Indian American

In 1941, the director of Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Rene d’Harnoncourt and Fredric Douglas, an anthropologist and curator of American Indian collections established an art exhibition, Indian Art of the United States in the Museum of Modern Art. It was organized by prehistoric art, living traditions, and modern-day Indian art. The exhibit included art from prehistoric carvers in the West, Northeast Coast, and engravers in the Arctic, sculptors of the East, hunters, woodsmen, planters and…

Perhaps the most obvious ecological change in the Americas after the arrival of the Europeans was the introduction of a series of diseases that practically wiped out the American Indians by the thousands. Disease was undeniably the most powerful weapon wielded by European conquerors. Because they were American Indians were isolated from the rest of human civilization, “the fatal diseases diseases of the Old World killed more effectively in the New, and the comparatively benign diseases of the…

and lived in a variety of environments. These inhabitants are known as the Indians, or the Native Americans, who migrated from Asia roughly 30,000 years ago when the West was going through vast climatic changes due to the Ice Age. The Indians developed new methods of finding food such as hunting in the north, fishing near bodies of water, foraging in the deserts, and hunting and gathering in the forests. The Native Americans utilized the technology of stone to make spears, arrows, and farming…

large amount of supporters that were for permanent Indian country west of the Missouri River. These supporters had objected vigorously to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act for the land set aside for the Indians. Tribes along the Missouri River would be known as eastern Nebraska. Under white influence this side of the land were not particularly warlike or aggressive. But because of need to obtain land, it was first allotment between the Indians and white setters as the tract quickly…

Are Indian mascots honoring or offending American Indians? For thousands of years, American Indians have been fighting to prove who they are. As well as proving what once belonged to them, their land, which was stolen by the Americans. The Americans will say that American Indians should feel proud that they’re being honored as a team mascot; American team names mean honor and respect. That’s just an assumption made by the person who fabricated the mascot, it was never discussed with an American…

From reading the chapter about the American Indians, I was very surprised by all the information I have learned. Before reading this chapter, the idea I distinguished American Indians was that they only believed mainly in the resources that were available to them at the time. A perfect example of this would be the Disney movie Pocahontas, in this movie it seem to show me that they treasured all that was around them from their tribe to mother earth and all the existed. I thought it was very…

Thesis: The Indian Independence movement and the American revolution have their similarities and differences. Throughout world history there have been many different revolutions, some being successful and some being total failures, the two I am writing on were successful, and they changed the world as we know it forever. American Revolution: The American Revolution was much more than a revolt against British taxes and trade regulations. It marked the first time in history that a people…

In the movie “the exiles”, Kent Mackenzie illustrates the urban life of a group of young American Indians living in Los Angeles after urban relocation. They struggle to overcome many obstacles and try to survive in the city, yet they all hold their own visions for their city life. Many American Indians left the reserve, hoping to find a good job, a nice home and education for their children (Rocky Mountain PBS). However, when they arrived at the city, they found that everything they knew was…

objective of exploiting the new opportunities as well as for a better life. However, the Native Americans that had established a territory never allowed them in without an opposition. The fact that the Native Americans had divergent ways of life in terms of social, economic, and political alignments meant that the newcomers were treated differently (Pritzker, 5-7). It was without a doubt that the American Indians and European colonists interacted in a manner that would result to the formulation…

I decided to enroll in the class of American Indian studies because over the summer I learned about the culture of Native Americans from a Pomo native, Betty. I worked at Ross with Betty and one day during our lunch, I asked her what her ethnicity was, and she responded she was Native American. For the rest of our lunch she gave me insight into her world, I learned about the injustices her people suffered due to the American government taking all of their land. She also told me how difficult it…