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    Native American Settlers

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    white settler or government of United States and Native Americans. Conflicts started almost immediately after settlers begun to move to the North America and ended in the early 20th century. During this time all the Native Tribes were one by one moved to the reservation where a lot of them live until today. They had to change the way they lived and their culture was almost destroyed. They weren’t prepared for this change and today’s Native Americans have to live with consequences of it. What were

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    The dehumanization and Slaughter of a well-established nation Hundreds of years prior to the invasion of the Europeans; Native Americans had secured a civilized lifestyle which supported their lifestyle. The European colonization of the Americas forever changed the lives‚ bloodlines‚ and cultures of the peoples of the continent. Their populations were ravaged by disease‚ by the privations of displacement‚ and in many cases by warfare with European groups that may have tried to enslave them. The

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    Native American Pipeline

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    Native Americans were confined to bleak reservations in vast stretches of the country‚ that no one thought was good for much of anything else. But those areas‚ ironically enough‚ turn out to be essential for the production and transportation of the last great stocks of hydrocarbons (Mckibben). Repeating history‚ our government and huge corporations are diving through hoops and trampling over morals‚ wreaking havoc on what little land indigenous people have left. A 1‚172- mile‚ sweet crude oil pipeline

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    Study guide test #1 1. How did the "first Americans" get here and what account for the diversity of their cultures? How and why did Native-American concepts of land usage differ from that of Europeans?  What were the motivations that first brought Spanish explorers to the New World? What were they looking for? Which nations had the most success in creating a profitable New World empire prior to the 1600’s? How and why? Understand England’s failures in trying to get into the colony business. In regards

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    Native American Myths

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    Cultures and their Myths Many different people believe different things about creation. Different Native American cultures‚ for example‚ have different stories to explain the mystery of creation. These stories often give insight into the values held by the culture that the story comes from. Although the stories may differ‚ the theme behind each of them often carry a similar message‚ and have values that are alike‚ such as respect for old age‚ or even a love for nature. In “The Earth on the

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    Native American Desire

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    The European desire for capital was socially disastrous because they implemented the strategy of divide and conquer within the Native American and African-origin peoples. Hartman quotes Walter Rodney in saying “There was in existence a fundamental class contradiction between the ruling nobility and the commoners; and the ruling classes joined hands with the Europeans in exploiting the African masses” (Hartman 31). Indeed‚ the Europeans’ entitlement made them foreign to the idea of family and ultimately

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    Native American Heritage

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    I have re-read this book in a relatively new edition. It is a mixture of Kiowa myths‚ family stories‚ history sketches‚ and personal experiences. For me it evokes a sense of community unknown in modern U.S. society. It also conveys‚ however dimly to the modern scientific mind‚ a deep sense of a peoples’ experience of the sacred where that term is entirely outside of modern theology and is steeped in the land and the memory of a people. It one opens ones mind and emotions the book can connect in a

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    Native American Atlatl

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    An atlatl is a stick that propels a dart or a spear used by Eskimos and early Native Americans. There is a handle on one end and a hook or socket on the other were the spear or dart is held. The term atlatl comes from the Aztecs who were the first culture to actually write down this term. In modern time we use the expression throwing stick‚ throwing board‚ or even speer sling the problem is that these names do not just pertain to an atlatl. Throughout the years there are many cultures that have use

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    the Western interest in First Nations people extends across history from “dominating or colonizing First Nations people‚ [their] cultural images and [their] land” to “salvaging‚ preserving‚ and reinterpreting material fragments of a supposedly dying native culture for Western “art and culture” collections” (277). From such examples as Captain Cook’s Club gifted by the Nuu-chal-nulth‚ indigenous works and artifacts are being labelled with unbelievably high prices—the simple club

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    Native American Legends

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    Folklore Paper Blackfoot Nation The Blackfoot nation is comprised of three First Nations in Alberta‚ Canada (North Peigan‚ South Peigan‚ Kainai Nation) and one Native American tribe in Montana (Siksika Nation). Their language is of the Algonquian family and they have many beautiful stories that reflect their culture‚ language‚ geography and history. The two stories I chose to read are called “Legend of the Beginning‚” and “Blood Clot Boy.” “Legend of the Beginning” is a creation story

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