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    Columbus noticed that the Native Americans were well formed in their physical features: handsome bodies‚ good faces‚ and coarse hair. He also noted that they used body and face paint. Some would use it only on their eyes‚ while others would coat their entire body in it. In comparison to Europeans‚ they had wider faces and foreheads and flatter stomachs. Columbus concluded that "they were a people very poor in everything" because the Native Americans would "go around as naked as their mother bore"

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    European and Native American ideas of freedom differed in that liberty and freedom were concepts that were natural ingredients to Native American government‚ where as for Europeans‚ freedom had a lot more to do with “Freedom in Christ” rather than freedoms within the government. Even though in Europe‚ women were being burned alive for being suspected of being witches and criminals were publicly whipped‚ they thought that the Natives were barbaric because they had no formal government. In addition

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    period of American westward expansion‚ settlers and Native americans had contrasting experiences. While Natives were continually and forcefully pushed off their. Settlers were searching for opportunity in the west‚ a land of new beginnings. Native land and culture was all but stifled out by western expansion. The First Way Native Americans were impacted by western expansion was in there land. For example From 1850 to 1870 natives lost most their land. This was to prevent conflict between them and

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    Chapter One: The Meeting of Cultures 1. This is false characterization because several tribes of Native Americans‚ such as the Incas and the Mayas‚ constructed complex political and agricultural systems; as well as developing their own written language and numerical system. Although some lesser known tribes of Native Americans were indeed nomadic‚ such as the Aztecs‚ by the time the Europeans had settled nomadic tribes were scarce. 2. Christopher Columbus was the first official explorer to

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    proposed a resolution to abolish slavery in Washington D.C. in 1849. He was opposed to spreading it to newly founded territories to the west. Although he was against slavery‚ Lincoln was not in favor of equality between the races. His solution was one that made the slaves free‚ but not free Americans: he wanted to send them back to Africa (Zinn 140). Lincoln simply did not see it fit for blacks to live in the same society as whites. He found them to be two totally different races. While campaigning in Charleston

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    Overhunting was a major issue when the Europeans arrived to North America‚ with the North American beaver being most affected by the appearance of the settlers. In the Sixteenth hundreds‚ fashion was in demand with fur being required to fulfill this market [1]. Beaver’s were then hunted by hundreds of men‚ leaving the population to shrink from

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    Hutu some rule in the government‚ Belgium left the Hutu with authority. Juvenal Habyarimana (Hutu) was elected as president of Rwanda. In 1990‚ the Tutsi living Rwanda known as the Patriotic Front raided Rwanda creating a civil war. To promote peace between the two ethnic groups‚ the Rwandan president‚ Juvenal and the Patriotic Front decided to sign a peace treaty. After signing the peace treaty on the way back to Rwanda from Uganda‚ the president’s plane was shot down by who was thought to be the Tutsi

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    Researcher aren’t aware of their own bias toward Native American some people aren’t educated with the history of trauma Native American have suffered and this is why Native American isolate themselves from today’s society. Traditional research address cultural competent with human services must take into account while working with Native American to be respectful and be aware of your own bias and give understand to Native American belief and values. Cultural competence can be summarized with

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    Canada ’s fight for independence was difference from that of the United States. Canada gradually evolved peacefully as a nation while the United States became an independent country through a war. During 1867‚ a Confederation of six colonies of the British North American joined to form a new country‚ Canada. Gradually‚ the military‚ financial and administrative support from the British slowly reduced as the new formed country took charge and more responsibility in the control of its future and destiny

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    started to imitate them at Badami‚ Aihole‚ Ellora‚ Salsette‚ Elephanta‚ Aurangabad and Mahabalipuram. The rock-cut art has continuously evolved‚ since the first rock cut caves‚ to suit different purposes‚ social and religious contexts‚ and regional differences. Alongside the art forms like architecture‚ paintings and sculpture‚ there have been evolving‚ changing‚ transforming‚ folk and tribal art traditions in India. These art forms are expression of people belonging to different cultural and social

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