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    Did you know that one group of native Americans don’t use any type of boat for transportation. Many groups used kayaks canoes and boats but one group does not‚ and the Inuit‚ Haida‚ and Iroquois all hunt with bows and arrows but ‚the Inuit live in a more harsh climate‚ the Haida have a legend on how it came to be‚ and the Iroquois don’t use boats. First of all the Haida and I went and Iroquois are alike because they all use a bone arrow to hunt and they hunt a lot of the same things. It is shown

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    located just above the border into the United States. I saw the reporters interviewing the people looking to get their side of the story as they waited for the event to be underway the grand opening of the museum of native American history. One reporter was interviewing a tall Native American who wore a name tag that said I am Blackfoot on it. The man said to the news reporter “I remember 3 years ago when Mel started this petition to reopen this museum‚ we all thought he was crazy‚ he would come around

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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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    Grief Programs: Native Americans and Death Lisa Shewmaker University of the Rockies Abstract This paper will look at existing organizations and programs that provide parent home visits for infant and child loss in culturally diverse populated areas in the United States. These programs generally do not encompass grief recovery for the Native American community. As social workers and providers of these services‚ it is important to understand this cultural group‚ know their rituals and beliefs surrounding

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    things in common‚ a past history and some form of a belief system. Among all of the cultures in this world‚ one of the most unique and fascinating are the Native Americans. The ancestors of today’s Native Americans often explained their beliefs through their phenomenal stories. Probably one of the most commonly used subject among many Native American tribal stories is the creation of the earth‚ which was visualized differently throughout the many tribes.One of the many famous theories or belief stories

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    Squanto Squanto is a Native American who lived in the early seventeenth century in what is now the Northeast United States. When the English came to this area of America to settle‚ they became very fond of Squanto and used him as a translator due to his unique knowledge of the English language acquired through an earlier voyage to Europe. Squanto helped the Pilgrims adapt to their new surroundings by providing them with the knowledge that he and his ancestors used to survive when they first

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    Native Americans are the Same as Catholics? Surprisingly‚ Native American and Catholic religions have as much in common as they have in differences. Native Americans have been practicing their individual‚ but very similar religions for thousands of years. Yet‚ in a brief period of time‚ they lost much their traditional religious practices due to the aggressive Catholic administration and missionaries in their efforts to “reform”‚ modernize‚ and educate Native American populations and their

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    Burial Rituals of Native American Culture At some point in our lives‚ we all come to realize that death is a part of life. Cultural diversity provides a wide variety of lifestyles and traditions for each of the unique groups of people in our world. Within these different cultures‚ the rituals associated with death and burial can also be uniquely diverse. Many consider ritualistic traditions that differ from their own to be somewhat strange and often perceive them as unnatural. A prime example

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    Relations between Native Americans and Pennsylvania Virginia and New England Paduraru Alexandru Sebastian Redactare text C. Pralea 16.01.2013 The topic I chose to write is about the relations between 3 of the American colonies with the American natives. The colonies are Pennsylvania‚ Virginia and New England .I’ll try to write about how they established the colony ‚ how they developed afterwards and how the relations between the colonies and between them and natives evolved. The Pennsylvania

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    individual more comfortable. Despite the many negative effects it might have‚ it typically outweighs the resistance to not drink. For decades now‚ the resistance to not drink in the Native American culture has been a battle. A study was done by the centers for disease control and prevention found out that 66 percent of Native Americans‚ who died from alcohol related cause‚ were younger than 50 years old. These deaths come from homicides‚ suicides and even cardiovascular disease. Alcohol has become an underlying

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