Indigenous peoples of South America

class is to be introduced firstly to Canada as a country. The teaching unit thereby chooses a top-down approach to the topic by looking at the overall aspects as for instance {\tql}Government{\tqr}, {\tql}Provinces and Territories{\tqr} and {\tql}People{\tqr} and then closing in on the capital city of the Province Nova Scotia, Halifax, and the poem that draws a gloomy picture of a night around the harbor of this city. During this lesson of getting introduced to Canada, the students are supposed…

Located in Central America, Guatemala has a turbulent history of violence and oppression. The beginnings of injustice trace back to the Spanish colonists who conquered the Mayans (“Guatemala “The Silent Holocaust”: The Mayan Genocide). Subsequently, the Mayan race became inferior and experienced harsh treatment and exclusion. After gaining independence from Spain in the mid 1800’s, Guatemala struggled to remain stable which led to the overthrow of the Guatemalan government in 1954 leaving a…

the most famous and most important discovery was the discovery of the Americas. The discovery of the Americas changed the world and the human race forever because this was the turning point from eastern hegemony to western hegemony due to all the resources, workers, and land that Europe had acquired. Most people believe that Christopher Columbus and the Europeans discovered America but I believe that the Chinese discovered America about 70 years before Columbus. I believe that the archeologists…

Economic and social inequality today can be traced back to settler colonialism. Settler colonialism originated from English colonies which ventured to the Americas. Settlers established colonies there to farm the land and produce raw materials. Raw materials were then exported back to England where they were refined for exporting once more. However, the profit was limited so expansion was necessary. Thus, colonists were required to find more land to use for their colonies. However, there was a…

The two most paramount differences existent among the customs and lifestyles of the indigenous societies of North America and the societies found in Europe, are the influence of religion upon their lives and the role gender played in affecting their society. One crucial difference among the European and North American societies, is the role religion played in shaping the customs and lifestyles within them. The varying differences among the religions of these societies affected the way they…

- Nation-states play a large role in American history, and are vital to the existence of the United States. A nation-state is the joining of one or many nationalities to create a formal political union, just like the (now) fifty United States of America. If the colonies were not able to unite as one in the beginning, the United States might not exist today, but instead be a continent full of many small countries like Europe. The melting-pot culture that the United States is known for today is…

others in humankind. It has been a piece of the American scene almost since the of North America starting in the seventeenth century. Different gatherings have carried the biggest part of it, showed in terrible laws, social practices, and criminal behavior coordinated toward an unemotional and factual gathering. No American should be racist. There are such a variety of people in the States, such a variety of people with a wide range of skin color and everybody should admit to each other.…

European settlers. Being completely frank, I have come to a conclusion that I cannot accept an association with such catastrophically destructive group as the white European culture; I want to make changes to society by educating its young people. In any case, people of European decent are the ones that started this mess, so we need…

12th in America that celebrates the explorer from Spain, Christopher Columbus. He was born in Genoa Italy, and always wanted to explore. He left Spain in 1492 at the age of 19 to sail around the word and hopefully land in Asia (Klein). Schools teach that Columbus was a very heroic person, and that he discovered America.However, Columbus Day should not be celebrated because Christopher Columbus did not actually discover the Americas, he did terrible things to the natives, and many people don't…

The Endless War When people of modern times think of genocide their minds often wander to Hitler’s merciless execution of non-Aryan people, or perhaps the more recent Rwandan genocide between Tutsis and Hutus. What about the genocide on American soil that nearly resulted in the extinction of an entire people? Arguably the largest mass killing of a specific race and lasting over five hundred years it is still up to debate as to whether the killing of the Native Americans was a genocide or not.…