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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the Europeans and Native Americans. The Europeans and Native Americans exchanged many goods and ideas when they meet each other in the New World. They shared with each other their own traditions‚ cultures‚ foods‚ languages‚ weapons‚goods; resulting in some positive outcomes and negative as well. When the first Europeans made contact with the native Indians they inadvertently exposed and infected them with their diseases like smallpox‚ yellow fever‚ and malaria. One native population called the
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History of the Two-Spirit Native American People Abstract Accounts of homosexual and cross-gender Native American individuals from before colonization have been documented and discussed. The term given to those who take up this role in the tribe is Berdache‚ or Two-Spirit. Often the male would take on the role of the female‚ yet it is not certain that all Two-Spirit tribe members were homosexual. However with the arrival of Europeans and the following colonization‚ the role of the Two-Sprit
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Researcher aren’t aware of their own bias toward Native American some people aren’t educated with the history of trauma Native American have suffered and this is why Native American isolate themselves from today’s society. Traditional research address cultural competent with human services must take into account while working with Native American to be respectful and be aware of your own bias and give understand to Native American belief and values. Cultural competence can be summarized with
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In “The Indians New World” by James Merrell‚ he talks about how “after 1492 native Americans lived in a world every bit as new as that confronting transplanted Africans or Europeans.” Merrell argues that after the Europeans and Africans came to America‚ all three cultures shared a history in what would become the colonies‚ and eventually the United States. To help to prove his point‚ Merrell uses the Catawba Nation of the Carolina’s as an example of how all three of these cultures were intertwined
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What I have learned about American Indian Studies is that the amount of intelligence my ancestral forefathers’ had‚ has gone‚ and still goes unnoticed by the majority of the citizens of America. That American Indian History is a hush‚ hush subject of education that many times in my schooling‚ was overlooked. I was only taught about Natives when the history teacher was speaking of the ‘spectacular’ discovery by Christopher Columbus and that was it. I never knew that Indians across the nation suffer
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justice‚ however we have so much further to go. There are many Native Americans‚ African‚ American‚ and other minorities that are still left behind. Today there are people by the thousands‚ living as second class citizens‚ stripped of their natural born rights. The idea that we are all equal‚ is just an illusion. It is time that we Americans come together and strive for true equality and social justice. The future of Native Americans is precarious. With much of their cultural heritage destroyed forever
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Don’t Drink the Water: The Persecution of Native Americans in the 1800s When first hearing Dave Matthews Band’s “Don’t Drink the Water‚” you might believe the song is about the apartheid having knowledge of Matthews’ country of birth but when you continue to listen to the song the listener will discover a different story behind the song. Matthews moved to The United States when he was two leading him to write about different events in America’s history. Through the different stanzas Dave Matthews
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Europeans and Native Indians Americans The American History was built under several wars‚ people suffering‚ and religious conflicts. Starting with Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to the Asian continent in 1492‚ his plans were to find a huge amount of wealth to make Spain rich‚ and also bring the Christianity to the new land. Frustrated in fail while trying to find Asian‚ instead he found the American continent. Such fact Columbus began to act aggressive towards Native Americans‚ enslaving and
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Europeans came encounter with the Native Americans and the Native Americans were gift giving people. The British did not understand that they were supposed to be in an alliance with the Native Americans‚ including helping them with their enemies. When the Native Americans realized that the British were not be in an alliance‚ conflict started between the two. Looking at the British‚ it took them a shorter period to reach the Natives‚ and in turn they would regularly make voyages. However‚ the French
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