Indigenous peoples of the Americas

opened my envelope, I found out that my Idea on what I knew about Indigenous people then and now are so different. In my envelope, I wrote that as an Immigrant who is knew to Canada, all I knew about Indigenous people was the Residential school and the Idea that they were the real owners of Canada. But after taking this course, I have come to realize a lot about the Indigenous peoples and not just the Residential school. In my envelope, I explained that the indigenous people are being recognized well by the media, but what I didn’t know was that they were being misrepresented. Through the text book by Belanger (2014), I learnt about…

Do you remember what happened to indigenous people when Europeans arrived in South America in the XIV century with the desire to explore this land? They spoil the indigenous population not only with slave work and forest exploration, but spreading infections diseases among these people who had never contacted many kinds of pathogens. Hill and Hurtado (1996) has found that “first face-to-face contacts result in the death of between one third and half of the native population within the first five…

Every indigenous culture is different and unique in their own way. While many people may express some of the same views and a same indigenous identity, their cultures are based on different histories, environments, and creative spirits. Indigenous people are defined as having a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory, and their cultural or historical distinctiveness from other populations. The concept of indigenous people defines these groups as…

has brought a mixing of cultures. In the New World the indigenous people were manufacturing textiles that were pure red. This caused many people in the Old World to become excited about the true red. In the Old World red, which was not a true red, but a dark orange, textile was very rare and often owned by only rich and powerful people. People in the Americas figured out a way to make red textiles in big numbers from an insect that lives on a prickly pear cactus. The red textile textile…

I would rather celebrate Indigenous People’s Day because Columbus did some bad things. In school, I never learned about all of the injustices committed by Columbus and other explorers of that age because they were only portrayed as heroes. I found that the Washington Post and history.com were the most reliable sources because they were an established publication before the internet and a trustworthy source for facts and information. In the article written by the Washington Post, I was…

Along with other cultural elements, such as food, language, costume, festivals and celebrations constitute as an important role in displaying the syncretism and combination of indigenous traditions and customs and Catholic influence in Latin America. The Latin American festivals and celebrations especially are closely tied to religious practices of the Catholic Church so most of them take place on days according to the liturgical seasons in Catholic Christianity. In Latin America, Christian…

When Iberians conquered the Americas they were on their way to the formation of new racial groups. The three main groups of people were the Spaniards or Portuguese, the blacks and the Indian. Due to the lack of Iberian woman during the colonization period, many Iberian men had children with people from African and Indian descent. In Spanish America Spaniards developed an ethnic hierarchy that placed their ancestry at the very top, while everyone else was seen as inferior. During this time,…

to me the most was Pre-Columbian America by Diego Rivera that features indigenous imagery and creates an alternative view of America. The piece itself was made with oil on canvas with bright colors, which features many scenes that depicts the daily lives of the indigenous people located at the lower half of the artwork – living their daily lives and chores which included preparing food, weaving clothing, building pyramids, farming and making art. In the background with very small detail, Rivera…

century was quite the time for America. It was growing tremendously into the world superpower that it is today and the so called “American dream” was beginning to look like the real deal for certain people. A lot of factors have gone into this, but a question one might have is did race play a role in the shaping of America during this time and if so, how significant was its impact? I argue that through the use of harmful tactics, such as assimilation and dehumanization, race had a tremendous…

The Spanish empire conquered Latin America, which led to the indigenous people conforming to the Spanish way of living and its government. When the Spanish came to Latin America, they didn’t care about the indigenous people. The only thought on their minds was to create a new Spain. In that thought, the Spanish forced the indigenous people to conform to them and do what the Spanish told them to do. Some indigenous people grew tired of it and started to revolt. Two rebellions that pursued during…