The Cherokee Indians The American Indian History in the Eastern part of the country is always associated with the Cherokee Indian nation. The Cherokee’s were by far the largest and most advanced of the tribes when Europeans first arrived and came in contact with Native Americans. There are too many tribes to go over background on every one of them‚ so I’m going to focus on the Cherokee’s since many of their ways and customs are so similar to all the other tribes in the East. When Europeans
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Essay for School Students on Indian Festivals A festival is an occasion of enjoyment and celebration. It brings gaiety and mirth thereby strengthening our bond of relationship and friendship. These festivals also promote social interaction and harmony. All nations have their religious and colourful festivals. However‚ Indian festivals are known to attract the world due to their harmony‚ variety‚ colour and excitement. Being multi lingual and multi racial country Indians celebrates a number of festivals
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The Kickapoo Indians Research Objective: The growth of today’s youth in an endangered culture. I. Topic The Kickapoo Indians are a type of Native American people that have tribes across the United States. Stationed in Texas‚ Kansas‚ and Oklahoma‚ the Kickapoo Indians have a culture that has not been looked over and talked about much in our world and lifetime. While they are part of the overall population of our country‚ we know little about them‚ and the influence they have on their children
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unique nation. The uniqueness of this country can best be attributed to by the contributions made by each of the different cultures that call it home. While many of these contributions may go unnoticed some have vastly changed the lifestyles of those who inhibit this land. As it remains well documented the first inhabitants of what was known as the New World were the American Indians. What may have been viewed by outsiders as a simple way of life was much rather a complicated oneness with the land which
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Indians made a huge contribution to our modern culture and life‚ including economic‚ social‚ political‚ and environmental fields. Jack Weatherford in his book Indian Givers stated‚ that Indians who lived on the lands of Americas were very wise men‚ and they have taught the people from all over the world many useful things in many fields like industry and agriculture‚ food and culinary‚ economy and medicine. It is very important for people who live now to understand this and to be grateful for everything
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Native American Assimilation into Western Culture Throughout the 1800s and the early 1900s‚ the American government attempted to assimilate Native American children into the Western culture‚ with all the best intentions (Marr Intro). Through primary and secondary sources‚ we learn how this was done and the mistakes they made in doing it. Primary sources‚ which are documents or other sources of information created at or near the time an event occurred‚ are an essential part in understanding
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COMANCHE INDIANS The Comanches‚ exceptional horsemen who dominated the Southern Plains‚ played a prominent role in Texas frontier history throughout much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Anthropological evidence indicates that they were originally a mountain tribe‚ a branch of the Northern Shoshones‚ who roamed the Great Basin region of the western United States as crudely equipped hunters and gatherers. Both cultural and linguistic similarities confirm the Comanches’ Shoshone origins
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The Ojibwe Indians‚ also known as the Chippewa indians‚ are located all around the great lakes. They are the second largest indian population in Canada and the fourth largest indian population in the united states. The Ojibwe speak the language Anishinaabe‚ part of the algonquian linguistic group‚ which is still widely spoken today by elders. Anishinaabe has a somewhat developed form of pictorial writing system; most of which was recorded on birch bark scrolls and on rock. The use of petroforms‚
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Kurtis Mendonca Anthropology 4 Ethnography Research 10/10/2014 Iroquois Indians The book I used for some of my ethnographic research was the League of the Iroquois by Lewis H. Morgan. The Iroquois were people of the longhouse. Longhouses are long and narrow bark covered homes‚ which contained one large extended family. Within the Iroquois tribe there were five sub clans that made up the Iroquois League which were the Cayuga‚ Mohawk‚ Oneida‚ Onondaga‚ and Seneca. These sub clans made up the
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In the southwestern United States‚ above northern Arizona‚ are three mesas. The mesas create the home for the Hopi Indians. The Hopi have a deeply religious‚ isolated‚ tribal culture with a unique history.<br><br>The Hopi stress group cooperation. The tribe is organized around a clan system. In a clan system‚ all the members consider themselves relatives. The clans form a social glue that has held the Hopi villages together. Clan membership provides a singular Hopi identity. <br><br>The Hopi have
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