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    bright and positive time when leaders wanted to claim new land for their country. But‚ what of the people that were already settled in America where Columbus had been so quick to claim for Spain? These people were the real settlers of America‚ the Native Americans as they would be called later on in history. For a long time in America’s history and even up until I was in Elementary School‚ it was being taught that Christopher Columbus was in fact the discoverer of America. The truth‚ as we all

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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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    The initial interactions between the Native Americans and the British is one of the most romanticized topics in literature and cinema. Many descriptions done by early authors like Christopher Columbus‚ John Smith and William Bradford‚ who experienced the encounters with the native people of America first hand‚ are now finding a new life in the modern films and animated cartoons. All these works of art create various representations of the Native Americans. Judging from my previous experience with

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    Army had drastically reduced the numbers of Native American by committing the same actions. Was genocide committed against the Native Americans? Many may argue the decline of the Native American population was caused by new diseases being introduced by the Europeans to which the native tribes had no immunity. Others argue forcing the Native Americans from their homes was a necessity for the development of this new land. However‚ the thousands of Native Americans killed during the Indian Removal Act

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    problems are found in history‚ we just have to look closely for them. Native Americans had and have very culturally different ideas that we need to utilize in order to solve these problems in America. Native Americans can teach us about political structure and about foreign policy‚ and how to handle it. They were extremely innovative and creative in their infrastructures‚ and way of life‚ they were just different from us. Native peoples conserved and minimized waste. Many of these great ideas would

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    The Essence of Being Women and Native. When human beings are uprooted from their ancestral lineage‚ their work‚ social relationships‚ marriage‚ parenting‚ and religion change. The breakage occurs not only at social and economic level‚ but internal as well‚ because of an immense effort made to overcome a strong internal crisis. In general native women used to enjoy great influence and respect from their community. The transformations native woman from Huron and Ojibwa experienced impacted them

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    major “selling points” for mistreatment and the removal of Native Americans was that they were a alien like people who were uncivilized and simple. The dislike for the Native Americans was apparent well before the Indian Removal Act‚ many presidents before Jackson had talked of the importance of europeanizing the Native Americans. Settlers came to know this as the “Indian Problem‚” and their solution for this “problem” was to civilize the Natives by teaching them european ways including‚ conversion to

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    The arrival of Europeans on the North American continent impacted Native American indigenous people in ways that have been discussed in written material of eyewitnesses 500 years ago‚ as well as anthropologists and historians in recent times. The science of human evolutionary genetics has now provided confirmation that the arrival of Europeans on the North American continent catalyzed a demographic disaster for Native American indigenous peoples. New evidence indicates that although the population

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    Hunter Forsythe Professor Neal Barrett U.S. History II November 12 2014 Mistreated Native Americans and African American Native American and African American cultures each have had their own long rich histories from before the white majority arrived in America. But both of their cultures were entirely or practically destroyed from the US government its self through several act. This paper will contain a comparison and contrasts of acts passed onto these cultures. On February 8‚ 1887‚ the Dawes Allotment

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    The neglect of Native American rights traces all the way back to 1830 and stems from the Indian Removal Act. The Indian Removal Act enabled the federal government to exchange Native lands east of the mississippi for land in the west. This land was called the “Indian colonization zone‚” which is located in present-day Oklahoma. Being a big advocate and supporter of what he called “Indian Removal‚” Andrew Jackson signed off on Act. The act explicitly said that the removal treaty negotiations had to

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