American Indians have been around for more than 15‚000 years. Although Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492‚ there were already people living in what is now called the United States. During the 1800s‚ American Indians had to deal with all the immigrants from Europe “invading their land”. The Native Americans tried to resist relocation due to the Westward Expansion‚ but because of reduced population through disease and warfare and assimilation with the immigrants‚ they didn’t have much
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A long time ago‚ many ages before the human race conquered the world‚ was a Native American village. Life was easy in the Native American village. The Indians had ample food supply‚ several skilled craftsman‚ and excellent hunters. Then on one refreshing morning‚ the spiritual mother brought a pair of twins into the living world. Nothing such had ever been before‚ the newborns were the first to have been seen alike. The whole tribe was in shock‚ they didn’t know what to do or what it meant at first
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decoration or tools while others use it to tell stories and record their history. In America‚ the Natives have been using art since they first came into existence‚ and their culture is reflected in every medium they used whether it be color or shape. As time changed and went on‚ the state of Oklahoma received most of the Natives‚ the events greatly affected the culture which affected the art. Native Americans in Oklahoma used art to maintain their culture and history through different mediums like clay
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World based it off of their own view of the world and of Columbus. In " A People’s History of the United States "‚ Howard Zinn approaches his view on history in a more opinion based way. Howard Zinn beings by retelling the encounter between the natives and Columbus. Zinn’s view of this is different from the traditional encounter most historians talk about. Howard Zinn points out that the Europeans came to the Americas in search of slaves and gold and brutally killed almost all the Indians‚ who according
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The size and shape of the shells soon became standard and the use of the shells shifted to accomplish complex economic exchanges. Once wampum shells commonly began to be used‚ the Europeans not only saw shell trading with the natives but also within their own culture eventually becoming the center of currency for the Europeans of the area. This posed some problems as the Europeans were also trading with a world that did not recognize the wampum as a form of currency but rather
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communion among the members of a group‚ on the one hand‚ and between them and their god‚ on the other.” During religious ceremonies when the term sacrifice was being used during this time period‚ people would present a “holy” human or animal to their god(s) in hope in return of relief from any issues or complications in their life or just a better situation in life in general. Native Americans used to do similar forms of sacrifice in different forms‚ including dancing‚ to the different gods of
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beauty that many have settled in parts around it. One of which was the Cheyenne Tribe (TSE-TSEHESE-STAESTSE)‚ during the mid 17th century. The Cheyenne were nomadic‚ roaming about from place to place frequently‚ or without a certain destination‚ and they traveled around the Americas. The Cheyenne were said to have started in the Great Plains region. It was said that they were driven westward by a Sioux Tribe. They traveled to what is now northern Minnesota and settled near the Great Lakes. Again they
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a state of rapid expansion westward. There was territory that had not been developed in the western United States‚ and as the population grew in the United States‚ people wanted to move to where they could own land. The expansion of the railroads‚ including railroads that spanned the entire United States‚ helped accelerate this movement. However‚ there were also multiple Native American tribes that had territory out west. As the population expanded westward‚ the Native Americans were pushed further
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RESOURCE EXTRACTION ON NATIVE AMERICAN LANDS Andrew Kalmey This August 2012 article “Tapping Into the Land‚ and Dividing its People” describes the controversies of whether the Blackfeet tribes should allow oil companies on to their 1.5 million acre reservation on order to drill for oil. This issue causes divide within the peoples on the reservation because of their Blackfeet beliefs of how the land is living and very sacred and whether or not to go against those beliefs in order to gain jobs and
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The Native American Culture should be saved because they are people of American‚ they have their own belief system and the different ways of living. Native Americans are people too‚ but they are treated very different from "normal" Americans. One example of a Native American Culture would be the Navajo Indians which was the tribe in the TV show "30 Days". The Navajo tribe lives on a reservation in 3 states: Arizona‚ Utah‚ and New Mexico. Navajo reservation is know for being one of the biggest reservations
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