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    23.1- Latinos and Native Americans Seek Equality • Latinos Join Fight for Equality o As the 1960’s raged on with the Vietnam War‚ the Latino population was almost tripling in size. o They had started immigrating here since the late 1800’s in search of better job opportunities and to escape prosecution from their previous government.  Many Mexicans and Puerto Ricans began setting up communities throughout New York‚ Miami‚ and New Jersey.  Fidel Castro’s rule also played a big role in this mass

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    be slaves overseas. I am talking none other than the Native Americans‚ whom have lived on this continent far longer than when our ancestors migrated here. From the time America was first discovered up until the point of the turn of the 20th century‚ Native Americans have been an oppressed group that is known very well historically. Today I am going to be talking about the immediate oppression started with the first interaction‚ Treatment of Native Americans after the formation of the United States

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    Native American Literature

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    Native American Literature PSC111335-AMERICAN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT Kimberly St. Cin 1/28/2015 Native American Literature 1. What origin is Native American literature? (In other words‚ how did they present their stories/tales?) Their stories and tales were passed from generation to generation. These stories were usually presented by speakers who were focused on their performance. They used different voices‚ hand gestures‚ movements and were very animated. 2. Why is it important to know the origins

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    Native Americans weren’t treated as well as you’d think even after the Civil War. Their land was still taken away. Their way of life was still frowned upon and discrimination was too real for many Native Americans. Going into World War I was hard for them because they still were not seen as citizens even in the 1900’s. They were not even allowed to be considered citizens if they weren’t up to the standards of being “civilized”. During the Civil War the Native Americans had to choose which side to

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    English Views of Native Americans during Catholic-Protestant Conflict in the New World During the 16th and 17th century‚ as settlers from Europe continued to flock to the New World‚ technologies were being introduced that affected English views of Native Americans and how they saw Catholic‚ or more specifically‚ Spanish treatment of the Natives. Many countries wanted superiority in the Americas and to do that they needed more colonists and support from their homelands. To accomplish these goals

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    “I agree that disease was the key factor in the depopulation of Native American in the Americas for the following reasons…” First‚ The Europeans arrive in Americas during. The Europeans brought with them diseases such as. The Native had no immunity to counteract these diseases. These diseases created a epidemic that basically decrease an entire tribe. The Native American vast number of deaths made it difficult for them to fight against the major land take over by the Europeans Source: Brinkley‚

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    Government Policy and Native Americans Not with all the good intentions of all the best American politicians‚ any policies devised to help a Native American Nation could succeed without the full understanding of the diverse cultures within these Native American Nations. Any Policy made in this era is doomed to failure. Government policy and Native Americans in the 30 years or so after the Civil War intended to shift from forced severance to integration into American society.

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    Imagine you an Native American working around your house just peacefully doing what you have to do. Then you see some settlers walking on your land with a gun ordering you out of your land. If you were that Native American what would you do? Native Americans once had all their land and were living peacefully then they signed a piece of paper and lost it all and got moved away. Then settlers and miners kept on taking and taking and taking their land away from them breaking the paper the Natives signed. This

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    Richard Wright’s most prominent works are Black Boy‚and Native Son. According to this source “Blacks had been leaving the South since the Emancipation Proclamation‚ but the numbers coming north increased exponentially with time. In 1910‚ blacks in America were overwhelmingly rural‚ with nine out of ten living in former Confederate states. From 1915 to 1930‚ one million blacks journeyed north. Richard Wright was part of this exodus from poverty and racism. By 1960‚ 75% of blacks in America lived in

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    Native Son By: Richard Wright Native Son by Richard Wright is about a young‚ uneducated‚ 20 year old‚ poor black man‚ who lives is in a 1930’s Chicago society that makes blacks feel obsolete. Bigger Thomas is the main character‚ he is the oldest in his family with a little brother and sister‚ his family depends on him and his mom. Wright describes Bigger as a scared and confused person with very little ethics as they were taken away from him by society. Bigger is scared of white people because

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