Islamic Society of North America

Should the Indians be removed from the plains? This question probably went through the minds of the federal government many times. What helped them to figure out what to do were the Indians terrible choices that started many conflicts. The Indians who lived in the plains brought buffalo near extinction and broke their treaty; which led to many problems between the white folk and the Indians. The Indians in the plains relied on buffalo. They used their dogs to help them hunt, but the Spanish…

kids of their friends and family. The mother’s eternal glory comes from being able to brag about how smart or talented her kids are and what they have become. This is very different than the way most white parents generally raise their kids. In America, we generally believe in a more individualistic style of raising children. We believe that the child should want to better himself or herself for a better future in a career field that makes them happy. This is different than the Eastern…

Is it true that Leif Eriksson founded America 500 years before Columbus did? Christopher Columbus “founded” America in 1492, but was he really the first? There has been much controversy on who discovered America first. For many the answer to the question is easy: Christopher Columbus, because that is what we were taught growing up, but for some, the answer is not as easy to answer. Some believe that Leif Eriksson and the Vikings arrived in North America 500 years before Columbus did.…

Spain’s goals in colonizing in America revolved around boosting their economy, adding the Spanish culture to the Native Americans’ culture, and finding a shorter route to Asia. Due to the world being much more expansive than people at the time thought it to be, they failed to find a faster and convenient route to trade with the Asians. They did, however, bolster their economical gain by gathering resources and searching for minerals like gold. The Spanish aimed to get as much gold as they could…

tribe, when it originated, had a strong clan system. This was a patrilineal system, meaning that the clans were passed down from the father, and the clans were one of the most important factors in determining where a person stood among the Ojibwe’s society. The clans were named after animals, including names such as; loon, crane, wolf, bear, lynx, and more. Chiefs commanded the Ojibwe tribe at the beginning, and they were mainly from the crane or loon clan. Later, as the clans began…

The Mandan’s of the Great Plains Region The Mandan Indians were a tribe living among other Indians within the Great Plains region. The Great Plains is basically the central area in North American. The Great Plains region consists of various states like Iowa, the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Missouri. It ranges from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. The general region of the Great Plains has a geography typically described as “miles and miles of flat land and gently…

What is this you call property, It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men, the woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him¨? Said a man named Massasoit, an Indian chief in this text you will learn about who Massasoit is and what he did in his life. Massasoit was born in a small native American village known as the pokakent village…

The Anglicization of North America In the late 1600’s, colonists from Britain began building a fast growing civilization in the newly discovered land of North America. The population flourished and rapidly multiplied, forcing the colonists to return back to a process called Anglicization. This process entails reverting back to the traditions that forced the colonists to leave Britain in the first place. Going back to British traditions resulted in multiple lapses in developments in the new…

I’m Filipino and I’m Asian. I’m part of the 5% residing in the US. Most of my family and friends are either immigrants or first-generation Asian Americans. When I first migrated to the US, I lived in Southern California where communities are predominantly Asian. Hollywood, the home of the entertainment industry, is located in Southern California. But where are the Asian Americans in television? We don’t often see them as a lead of a TV show, nor as a part of the main cast. Not only are they…

Commodifications have changed the world in many ways. When Native Americans first had contact with Europeans they had totally different views about the landscape. Contact is immediate proximity, closeness, or association. Landscape is everything that can see and even things that you can not see, minerals, and land that you can not see. Europeans also brought many commodifications with them. Commodifications are the something that is taking and turned into something else like steel is made of…