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    Racial Diversity: Historical Worksheet ‘Native Americans’ Cultural Diversity/125 Native Americans were settled in the country before anyone else. But they ended up being the most “abused” out of any race that ever settled in the country. Native Americans had to fight for land that was originally theirs and sometimes fight just to stay alive. The fight was usually the same too. If it wasn’t against settlers‚ it was against the government. In some areas‚ it’s still happening today. Now it’s

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    Europeans and Native Americans in America Wars between Native Americans and Europeans with Americans have had quite a few similarities. In many of the different conflicts between American’s and the Europeans‚ the Europeans have almost always had Native American allies. This has created quite a difficulty between the American’s and the Europeans and Native Americans. American citizens often were more brutal and less professional when it came to war. Therefore‚ many of the Indians wanted to side

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    Native American Storytelling Kyle Lysher ENG/301 05/10/2015 Julie Kares Native American Storytelling While each culture on the planet has its own unique identity‚ an identity that is usually rich with traditions and habits‚ few cultures have such a grounded and strong cultural identity as the Native Americans. Many of their beliefs and traditions are shrouded in mystery‚ yet seemingly on display for the world to see - a culture of conflict and peace‚ acceptance and denial‚ the Native American culture

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    Europeans’ Perspective of Native Americans Europeans’ had an early dislike and no understanding to the ways of the Native American people. They were two very diverse groups of people that could not simply understand one another. They had different views on customary beliefs‚ social forms‚ and material traits of racial‚ religious‚ or social groups. Native Americans were people of the land and that was something that Europeans’ did not cling too due to their new technologies. You never judge a book

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    foreign power‚ Native Americans are also regarded to have been subjected to significant change. When the Europeans first arrived in the late 1400s‚ they brought with them the intent of not only exploring to find India‚ but also to find gold and much more wealth. The Europeans made a mistake in their navigation causing them not to arrive in India‚ but rather what they referred to as the “New World.” The Europeans had stumbled upon the Native Peoples that occupied that place. The Native Peoples were

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    Is it believable that Native American children face discrimination during their education because their schools have Native American mascots? Yes. However‚ are Native American children the only children who face discrimination throughout their education? Do mascots lead to discrimination against other races of children? Do African American and Asian children face discrimination? Do timid children‚ “nerds” and other various stereotypes face discrimination? Are all of these students not being discriminated

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    Native American art and its history are fairly new in the museum world. From the beginning‚ their culture as a whole was not understood. Research and study of the culture to fully understand their lives was few and far between. Even Native peoples that lived among us throughout history were the not used for their wisdom‚ advice‚ or involvement in the representation of their own arts or crafts. The value of Native art was always viewed as of lesser value and lacking interest compared to Western

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    Native Americans: A Marginalized Population Vicki Carter The University of Michigan-Flint Native Americans: A Marginalized Population Over the course of time in our country‚ many groups in our society have experienced being set apart from sustainable communities. Among them are the immigrants‚ the homeless‚ the African Americans‚ those with physical or mental disabilities and the Native Americans. According to McIntosh (1988)‚ “Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral‚ normative

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    of trouble for that‚ but people are not as prejudice as they used to be. Since the early 1930’s‚ Native Americans have had to deal with the negative way they were described in films. In particular‚ the way Native Americans were represented in the movie‚ Stagecoach‚ is vastly different to the way they are represented in culture today. Writers like Thomas King and Brian Dippie portray Native Americans much more respectably than the way movies like Stagecoach did in the 1930’s. Brian Dippie and

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    Native American Literature Native American literature is made up of two different types of literature‚ the oral traditions and the newer written traditions. From these two types are many different styles that make up the many different tribes of the Native American culture. Storytelling has long been an important aspect of all Native American cultures. It is through storytelling that the Native Americans are able to pass down their traditions and cultural identities. Oral traditions

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