...Native American Indian 1 Native American Candace Schneider Axia College of the University of Phoenix Native American Indian 2 My ethnic group that I belong is Native American, but to be more specific I am part of the Chippewa Band of Indians which is part of the tribe Ojibwa. My tribal reservation is the Turtle Mountain Reservation. The history of my people date back a long time ago on this continent of North America. Native Americans of all tribes have been on this continent before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and before Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Native Americans lived, hunted, endure hardships of war, encountered foreign visitors and many other situations as they lived on this land. According to the book Through Indians Eyes (1995) the first people to migrate to North America arrived long before 4000 B.C. by crossing Beringia which is a land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska (page 12-13). These people spread out all over the land. The people survived by hunting mammoths, mastodons and other large animals during that period of time. People stopped migrating here after the Ice Age ended and the bridge of the Beringia became flooded over by the rising sea. As time went by, these people started to become more advanced by having trade centers, development of weapons, and series of routes to trail on that connected to each other. This is how Native Americans came to be on this land. On this continent the people that migrated...
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...Only about 22% of our country's 5.2 million Native Americans live on tribal lands. Living conditions on the reservations have been said to be "comparable to Third World.” With recent plans to build a pipeline through their burial grounds, Native Americans will no longer own their sacred land, instead, that land will be occupied by a massive oil pipeline. Facing public ridicule throughout the centuries, the Native American community has made advancements toward complete political and social equality. “It is predicted to have a harsh winter this year, if so, we will be making clothing and shoes for weeks!” my older sister Cholena shouts to me, “Catori, would you please just do your job.” Being a 16 year old Native American girl in the early 1600s, means living free while roaming my homeland, which is...
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...Diving Into The White Side American Indians are soon on the road to extinction due to intermarriage with other ethnicities/ races. Their blood lines will slowly thin out, generation after generation; leaving the American Indian population little to none. The United States federal government established a blood quantum for Native Americans to limit their citizenship and leading them on a road to oblivion. Blood quantum is a sense of pride to older Indians- they believe it is a measurement of a sacred identity. Non- Natives may ask, “what is blood quantum?”. Blood quantum is a term that determines one's ancestry background. American Indian blood quantum was established in the early 18th century to limit Native Americans citizenship in the...
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...life had to offer. Mary has always had plenty of ways to eat, wardrobe, and decent housing. As you can tell, you can see how her perspectives towards the Native American’s choice of grub continually changes as she goes along on her journey, and how it correlates to the change within herself. After facing the fate of losing her home and as well as most of her loved ones, she had to bottle up her emotions to keep...
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...important aspect of our lives and although individuals may not realize it, understanding our backgrounds and our ancestors is also important. The Museum of the Mississippi Delta is the museum I chose to visit and I learned so much. It opened my eyes to multiple things that I had no idea even happened or existed in Greenwood, MS. Walking into the museum I expected to see exhibits about cotton and slaves, but it was much more than that. I noticed information on Native Americans, agriculture, and military. I walked around to different exhibits that were located in many different rooms, these rooms showcased different major events and people that were apart of Greenwood history. The Agriculture room was a major exhibit that stuck out to me because I thought I knew a lot of information in this field but I learned so much more. Agriculture has always been a major factor in MS; it provides us with jobs, land, and farming. Agriculture allows us to survive daily because it provides us with different products, food being one main one. Located in this particular exhibit were pictures that...
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...Karen Raybould March 21, 2013 SOCI 1310 Book Review The book Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, an Indian History of the American West written by Dee Brown is a unique look at the “civilization” of the West through the eyes of the Native American populace rather than through the point of view of American settlers. It is intended to open the eyes of the reader, presumably a white American, to what truly happened during the conquering of the American West and dispel the romanticized version of western settlement popular in mainstream media and history. In the author’s own words “Americans who have always looked westward when reading about this period should read this book facing eastward.” (Brown, XXIV). Through his retelling of history, Brown discusses the effects of stereotypes, the influence of European habits of colonization, and the evolution of American policies regarding the native people. This book was written as a revisionist history of the American West from the point of view of the loser instead of the typical history which is written from the winner’s perspective. In that regard it was highly successful as even Native American authors wished they had written the book. “’Every Indian will wish he had written it,’ said Vine Deloria, author of Custer Died for Your Sins. ‘I wish I had.’” (Brown XVIII). In this work the author presents the history of the Native Americans from their own words and records. He has painstakingly combed through military negotiation...
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...Jaime Huamani HIS 148-American History to 1865 Professor Palenscar February 4, 2013 Rowlandson’s Captivity Imagine yourself in a point of time where Puritans whose village would be attacked by Native American Indians. A book called Classic American Autobiographies tells about a short narrative story called A true history of the captivity and restoration of mrs. Mary rowlanson. Around the 1600’s, a puritan women named Mary Rowlandson would be captured by Indians and held captive for eleven weeks until she could finally escape. She was only able to endure her captivity only through the faith in God. Instead of Mary facing hardships daily from the Indians, she continually traced the goodness of God in keeping her safe from even further harm. That’s why in the following one will understand about what we learned from the Native American Tribe, the view that Mary wants the readers to see, and if any change upon Mary of her thoughts and behavior as time goes by. One will learn about the Native American Tribe that was holding Mary Rowlandson in captivity. Firstly, the Indians are to be described as beasts, barbarous creatures, murderous and wolves. These descriptions are taken from the Mary personal statement describing her personal feelings and actual experiences while watching horrific scenes taking place before her eyes. On page 28, Mary states “There was one who was chopped into the head with a hatchet, and stripp’d naked, and yet was crawling up and down. It was...
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...Native Americans and Jamestown colony comparing: The Native Americans and the European settlers of Jamestown really did not have much in common, mostly because of the way that the Native Americans treated the land. Native Americans used every resource of the land wisely and carefully. If they hunted a deer, they would every ounce for that deer for something. But whereas, a European might only use the parts that they needed, and throw out the rest. By that time the Europeans were very high in knowledge and technology, and only some Native American groups in the North had the same tools as the Europeans had. The settlers had guns and metal tools that made life a bit easier. Oh, a bit about the lands that the Native Americans and new settlers shared, the native Americans protected their land, they didn’t cut down many trees. For, their religion taught them to care for nature and they might have a better afterlife. Whereas the Europeans of Jamestown; they had religions of Christianity but they didn’t practice their faith (in my eyes) towards nature and the Native Americans. Pocahontas: We all know the Disney version of what happened to Pocahontas… But what really happened??? ‘Pocahontas’ was her childhood nickname and it’s translated to ‘little wanton’ meaning she was playful and outgoing and hard to control. When she was born she had stayed with her mother, until she was of school age did she go to live with her father. When she was about 10 she heard of this colony. She went...
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...Sherman Alexie was born October 7, 1966. Was born with hydrocephalus and went into surgery at 6 months of age. He had lots of seizures as a child and spent a lot of his childhood reading books. After the surgery at a young age he still was able to read at 3 years of age. As a child he was bullied because his head was larger than usual due to the hydrocephalus. He is now a story writer, a poet, and a filmmaker (Poetry Foundation). Sherman Alexie promoted understanding of Native American culture through his literary works including War Dances, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Reservation Blues (Poetry Foundation). Alexie’s text War Dances impacted the way people think. War Dances has short stories and poems...
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...Analysis: The Plague of Doves Western Governors University Analysis: The Plague of Doves There were many compelling choices for my first Introduction to Humanities analysis. But Louise Erdrich had previously caught my eye while reading the course material, and I remember how much her work had made an impression on me; her dedication to writing about the Native American experience, and how multiculturalism in America had not necessarily been kind to them (MindEdge, Inc., 2015). So I was pleased to see that one of the choices was the first chapter of her novel “The Plague of Doves”. After reading the first chapter my initial thought was; “I want to read more!” It was well written, easy to read, and presented the turn of the 20th century life of the Native American vividly. The author’s use of words and prose transported me back to that time, how the narrator’s great-grandparents met, ran away, and eventually returned to the reservation. Their struggle to survive together amidst racial segregation and violence was well interspersed with stories of the burgeoning love life of the narrator in the 1960’s. This was the one aspect that impressed me the most, how the stories of the two generations were interspersed together in a way that tied them together, each story flowing from one to the other, but in a way that was easy to track and understand. The impression that I got from this style of writing was the apparent contrast and similarities of the generations, and at the...
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...offense to the mascot used by both schools. In the case of Florida State University, the school has developed a mascot (Chief Osceola) that portrays the American Indian as an aggressive savage. “When Osceola leads the FSU football players onto the field, he signifies armed resistance, bravery, and savagery, and his appearance builds on the prevailing understandings of Indianness that construct Native Americans as aggressive, hostile, and even violent” (King and Springwood [2000], p. 285). This portrayal of savagery is at the heart of the arguments by native Indians to remove their names from colleges using their image as a motivational and war-like incentive. I have never viewed the mascots of colleges as being an offensive form of racial disparity, but this article made me view this issue from the other side and opened my eyes as to why groups of people may be offended by how their name is being represented to the public. For example, I grew up an avid sports fan, but history never really caught my interest. Therefore, my view of the American Indian is distorted from the reality of their true image because I have only seen their name used as rally call for battle in a football or basketball game. King and Springwood (2000) elaborated on this issue by stating, “To characterize the indigenous Seminole people or any other native nation of North America as warlike or bellicose dehumanizes them and demonizes them. More important, it disregards both their cultures and their histories”...
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...Race and Your Community Race and Your Community I am a first generation Japanese American living in Honolulu, Hawaii. My father moved to Honolulu in 1969, at a request of his company’s boss in order to oversee the trading operations of their American branch in Hawaii. My family liked Hawaii so much that they decided to relocate permanently. I was born two years later, in 1971. My parents initially thought that they were eventually going to return to Tokyo (office headquarters located there) that they insisted I get educated in Japanese, so that I can fit in with my peers upon their return. That never materialized, and after attending the private Japanese elementary school I moved to American high school. It is in high school that I started socializing and feeling more as an American, since at home I was only allowed to speak Japanese. In our class about 70% of students were Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders. According to the US Census “[e]thnic minorities account for 75 percent of Hawaii's population. Asians make up 55 percent, the largest percentage in the nation. Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are 21 percent of the state's population” (Star-Bulletin, 2008). Based on such numbers, it is not a surprise that the majority of students were non-white. About 20% of students in my class are also third or fourth generation Japanese, who cannot speak a word of the language. Apparently their parents cannot speak it either. I was envy in the class, because...
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...Lawrence’s ideas is a world where all ideological concepts and dreams can come to fruition. This is comparable to the reasoning behind creating Hollywood in the early 1900’s. To create fantastical worlds based off the “American Dream”. A dream of becoming the best that you can, a dream where everyone is seen as equal and can become as successful as they wish to be. Commonly, this “dream” state of movies is shown through the relationships between characters, increasingly the “buddy-trope” is used especially in Western style movies. This Western style was first created in the James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Pioneers” as a transition between the English historical romance and the American western. In this novel, he paints a picture of a small...
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...What being an American means to you. America is essentially a spot on earth where individuals display with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. There is a saying, words usually can't do a picture justice; yet to me, the word America is justified regardless of a thousand photos. I have seen numerous photos of America, however not one has caught how superb it really is. America is a position of opportunity, where the individuals are ensured normal rights; rights that have been detracted from natives of different nations. Natives from spots like China would be shot for contradicting their administration; wherein America, we have the right to speak freely, ensured by the first revision. America is a place where there is fresh chances to succeed, where the administration deals with the natives, training, making a general public with a higher expectation for everyday life. America has helped numerous workers set up groups, differentiating the nation with natives from the plunge of the settlers, as well as ethnic greater parts and minorities well. America has advanced from a spot where the men commanded all parts of life to a spot where ladies and men share essentially the same balance in the family unit, working environment, and social scenes. In spite of the fact that wrongdoing and bigotry lash out all through the nation, individuals are not being executed for their convictions. For instance, Hitler ruled with dread, executing individuals on the grounds that they were...
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...“Tonto”, which means silly or dumb and “Ke-mo sah-bee which means trusty scout. I believe that the narrator was Tonto in society’s eyes. The narrator couldn’t even go into a certain part of town without people calling the police because he looks “suspicious”, or walk in a store to get a few snacks without people being scared of him. I believe that heaven represents America and the “American dream” which, to me, is to have freedom, happiness, and wealth. The narrator along with the other Native Americans on the reservation, symbolizes Tonto, he trusts his girlfriend (The Lone Ranger), to help him better himself and reach the American dream but instead she, along with help from others, knock him down and stop him from reaching his dream. The woman that he loved was supposed to be there to help him and encourage him but instead they always clashed and argued. The narrator said that they never physically fought, but she always knew what to say to hurt him. Based on my experiences, most of the people we attach ourselves to, know how to hurt us the most. I think that society as a whole was a symbol of the Lone Ranger. The narrator just wanted to live his life like a regular American but society wouldn’t let him. Everyone put themselves ahead of the Native Americans; they were the scum of the Earth, the Native Americans could never amount to anything in their eyes. 2. It seems to me like Seattle is a pretty big city. We also see that it’s kind of a “stuck-up” place. The police told the narrator...
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