Sweat lodges are commonly used in most Native American cultures as well as others. Many people who participate in sweat lodge ceremonies do so for various reasons and all have different outcomes. All tribes are unique and they all seek different benefits‚ individually and in a group. The main purpose of the sweat lodge is purification. When you are in the lodge you can say anything you want to get off of your chest. So usually what’s said in the lodge stays in the lodge. It is commonly used to get
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Native Americans have been around for about 12‚00 years. Native Americans have been protecting their land for a long time. Coal terminals‚ crude oil pipelines‚and transportation of energy are hurting the Native Americans land. One of the things that hurts the Native Americans land is mining. An example from the impacts of mining includes ‚ contamination of soil‚ groundwater and surface water. This happens by chemicals from mining processes. Mining is a big problem to the Native Americans and
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the Pilgrims arrival in the Americas in the 15th century‚ the Americas were inhabited by many Native American Tribes long before. It is estimated that their arrival in the Americas may "have been as recently as 12‚000 years ago or as long ago as 70‚000 years."(2) Assuming the shorter estimate‚ the Native Americans would still "have been on the continent 30 times longer than the Europeans."(2) During this time each Native American tribe developed their own rich and extensive cultures‚ each with their
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Native American Religion When meeting a Native American and you want to introduce them to Christianity‚ you must consider their beliefs also and teach them how to incorporate Christian values too. This may be a very hard thing to do‚ depending on the person and how headstrong they are in their own beliefs. Because of the genocidal actions in the nineteenth century by the Europeans‚ many Native Americans feel we are trying to take everything away from them. They have
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The article that we were assigned to read‚ made me a bit aggravated at some points. To start off‚ there were far too many contradictions in this article to be considered a "good read" in my opinion. The first thing that caught my eye while reading‚ was the giant‚ bold‚ blue paragraph sections that stated "fact." While reading numerous "fact" paragraphs‚ quite a few times I came across the phrase "most likely" "it was assumed" or "points to." These phrases‚ do not point to facts‚ nor do they belong
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with unknown machines and animals they also looked like Gods who‚ what ‚why were they there???‚ with this advantage they conquered a civilization once called‚ The Aztecs. The Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztecs by using powerful weapons such as shotguns‚ canons‚ gunpowder‚ swords killer dogs and furious horses They could advance faster and kill more efficiently . If we compare the difference between Aztecs and conquistadors weapons there is a huge gap between both of them‚ the Aztecs only had
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Squanto Squanto is a Native American who lived in the early seventeenth century in what is now the Northeast United States. When the English came to this area of America to settle‚ they became very fond of Squanto and used him as a translator due to his unique knowledge of the English language acquired through an earlier voyage to Europe. Squanto helped the Pilgrims adapt to their new surroundings by providing them with the knowledge that he and his ancestors used to survive when they first
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entertained the idea of finding a passage to China through unmarked waters. With his assiduousness and persistence‚ his appeal and intelligence‚ he was able to convince the King and Queen of Spain to fund his trip. These issues‚ along with the fact that he had never been a captain on a ship‚ began the fulfillment of a dream built on nothing. These steps taken were the foundation of what would be a great hero and leader. One valuable attribute in any man in who is put into a dangerous position of both
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attack the stagecoach before it nears my village. This will need to be thought about further before any action is taken. We do keep some ties with these people. They have brought with them items that help to increase our hunting efficiency and so we have created trade with them. We take to them animal skins‚ furs and tobacco in return we get horses‚ blankets and guns. With this trade comes a price‚ many people within the tribe feel as though the Europeans are infecting the materials they trade
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past few decades. There was apparently a hunger for foreign conquest. The conflict with Spain derived mainly from the American desire to help the beleaguered Cubans with their independence from Spain. Americans wanted the war‚ which could well have been avoided‚ but they had little understanding of what the reults of the war would be. I believe American entry into the Spanish-American war was not justified. In September‚ 1895‚ came the event which changed the course of the Cuban rebellion against Spain
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