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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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    Creation Story Even though both stories are about the creation of Earth and life‚ they each have their own unique twist on how the world came to be and how in both stories the brothers represent good and evil. In the Native American version the natives believe that a pregnant woman that lived up in heaven was craving a drink from the roots of the great tree. Tampering with or hurting the trees roots was bad and if you hurt it then bad thing would happen to you. The woman’s husband is a

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    understand the finer points of what it has been to be a Native American throughout history. Our experience has been less than desirable since the 1400’s when Columbus arrived with his men and 17 ships. According to Churchill (1994)‚ upon Columbus’s arrival‚ he was quick to enslave and exterminate the Native Americans; the Spanish colonists instilled their “superiority” through these acts. But it wasn’t just explorers that assisted in the demise of the American Indians‚ the European colonists killed 50%-90%

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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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    President ________ called his policy of influencing other countries without actually controlling them "dollar diplomacy." * WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2. | 22.01-018 |   | The major issue in the Spanish-American War was the independence of * CUBA | | | | | | | | | 3. | 22.01-020 |   | In February 1898 the American battleship ________ mysteriously

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    Cited: Aryn Baker‚ “What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan? Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban‚” Time‚ July 29‚ 2010. Bruce Jentleson‚ American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century‚ 4th Edition Evangelista‚ Matthew. "Coping with 9/11: Alternatives to the War Paradigm."Costsofwar.org. N.p.‚ 12 June 2011. Web. 15 Oct. 2012. <http://costsofwar.org/sites/default/files/artic

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    Artifacts can tell stories. Unlike history recorded or told by human‚ artifacts are capable of revealing the most objective and neutral version of the stories. Behind the sword belonged to Thomas’ Legion‚ there is a history of Native American‚ especially the position of eastern band of Cherokee‚ during the Civil War period. The sword is a Model 1840 Cavalry Saber (M1840) in dark color‚ which used to owned by Colonel Love in Thomas’ Legion. This artifact is 44 inch long with a weight of 2.5 pounds

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    fearless‚ and heroic explorers that sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to discover a new kind of world. The Native Americans believed the Europeans were ruthless marauders. The truth is that both the Europeans and Native Americans’ viewpoints were right. The Americas were unknown and nonexistent to Europeans until their courageous explorers braved the crossing of the Atlantic to find it. To Native Americans‚ Europeans were invaders that had no right to cross into their home lands and force rule upon them

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    English and Native Americans Members of each nation copied relationships with Indians in many different ways. Few Europeans considered Native Americans as equals‚ because of differences in religion‚ agricultural practice‚ housing‚ dress‚ and other characteristics. However‚ the French‚ Spanish‚ and Dutch sought profit through trade and exploitation of New World resources‚ and they knew that the native people would be important to their success. Europeans also wanted to convert Native Americans to Christianity

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    averaging the third smallest state population wise we still had several different cultural differences within the community’s. For instance my town we have a steady population of Caucasian 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

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