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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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    2-The idea of challenges Natives face is major‚ from having to deal with so much‚ including generations being destroyed and are still in the process of fixing all these problems. Some which include colonialism‚ which is defined as the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country‚ occupying it with settlers‚ and exploiting it economically‚ including Christopher Columbus. Policy a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government‚ party‚ business

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    people and Hispanic people with a minority of Native American‚ Asian and African American within. The state alone has many more cultural ethnics within but we still maintain a steady bias of Caucasian and Hispanic. The big issue at the time is that in the past Hispanics and Caucasians hated each other to the point that my town was divided in two and if any of the other race crossed the border would either be beaten to a bloody

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    examines the educational policies in the United States that have resulted in intentional patterns of oppression by Protestant‚ European Americans against racial and ethnic groups. The historical context of the European American oppressor is helpful in understanding how the dominant group has manipulated the minority groups. These minority groups include Americans who are Native‚ African‚ Latin/Hispanic‚ and Asian. Techniques for deculturalization were applied in attempts to erase the oppressed groups’ previous

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    The term indian originated from christopher columbus.He thought he reached the east indies when he landed in america and therefore calling them the indians/Native americans. The similarities and differences are many but i don’t think they are all so interesting.But the similarities are that the native americans and the stories are about something tragic happening in their lives and they can be life lessons. In these stories of the ¨buffalo and the corn‚¨ ¨The coyote and the fox‚¨ ¨and the first

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    Values in Early American Literature "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these are life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness‚" says the Declaration of Independence. This phrase encompasses three major values shown throughout early American literature. The strong belief in religion‚ freedom‚ and a strong will for a better life. Each piece had one or more of these themes

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    for the native people of North America. The Columbian Exchange which involved the exchanging of diseases‚ animals and plants ended up being very helpful for the Europeans that came over to the new world but was not as helpful for the native people. The native people’s population suffered majorly from the introduction of new diseases from the Old World that the Europeans brought over with them. Of course unintentionally the Europeans bought over diseases to North America that the native people

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    Sweat lodges are commonly used in most Native American cultures as well as others. Many people who participate in sweat lodge ceremonies do so for various reasons and all have different outcomes. All tribes are unique and they all seek different benefits‚ individually and in a group. The main purpose of the sweat lodge is purification. When you are in the lodge you can say anything you want to get off of your chest. So usually what’s said in the lodge stays in the lodge. It is commonly used to get

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    spiritual beliefs. The first Americans that crossed the Bering Strait were nomadic hunters in pursuit of game. Native American Indian tribes relied strongly on hunting not only for food but they used animals parts for knives‚ bowstrings‚ and clothing. The early Europeans hunted for the same reasons‚ as did early peoples from across the globe. People even fought each other over hunting grounds. When the first European settlers arrived in the new world‚ the native Indians attacked to defend their

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    When the Euro-Americans started to settle America they forced the Native Americans to adapt their culture and religion. The settlers were very serious about their Christian religion. They thought it was the one true faith and all people should believe in it. Euro-Americans actually feared the Native Americans because they felt that Native Americans were evil because they didn’t have a religion. What the Euro-Americans didn’t understand was that the Native Americans did have a religion and their own

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