Indigenous peoples of the Americas

one. We all know America as melting pot ,but in fact its not its more a tossed salad to be more precise. We all coexist together with all of different cultures, religions, and traditions, but we still retain them as separate and being unique. Having said that we have problem in today's society with cultural appropriation…

Piece of Writing: (1) . A piece of writing that reinforced American Westward Expansion was President Andrew Jackson’s State of the Union Address in 1829, which promoted Indian Removal and led to the Indian Removal Act. Both the address and act demonstrated Americans’ mindset of being innately superior to the natives, and encouraged Americans to expand west. In the first few years of the 1800s, the United States acquired additional land, the Louisiana Territory, which promoted citizens to move…

Columbus did lots of horrifying things to a mass of people; both to the europeans and the natives, yet some people get a day off to celebrate his “achievements.” For example, Columbus selfishly mistreated the natives by being a “greedy imperialist who slaughtered and spread disease among the indigenous people and institutionalized the slave trade.” However, John Sebastiano, president of UNICO believes Columbus “globalized our world.” One can argue, Columbus did do horrible things and that the…

Jerry Howarth breaks the dominant narrative of stereotypes in sports by disregarding racist terms when he announces. Howarth’s compassion for indigenous people results in culturally jamming the idea that racism is acceptable. The jamming helps the larger movement of counterculture for which Howarth is a great leader and advocate. He continues to fight for what he believes is just, despite the normalization…

in honor of Christopher Columbus himself and his discovery of the New World. This includes his landing in the West Indies. However, the events placed with him, Columbus had not discovered America at all. This was not his mission, and in the process of doing this, he created turmoil throughout the world. People are supposed to honor Christopher Columbus as one of the most famous explorers. In reality, however, he failed to accomplish his ambition. His responsibility was to discover a water…

Columbus Day should be changed to Indigenous Culture’s Day because we should not celebrate a genocide of an entire culture. It does not matter how “great” and “influential” he was, he wiped out an entire people. In 1451, Christopher Columbus (known in Italy as Cristoforo Colombo) was born in Genoa, Italy. He was born in a nice middle class family, whose father was a wool weaver. He was a normal man, until he started voyaging to Africa and the “New World”. What most people don’t realize is…

strategic and brutal acquisition of Mexico. By conquering the Aztec civilisation, the Spanish were able to expand their empire, spread Christianity further and secure unimaginable riches. However, their arrival brought devastating impacts on the indigenous population such as disease, slavery and destruction of culture. In the 12th century, a Native American tribe called the Aztecs had moved into the Valley of Mexico in search of fertile land. In the Valley of Mexico, the Aztecs had established a…

Throughout the years of the European colonization of the Americas, there were many different experiences in settling these areas. In colonizing the “New World,” the Europeans faced numerous challenges in doing so; including little knowledge of the area they were pressing into, a lack of preparation and supplies, and conflicts with the people already living in these inhabited spaces. In the colonizers’ perspective, it was a large gamble and risk to develop their spheres of influences, or even…

Introduction Everyone has a goal or a mission in life that they want to achieve. There are various ways that these goals can be thwarted. However, these goals can be achieved if one is resistant. Resistance has been demonstrated in a number of ways throughout history and an important time that resistance was demonstrated was during slavery in the Caribbean. Some forms of resistance that the slaves use are running away, destroying property, malingering, thieving, murdering and committing suicide.…

the book overwhelms the plot itself. The agential nature of objects, the non-Aristotelian logic concerning creation stories and the prominence of stories-as-truth shapes the novel so deeply that one could even think of it as a case-study for pan-Indigenous perspective. King’s focus on the personified nature of objects (specifically water) reveals the Amerindian perspective at the heart of his novel. While the telos of knowledge, for Western modernity, is to objectify in order to know, the…