Indigenous languages of the Americas

and Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas by Debra Merskin. The first article discusses what the Indian tribes were and where they resided. There are many common terms to refer to the native people including American Indians, Tribal nations, indigenous nations, first peoples, and Native Americans. Alaskan natives are called by their territories like the Inuits or the Aleuts. There are certain issues with the terms Indians and Native Americans. For one, they are not from Indian, and…

Conserving Cultures Imagine waking up one day and telling your daughter that many people don’t like her because of her heritage. This is the harsh reality that many Native Americans face when raising their children in American society. The article, “What Comes After No I Won’t Just Move On” published in Indian Country Today Media Network contains another story that expresses this problem for Native Peoples. It includes a story written by Adrian Jawort about how his daughter is the newly crowned…

his arrival in their home country, Columbus wrought irreparable offences against native groups in the Americas, as the American Indian Movement (AIM) recounts, “Columbus was the beginning of the American holocaust, ethnic cleansing characterized by murder, torture, raping, pillaging, robbery, slavery, kidnapping, and forced removals of Indian people from their homelands.” Under Columbus, indigenous groups were enslaved and barbarically punished. If they did not pay colonizers…

is divided into ten provinces and three territories, whereby the capital is Ottawa. It is inhabited by approximately 35 million people whose majority lives in the southern area, mostly in urban areas. Canada has, due to its history, two official languages, namely English and French whereby French is predominant in the eastern territory of Quebec and English in all the other parts. However, since Canada is a multicultural country,…

had no plans to return and were never caught. Maroon communities settled in many parts of the Caribbean during slavery. These communities are considered an important part of the African cultural tradition, including music, religious beliefs and language. Also, the African adapted political institutions to provide a means of establishing effective means of government. By doing this, they gained their freedom and no longer had to worry about being someone else’s…

American Holocaust For centuries, the indigenous people of America endured a long period of slavery, mass murder, brutality, and outbreak of imported plagues since the arrival of Columbus in San Salvador in 1492. This year marked the mass extermination of the Natives. In a short period of time, Natives were wiped off so rapidly that, between disease and killings of conquerers, the number of tribal groups decreased by an average of 95% in the first century of contact. The unjustified killing and…

because the stereotypical American Indian still persists both in life and literature. By erasing their languages and teaching European ways exclusively, the Native American culture has slowly disappeared. The culture has been slowly degraded by an increase of acceptance of Native American stereotypical attributes such as alcoholism, laziness, and gambling addictions among others. Indigenous people were deeply affected by European American culture and have been fighting stereotypes to rebuild…

two regions developed in similar way since every group wanted to strengthen their regions politically and economically by creating alliances and increasing trade; however, they did differ due to how the Europeans in the west mainly came to North America in pursuit of independence while the settlers of New Spain wanted to spread their religion. Both New York and New Spain were heavily populated by native groups before European colonization. For instance the Iroquois villages varied in population…

Americans upon their arrival to the New World. Researchers from Germany and the United States have stated, “European conquest triggered the loss of more than half the Native American population.”1 The three main groups that navigated their way to North America were the Spanish, English colonists, and the French. Despite the different groups of new comers, a very small number of them viewed the Native American people as their equals on any scale of tolerance. In today’s society, it still remains…

throughout the world, and much of the Europe 's justification for their imperialism was the type of language and ideas synonymous with The Enlightenment. The rise of…