Native American art

such as Upward Bound, Gear-Up, Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), cross country, basketball manager, performing arts, track & field, and Student Council 2015-2016 Student Body President. I am currently involved with a Native American program known as Inter-Tribal Student Association on campus. We are in the midst of mentoring Native American high school students. I was third ranked in my class with cumulative…

The Apache Tribe are known to be North American native people who originated from the southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Not much is known about how the Apache came to North America however, most scholars believe that they migrated from the north and arrived in A.D. 800 or 900 to New Mexico and Arizona. They are known by many names such as Plains Apache, Prairie Apache, or The Apache Tribe of Oklahoma. Nowadays in modern Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona tens of thousands of Apaches…

embodied by the work of many great writers and artists including J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer: “Letter III: What is an American?”. In his letter, Crevecoeur outlines several characteristics of the “new American,” including their willingness to work, progressive attitudes, and diverse yet unified culture. These same ideals can be traced to other American artists and writers in both early and modern America, such as Charles Willson Peale’s painting, The Artist…

and settlement by Europeans radically changed life for local Indians. As Europeans strived to gain the natural resources and land occupied by the Native Americans, Indian policy primarily consisted of treaties. Initially, these treaties addressed issues of trade and establishing…

Anglo-Saxon racial ideology and examines its consequential impact in American history. The book sets the developments of ideologies of post American Revolution and expansion of newly founded America. Anglo-Saxon supremacy allowed for the suppression of other peoples in American history—it justified their enslavement, domination, exclusion, and extinction. A man by the name John L. O’Sullivan, spoke of the term manifest destiny to describe American expansion in the early 1840’s. O’Sullivan…

books, textbooks, and jewelry. The archeologists may conclude that I lived in a culture with the freedom of religion and concern for the earth’s resources based on my Bibles and numerous global warming books. Furthermore, my baby teeth, carved wooden art, clothing, and pressed flowers would enable them to use carbon dating to calculate my relative age range and time period that I lived in. On the opposing end of the spectrum, they may come to drastically different conclusions as well. Since…

miscommunications. Excluding background differences, all people are human. They feel, they cry, they tend and they’re especially prone to mistakes and hypocrisy. In the novel, The Light in the Forest, by Conrad Richter, a white boy growing up in a Native American tribe is to determine where his true loyalties lie. The protagonist, True Son, comes to acknowledge the different pursuits of happiness and perspective of both whites and Indians, and ultimately becomes the wild card between the two…

history far from what we now consider the American Dream. In a time where Spanish soldiers…

biracial roots, from the Native Americans and the whites. Throughout the plot, Zits faces situations that put him into the ropes of understanding and overcoming concepts that help him shape his persona. All the circumstances and obstacles makes him wonder about what it means to understand to come from two different cultures that have been attacking each other for such a long time. As Zits travel through the historical time in both the bodies of white men and Native Americans, the concepts of…

Native Americans have had an estimated 1.5 billion acres of land taken from them by the United States (The Invasion of America). Nearly every tribe’s land has been greatly reduced by white settlers, whether by forceful removal or sneaky laws and enactments. Losing so much land can be devastating to a nation. The location of a nation can determine the natural resources that can be used, the size and population, and the territorial jurisdiction. Land not only provides economic opportunity, but is…