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    Native Americans history began thousands of years before Columbus, first European, step foot on their land in North America. The Native Americans are a significant part of the United States culture. Many of the past on stories were created by them specifically. Natives have lived on American land for longer than anyone ever remember. The Native American’s were the first ethnic group to find America, however, they live on this land without no disruption nor struggle. There are different types of tribes in the native American ethnic group that distributes different supplies and foods to each family. Each of the tribes has significant jobs that provide equally to everyone. Many of the tribes creates blankets as well as weave baskets. The men’s…

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    Native American history Name Course Institution Tutor Date 1. Who were the Earliest People in North America according to archeologists? 1. The First Nations 2. The Inuit 3. The Métis 4. The Native Americans 5. The Alaska Natives the first three groups of people are the found in Canada, these are the first nations, the Inuit and the metis people. They are famously known as the Aboriginal peoples of Canada. What do these mean? BCE: it means Before the Common Era. CE: it means…

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    Native American history like others in history was scattered with stories of war. Whether it be the fighting of other tribes or conflicts with white settlers, their history was filled with bloodshed. In the days before the arrival of guns, battles could last days, and casualties could number in the hundreds. While eastern Indians fought almost exclusively to achieve retribution, southwestern Indians clashed with their neighbors both to avenge previous wrongs and to loot them of material…

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    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 shepherds from numerous tribes across the United States…

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    The legal source of Native Americans rights in regards to hunting and fishing can be traced back to the 1800’s. In the 1800’s Native American signed serval treaties with the federal government relinquishing them of their lands. During the abdication of their lands the Native Americans were granted their continual rights to hunting and fishing. Normally, these rights would guaranteed them hunting and fishing rights on the reservation. Due to their not being a clear and concise regulation…

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    irreversibly changed the way Native Americans lived. These settlers brought different ideologies, convictions, religion and diseases, to the Indigenous peoples. There were frequent clashes between the settlers and the Natives over land rights and usage, religious and cultural differences, and, especially, broken treaties (Calloway 3). Some tribes embraced the new ideas and began to incorporate them into their own culture, while other tribes rejected them entirely (Calloway 4). It is not possible…

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    Native American Mythology The Natives did not have the same creation stories. Although they were similar, the natives had creation stories about humans, and animals being created, or just simply why things turned out to be what they are today. There are many native mythologies that have been told on from generations to generations, three of these out of many are The Earth on the Turtles Back, The Navajo Origin Legend, and When Grizzlies Walked Upright. Three of these stories all share the same…

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    Importance of the Event Native Americans, usually comprising of the Red Indians form a paramount part of the U.S. history, considering that they were the original inhabitants of the continent. However, on the arrival of the Europeans in America, Native Americans have undergone tremendous challenges on their land. Apart from being displaced from their land, the Native Americans had other challenges confronting them, including the systematic eradication of their culture and lack of education…

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    From the 1700-1938, the public arena for the debate of assimilation helped get information out into the public eye. Whether the debates were formed through non-Native Americans or Native, the final outcomes were put into essays, letters, pamphlets, speeches, drawings, and other forms of media, pertaining to the different time periods. Without the different public communications platforms, there wouldn’t have been any room for debating assimilation, and the outcome of history would have been…

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    Native Americans are rarely recognized for the significant and truly fundamental impact they made in American history. For the most part, James Axtell states, Native Americans have been regarded as “exotic or pathetic footnotes to the main course of American history.”1 This idea, and the ways Native Americans have been approached in history, as either ‘heroes’ or ‘victims’, all but erase their existence. One of the approaches by historians to Native American history, the ‘contributions’…

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