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    African Americans Vs. Native Americans In today’s society there are many people living in poverty. All across America there are different projects and reservations where the less fortunate reside. Statistics show that mostly minorities live in these different locations. Native Americans and African Americans are two of the more popular races living in these places. The group suffering the most in these situations is the youth. Although both Native American and African American children living

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    Cultural Project: Native Americans and Alaska Natives Introduction The outline and presentation for this assignment generally follows the presentations from Giger’s (2009) Application of Assessment and Intervention Techniques to Specific Cultural Groups. There are over 500 Federally Recognized tribes in the U.S.‚ plus some additional tribes recognized by states‚ plus unknown number of smaller unrecognized tribes. Many are also divided into clans and loosely categorized into major groups.

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    Depiction of Native Americans in American Film Stereotypes of different cultures have a large role in the opinions we hold. One culture which has endured stereotypes since America came to exist is the Native American. This analysis intends to look at the different stereotypes Native Americans have been branded with and how these stereotypes have been incorporated into American Film‚ in particular The Searchers. The current stereotypes we hold of the Native Americans stem from the first encounters

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    country into something more‚ a transcontinental nation‚ with the help of many events.Though  deaths and sacrifices were made in the process‚ it helped shape the transcontinental nation.  The thirteen colonies went from a new independent country to a transcontinental nation  because of the economic improvements‚ the War of 1812‚ and the westward expansion.    Economic improvements helped the transformation into a transcontinental nation in a  big way. The ways were the use of the National Bank and the American System‚ as well as 

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    the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national‚ racial‚ political‚ or cultural group. In the 19th century‚ Indians were not considered American citizens but were viewed as uncivilized savages by the government. This mindset allowed the suffering the groups endured to be seen as “Americanizing” the Indian. The treatment of the Native Americans by the federal government in the 1800’s was genocide in the making. The United States government attempted to strip Indian culture‚ customs‚ religion

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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 American Transition to Freedom American History Since 1865 Prof. December America was a very trying country in the mid 1800’s especially regarding the treatment of indigenous people such as the Native Americans. It is a known fact that much of America was inhabited by indigenous people‚ the Native American Indians‚ prior to the arrival of the “white man” or European settlers (Bowles‚ 2011). The native Indians that occupied America had freedom of the land and were isolated prior to the

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    In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue and had found a “New” world‚ America. He had found it not discovered it because there were already Indians and other people living there so it wasn’t a “new” world it was just a new unheard-of place that the Europeans had just found. The Indians living in America was not as technologically advanced as the new Europeans who had just arrived and began to settle. All of the different Indian tribes that lived their got food from crops‚ hunting and fishing

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    country into mass starvation and disease. The irish people did not have many choices. The had to decide to stay and hope this period in time would end or move to another country. A lot of these people chose to go to America because to heard about the American dream and the gold

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    Artifacts can tell stories. Unlike history recorded or told by human‚ artifacts are capable of revealing the most objective and neutral version of the stories. Behind the sword belonged to Thomas’ Legion‚ there is a history of Native American‚ especially the position of eastern band of Cherokee‚ during the Civil War period. The sword is a Model 1840 Cavalry Saber (M1840) in dark color‚ which used to owned by Colonel Love in Thomas’ Legion. This artifact is 44 inch long with a weight of 2.5 pounds

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