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    example, expansion in the new world had a negative effect on the Native Americans in North America. The worst effects can be seen in The Columbian Exchange, The French and Indian Wars, and the loss of Indian land. The Columbian exchange was an event where plants, animals, and culture were transported and exchanged between the Eastern and Western hemisphere. These exchanges changed the lives of not only the Europeans, but the Native Americans as well. Europe and the Americas were now introduced…

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    United States, Native Americans have been, more than any other minority groups, the target for racism that led to ethic cleansing by the European settlers and their newly formed country, the United States. These are the native people who live in the land long before European settlers came. They have always resisted assimilating with the colonial culture and becoming a part of the new colonial nation. It was after the Mexicans gained their independence in 1821 that Groups of Native Americans…

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    Semiotics: The Basics. London: Routledge, 2002. Print. Coppola, Jason. "Lakota: The Revitalization of Language and the Persistence of Spirit." Truthout.08 Oct. 2012. Web. 09 Nov. 2015. Deloria, Vine. God Is Red: A Native View of Religion. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Pub., 2003. Print. Henne-Ochoa, Richard, and Richard Bauman. "Who Is Responsible for Saving the Language? Performing Generation in the Face of Language Shift." Liguistic Anthropology, 28 Aug. 2015. Web. 10…

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    In a few sentences, please express: • Your career and ministry goals after graduation After graduation, I want to serve as an educator on the domestic or foreign mission field. Specifically, I wish to serve low-income students on a Native American reservation. In addition, I am currently serving as the Summer Ministry coordinator for the Great Plains Chapter of Child Evangelism Fellowship in South Dakota. I pray God continues to call me to service through CEF and allows me to take up full time…

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    The colonists were weary at first to adapt the ways of the natives, but realized that without them they wouldn’t survive. The food of America was unknown and many worried that it was poisonous. The colonists were unwilling to risk consuming unfamiliar foods; which lead to them dividing up the remaining food supplies…

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    died for a chance at equality. Ever since European colonists and Native Americans met, they were no different from each other. Each of the groups had their own beliefs, and ideas about what liberties they were entitled to. To prove this, they were both willing to do almost anything for freedom and equality, no matter the risk. Settlers from England had to fight the battle of liberty on two fronts. Not only the war with the natives but fighting for their freedom from the mother country. As we…

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    “For some Native peoples, the horse still is an essential part of daily life. For others, the horse will always remain an element of our identity and our history. The Horse Nation continues to inspire, and Native artists continue to celebrate the horse in our songs, our stories, and our works of art.” – Emil Her Many Horses Emil Her Many Horses is one of the many curators at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. More specifically, he is the curator in the Museum Scholarship at the…

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    Hoig argues that Native American history has been distorted to the will of the white man and his main focus is to bring light to the truths of Indian history in the nineteenth century. Hoig explains the truths of tribal warfare, before the white man came to conquer them. He discusses the differences between the white man and Native American accounts on history and of how both Indians and white man have glorified accounts of battles. Overall, Hoig enlightens readers about how the Native Americans…

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    Westward expansion allowed people in politics to obtain power on their policies about westward expansion and how they dealt with the obstacle at the time, whether it be Native Americans or Mexico, most notable was James Polk addition of tons of land from the victory of the United States over Mexico. The reason the people of the United States felt they were allowed to expand west was due to Manifest Destiny. Then, industrialization…

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    used to describe the Native American Indians. The so called “Spaghetti Westerns” were constantly painting these “savages” as less than human. Even John Wayne, who perhaps had more respect than most for Native Americans, still portrayed them in a negative connotation. One of Wayne’s most popular movies, McClintock, has the American Indians stating a party was fun but “no whiskey, so we go home.” This movie was the norm not the exception; time after time the Native American Indians…

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