Native American tribes

Since the Natives have arrived in the United States, government officials have not shown any sensitivity in the fight for Native American values and land. As we see in the court case between Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protection Association and North Dakota Access Pipeline, government officials have been obstinate when it comes it giving Native Americans the right to land and religion. Native Americans perchance could have been the first to colonize in America: therefore, why do these…

run right through scared grounds of a native American tribe. While the native American community is outraged by the possible desecration of their sacred ground, many people within the dominant white culture does not see the dilemma. Because of the vastly different views of the land between the dominant culture and the native culture a protest has broken out. The native tribe is pushing for termination or redirection of the pipeline. Whereas outsiders of this tribe are attempting to continue with…

The early use of maize would take years to establish itself with the Native Americans. The maize plant moved north from Mexico into the southwestern North America. Early maize was an incidental crop, the seed were scatter and the resulting crop was gathered. Maize would slowly gain a foot hold and finally become a stable of the Native American diet. Maize would allow the rise of the Anasazi. Climate change and drought would destroy the Anasazi culture, by creating famine. Unable to support the…

Native Americans: Contact and Conflict (3 Discussion Points) 1. What was John Smith’s significance to the Native American stories? Captain John Smith published the story of a young Indian girl, that he titled Pocahontas, though her real name was Mataoka. She had saved his life from death at the hands of her people. This friendly contact between Europeans and Native Americans followed into bloody encounters occurred again and again leading up to the Peqout War. 2. What were the biggest conflicts…

American Indians statistically suffer disproportionately from alcohol abuse compared with other racial groups in the United States. The factors that influence alcoholism among Native populations are still widely unknown, causing great health disparities in their people. To get an accurate perspective on alcohol use among Native Americans, examining different variants such as genetic and environmental factors would help determine if and why American Indians are predisposed to alcoholism. Recent…

The Jesuit Relations are a collection of accounts, as told by missionaries, in their quest to convert Native Americans from their ancestral beliefs to that of Christianity. Allan Greer’s interpretation of these events are well written and in a format which makes available decades of documents. Allan Greer’s readers are provided with this text to study the past as historians do. The major focus is the cohabitation between French missionaries and Montagnais, Hurons and Mohawks. Many of the…

We have all heard the story of Thanksgiving in elementary school. The Native Americans and the British colonists came together to share a meal and celebrate their new friendship. The Native Americans shared their farming techniques and in return the settlers shared their new technology. After that they all lived together in peace. While it would be lovely it all worked out this way, unfortunately their relationship was much more complicated and bloody. Since the time the British settlers landed,…

generations before they are healed. Americans forget they are standing on the heritage of millions of Native Americans that lived there for thousands of years. The Native American peoples have a very rich culture and are mistakenly believed to be “all one type.” Calling all Native Americans the same is similar to calling the people of Europe identical just because they are all vaguely similar. Hundreds of years of racism, genocide, and discrimination, has caused Native Americans have to live on…

stereotypes still accepted in American today is the American Indian mascot. From the little league fields of suburbia to Major League Baseball stadiums - from Pop Warner to the hallowed grounds of FedEx Field, home of the National Football League’s Washington D.C. Redskins - for decades American Indians have been harmed and overlooked by the disregard of their culture by representing teams as nothing more than a mascot. The irrefutable disadvantageous effects on American Indians are outlined…

Washington. Native Americans and their supporters have been protesting since July 2014, when they first learned about the protest, and since then their cries for help have had minimum effect on the process of the pipeline. Everyone will have a time in their life when they have to be as tenacious as they can be to stand up for their rights and beliefs.…