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    relationship with individual Native American nations. The government developed contracts that negotiated land agreements. The Native American nations gave up their homelands in exchange for protection provided by the United States government. A connection based on trust was established so that each party could fulfill their obligations. However‚ problems began when one group failed to fulfill their responsibilities. The problems that occurred in the past with the government and Native Americans result in

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    Native Indians ancestors who are pre Columbian people‚ were domestic to the land within nation’s boundaries. Native Indians form numerous bands‚ ethnic groups and tribes. The term Native American was adopted by a newspaper as well as by an academic group that hasn’t been included to their other Indian groups. Such as the Alaskan Natives and the Native Hawaiians. Christian missionaries initially ran affiliated or primary after the Indian war the Native American boarding school in which it was established

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    land from the Native Americans and the question is “How can the United States make up for the injustices it inflicted on Native Americans?” My Position is team land and giving Native Americans is a better idea and apology for what the United States has done to them.These are my three claims to prove why the Native Americans deserve their land back. My first claim is that the Native Americans were here first and this was their land‚ not ours. Giving money isn’t going to benefit the Native Americans and

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    The natives and settlers conflicted over lots of things all throughout history. Some causes of conflict were more important than others. Some were misunderstood‚ others were about land and resources‚ a few were about how some people were more superior than others. The most important causes of conflict are miscommunication & misunderstanding‚ settlers belief that they were superior‚ and different beliefs about land and land use. The settlers and natives had many causes of conflict over animals and

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    should address this impact in our past as a moral question. The Natives had no sense of ownership of land‚ they thought land could not be owned‚ this was used as an advantage. The Native culture depends on different aspects of life compared to the Europeans culture. European Culture became the more dominant culture over the Natives. The Native Americans believed in tribal sovereignty which conflicted with the Europeans beliefs. The Native Americans did not believe in ownership of land‚ they believed

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    For Native Americans‚ religion was their way to understand and harmonize with the world around them. They used different types of rituals to maintain a morally neutral universe. However‚ with the encounter of European colonists‚ Native Americans experienced a constant struggle for religious freedom and survival. The encounter caused a major cultural and religious shock for the Native Americans as their religion could no longer provide answers as to what they were experiencing. The Native Americans

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    profit are reserved to a Native people. Reservations are only lent to their occupants and remain the property of the states under US law. Some spaces partially sold to non-Indian are sources of many administrative‚ political and legal difficulties. Half of women in reservations have been raped‚ sexual assaulted or kidnapped. According to the US department of justice Native women in reservations are more affected by homicide than other women in the rest of the country. Native women rarely complain about

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    Columbus discovered the Americas there were individuals living in North America. The Native American individuals‚ also called American Indians‚ had been living on the landmass of North America for a long time and the Americas found that there were more than 10 million Native Americans effectively living on the continent. Once the Europeans touched base in America things turned out to be much different. As time passed the Native American deteriorated. They were constrained off their properties and pushed

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    for everyone to create something together.” This perfectly describes Native American music‚ for the drums are the sole basis of the beat and keep the rhythm going. Once the beat gets going‚ everyone can jump in‚ dance‚ chant‚ and create more sound to make one piece of music together as one. The drums carry out the beat throughout the entire chant and keep everyone in time. Victoria Lindsay Levine wrote in her article titled‚ “Native American Music” and says how “sacred narratives describe the origins

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    lot 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

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