1. The native Americans survived largely on the resources available in their immediate surroundings. The natives built complex civilizations of great variety that subsisted on hunting‚ gathering‚ and fishing. The varying geographical regions of North America produced many distinct Native American tribes. The cultural features varied enormously from one tribe to another. The Eskimos of the Arctic Circle fished and hunted seals; their civilization spanned thousands of miles of largely frozen land
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Native Americans before contact with Europeans were set in their ways and were fairly advanced people. There is evidence to suggest that people‚ such as the Anasazi were living in large city like areas but had to disperse due to long droughts and disease spreading among them. The dispersed people formed various tribes and continued to live relativity simple lives in areas that were so culturally diverse it is mind boggling‚ especially in the California area. There were around “40‚000 Californians
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Research into Native American Women and Berdachism: A Review of the Literature The purpose of this paper is to explore the lives and different roles of Native American women. In this paper we will discuss the term berdache‚ what it means and how it played an important role in the lives of Native American women. Furthermore we will be discussing an article by DRK‚ in titled A Native American Perspective on the Theory of Gender Continuum. This article will help us discover how berdachism seemed
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The Native American population is comprised of distinct and heterogenous ethnocultural groups that make up about 1.8 million of the total people in the United States. The American Southwest is particularly unique because of the environment‚ the Native traditions and culture‚ and the historical contact with the Spanish as well as the interactions with the United States government. An enclave describes an area surrounded by or within a territory in which the people in the area are culturally and/or
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my opinion‚ the relation between Europeans and the Amerindians were terrible in the last 50 years. It has been terrible since the start because‚ the white men wanted to conquered the Amerindians in a form of mass assimilation. One of the forms of a mass assimilation is to put the Indians on the reservation and be able to control them. There are 64 reservation in the States‚ also the (BIE) or Bureau of Indian Education are responsible for the school educations for native students. The (AIM /ARM) there
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The discovery that Native Americans’ culture is not static‚ is a relatively new one. With the aid of modern archeology‚ we now know that the Natives were very complex and were ever changing. The evidence we have now is still basic‚ but we can still learn a lot from it. Because of the lack of evidence‚ a lot of controversy is attributed to Native Americans. Some people believe that Natives were perfect beings‚ living in harmony with nature and others believe that they were savages due to human sacrifices
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Native Americans: A Marginalized Population Vicki Carter The University of Michigan-Flint Native Americans: A Marginalized Population Over the course of time in our country‚ many groups in our society have experienced being set apart from sustainable communities. Among them are the immigrants‚ the homeless‚ the African Americans‚ those with physical or mental disabilities and the Native Americans. According to McIntosh (1988)‚ “Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral‚ normative
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Without a doubt‚ the Europeans made an enormous impact on the indigenous people of North America. We 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
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way to understand the relationship of Native Americans with the environment and the ecologically noble Indian stereotype that has followed them throughout history. This essay examines the fundamentally Eurocentric attitudes that this very debate entails‚ thereby rendering any possible conclusions drawn to be meaningless due to its lack of understanding of the basic cultural structure it seeks to define. Because of the radically different way Native Americans conceptualize the universe and nature
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developed a selection of stereotypes against the Native Americans‚ ranking them as uncivilized and thus making it easier on themselves to lead the culture into their impossible situation‚ where the Natives have no choice but to either fight and lose or sit and do nothing‚ however if assimilation could have occurred through education or social structure the final outcome could have been mutually just for the two civilizations. The early European influences‚ or prejudices directly linked themselves
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