Native American Essay

Have you wondered how everything started? How the Native Americans lived? How the Native Americans get their food? Native Americans were a member of any of the indigenous people but especially Native Americans of North America. We have inherited a lot of things from them like the way they build, the way they make clothes, their music, their religion and the way they get the food. They had many ways to get their food but they had four forms that they usually used that were hunting and fishing,…

Native Americans. They lived in America before it was even called America. They taught the Pilgrims how to farm and influenced the Pilgrim's’ way of life. But, after the Native American exodus from their indigenous lands, onto government issued reservations, they have been ridiculed and called racist names. Now people have decided to use those racist names to represent sports teams. They claim that are honoring Native Americans by using names that reference Native American tribes. Even…

been a large amounts of violence that occurred between the Native Americans and the European settlers. The subject of the brutal confrontation has been widely talked of for several reasons; one of them being was the violence avoidable? It put it simply, no the violence was inevitable. The European settlers and their American descendants kept the Native Americans under their thumbs, unabling them to defend their rights and home. The Natives didn’t have to fight back, but a peaceful protest would…

THE CULTURAL SHOCK OF NATIVE AMERICAN BOARDING SCHOOLS Native American Boarding Schools in the United States was an American effort to assimilate the Indian children, ages three through the teen years, into becoming Americans. In these schools, they would strip the children of their Native culture and introduce American culture. The American government would take the children from their parents to schools that were not located on reservation property, but rather on United States property. The…

These three countries were motivated by the goods of Native Americans had, which shaped their interactions. The colonization was both good and bad. The main motivation for France, Spain and England is to use the native American land to become richer and more powerful in their country, but Spain wanted to expand the Christianity, France was going to convert Christianity and have freedom in the land that they took over. The Native Americans has goods so that why they stayed there and control…

European culture to the Americas, Native American women have been either been portrayed as a squaw or a beautiful princess. And the first thing to be mentioned in a conversation between a native and non-native is that somewhere 7 generations back, their grandmother was a “Cherokee Princess.” While many natives and non-natives handle these situations well or brush it off with a light joke, there’s a over 100 years’ worth of deeper meanings behind these words. Native Americans have been subject to…

ideals. Among these countries, France, England, and Spain emerged most prominent. Their most diverse and interesting encounter was with the Native Americans, who seemed to be everywhere. All of the relationships between these major players and the Native Americans involved religion and ended badly. The French, English, and Spanish all tried to covert the Native Mericans to their religions, thinking that would be better for them. However, they hurt them; the French used them to ward off the…

potatoes. However, our Native American curriculum was simply that: feather headbands and a Thanksgiving meal. I never learned of the wars American Indians had to endure. I never learned of the hardships they suffer daily. I never learned how offensive my cheap beads and paper feathers were. Children growing up hearing the phrase “Indian giver.” They grow up playing Indians and Cowboys. They visit museums…

Industrialization. Beginning in the late 1700’s and advancing into the 1800’s, the Native Americans that had lived in America for the past 12,000 years gradually lost the majority of their land. As shown in Document 2, “Native American Territorial Losses,” the Natives had inhabited all of America excluding the east coast and half of present day Texas. But by 1810, they’d already lost a few states, and gradually, decade by decade, the Native…

civil war. Eventually, all of Americans, Native Americans, and also, the United States Government began coexisting throughout the Western territory. However, unfortunately the journey to achieve this status consumed many lives, brought forth war, and of course, took a tremendous amount of time and effort coming from all three parties to come to a civil agreeance with one another. What was the seemingly untouched West like before white settlers came? Many Native American tribes had been…