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greased pole and attempting to catch a greased pig; all of this happening while townspeople looked on and watched in amusement. The interaction between the students and the Carlisle residents depicts an inherent contempt and resentment of the Native American children when they visited the town. That disdain contradicts the pride mentioned in the school’s accomplishments. Had the local residents truly taken the school’s goal to heart, the students would not…

Native Americans all across North America have been mistreated since the Europeans first arrived. Despite being treated slightly better than the dust on the ground, they mainly kept to their ways. They never took too much from the land, and many tribes had a well formed way of life. Fast forward to around the 1800’s and they are still living this way, but many are being mistreated. Europeans explored and took land at every chance. This led to many of the remaining Native Americans to be on the…

If you want to see the work of a modern Native American artist, look no further than Dana Tiger. She is part of the Muscogee Creek Nation and descends from the Cherokee and Seminole tribes as well. She is a great example of a current Native American artist who has gained a reputation for portraying Native American women throughout her artwork. Dana's Inspiration Dana's love of art seems to run in the family. She comes from a family of famous Native American artist. Her father, Jerome Tiger, as…

From the 1800’s and the struggles of Tecumseh all the way through the 1970’s and the challenges Mary Crow Dog faced, the life of a Native American took great determination. Long before “white man”, Native Americans called America home. Slowly it was all altered. They were forced to give up their way of living, rituals and beliefs, and take drastic measures to prove their equality. In the words of Mary Crow Dog, “I do not consider myself a radical or revolutionary. It is white people who put such…

When a Indian warfare broke out with the white in the 1830s, after that is when most Indian tribes started taking captives. Like the Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, and Wichita tribes. Captives was mostly fraught and lots of hardships, The captives survival mostly depended on the captor and that could vary from tribe to tribe. Different tribes varied on different ways to treat their captives most tribes treated captives with unexpected respect. Tribes would adopt captives into their family and raise…

In 1941, the director of Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Rene d’Harnoncourt and Fredric Douglas, an anthropologist and curator of American Indian collections established an art exhibition, Indian Art of the United States in the Museum of Modern Art. It was organized by prehistoric art, living traditions, and modern-day Indian art. The exhibit included art from prehistoric carvers in the West, Northeast Coast, and engravers in the Arctic, sculptors of the East, hunters, woodsmen, planters and…

Today’s American society, allows some level of flexibility when it comes to the acting out of their gender roles. Women’s role consists of what class they partake in or choose to place their self in. Woman may place themselves in the independent, housewife, workaholics, and or party animal group. The average independent woman consists of having their “own” without a man around. The housewife’s main occupation is running/managing her family 's home for the children and husband to the household…

1830, countless Native American tribes were forced to leave their lands by the United States government. The physical removal is known as the Trail of Tears, for the vicious and brutal conditions withstood by the victims of forced relocation. As an affect, displacement results in loss and pain for social, cultural, and religious values, unique to topography. Overtime, succeeding generations must come to terms with the suffering endured by their ancestry. Although not all Native American tribes…

The Effects of the French and Indian War During the 1754-63 the French and Indian War significantly altered the political, economic, and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies. Political of effects the war included Britain 's disbandment of the salutary neglect policy. Economics is how the economy was doing and if the money was doing good in the region. During the and after the war the economy was chaotic and had an enormous debt that needed to be payed. Finally, an…

The French and Indian War, which occurred during the mid-18th century, was one of the most influential conflicts to arise on the North American continent. During the period, hostility existed between the English colonists and their Native American neighbors; as a result, when the war broke out, colonial unity is argued to have emerged against a common enemy. However, historians disagree whether the war had any transforming effect on early America; historian Peter Silver’s work “Our Savage…