historians and the general public alike have posed the question; how could so few Spanish could have conquered such a huge territory and so many people? By 1550‚ within a few decades of Columbus’ arrival on Caribbean shores‚ the Spanish had conquered and colonized vast tracts of the Americas more than ten times larger than Spain itself and an estimated 200‚000 or more Native Americans. The answers to this question vary over time‚ and are

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