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    prevalence and correlates of mental disorders among Native American women in primary care. This summary will include the objectives‚ the methods‚ the results‚ and the conclusions. American Indian and Alaska Native women who presented for primary care were examined the lifetime and the past-year prevalence and correlates of common mental disorder. Limited information exists about the prevalence of mental illness among American Indian women and Alaska Native women‚ because the two major US prevalence studies

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    Although throughout history the goverment took advantage of the Native Americans‚ suprisingly they answered the call of duty to fight for their country in the 1940’s. The code talkers are a main part of the victory in World War II. They used a secret code no one could break. The code talkers were made of classified tribes that no one knew about until they were declassified years after the war was over. The Native American code talkers were important because no one could break their code. The tribes

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    Tecumseh a native American who was sided with Great Britain it’s talking to his brothers mentioning them that they should all united to a single family with the red coats. That nothing will fulfill the colonist who want to settle in America(west) and those colonists don’t thank and appreciate that when they were starving to death and ill the Indians were the ones who saved them. Colonists are no good and all they want it’s their land! Colonist were invading America trying to settle and the natives see

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    The Native American Trickster Tales may have a frightening side to them because seemingly vast majorities of people are scared of the ‘joker’ type characters introduced to them through all kinds of media. There is the party clown who terrifies most children and then there is the ‘joker’ in Batman movies‚ whom plays the villain. This example can of course only work for those who have experienced joker characters before reading The Native American Trickster Tales. Tricksters and jokers alike happen

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    1. What does Mary Rowlandson’s work lead the reader to believe about the Natives? Be descriptive (words‚ tone‚ etc.).  Her very descriptive use of language to describe what she witnessed was very good.  She convinced me that the Indians were uncivilized‚ ferocious and brutal in their attack.  She conveyed that they were also strategic‚ as she describes how they came in a large group and not only climbed on rooftops‚ but surrounded the house so as not to allow anyone inside to escape.  She was very

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    Native American cultures did not yet know how to work metal‚ but quickly learned to use firearms and acquired them through trade. Champlain tried to block guns from leaking into Native culture‚ real­ izing that it would undercut his military advantage. He was able to win his battle on Lake Champlain in 1609 because guns had not yet fallen into the hands of the Mohawks. Other European traders were not so careful. The English traded guns for fur pelts‚ but only with their allies. The Dutch trading

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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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    Throughout primary and secondary education‚ school age children learn that Native American was the first to live on America soil. They are a tribal culture consisting of a hunter and gather. However‚ student also learnt that many conflicts arose when Europeans settler claim their land for themselves. War broke out between the two cultures resulting in the Treaty of Paris‚ and French and Indian‚ war. As to slander the Native American culture European dean‚ them as ignorant savages depict them as anti-peace

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    We are going to take a look at Three Native Americans Pontiac‚ Red Jacket‚ and Tecumseh to see what the relation are with the white men. We are going to see how they gave to the white men and how the white men took from the Indians. Pontiac was an Ottawa Indian; Ottawa derives from the Algonquian atawewin‚ meaning “commerce” or “to trade”. There’s Indians were one of the first to deal with the white men and were told many times to stay away but relied on trades and other things from the white

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    When the Europeans landed in the Americas‚ they were surprised to find that other people had already populated the land. These people came to be known as Indians to the Europeans‚ and Native Americans to us today. They were called Indians due to the fact that the Europeans at first thought that they were in India‚ as they stumbled across the Americas whilst looking for a quicker shipping route to India‚ not knowing the fast land masses that separated Europe and India. Eventually though they discovered

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