Native American history

is a series of novels by Robert J. Conley the American author best known for his works based on the history, tradition, folk lore, and experience of the Cherokee nation. The first novel of the Real People series was The Way of the Priests that Conley first published in 1992. Robert was born in Cushing Oklahoma in 1940 where he lived for most of his childhood. A proud Cherokee, he was a lifelong member of the federally recognized tribe of Native Americans called the Keetoowah Band of Cherokee…

James Axtell's’ thesis in Beyond 1492 seems to make the argument that Native Americans never wanted to deeply interact with the Europeans, only that they were forced to do so due to the European invasion of their land. He makes the argument Native Americans were often forced to conform or rebel against the Europeans in their own land. Natives often worked together in ways they never had to before, but Europeans still tried to diminish their power, and over time, they eventually do. Axtell…

“The first American women were Native American women” (Brown). This notion is often forgotten, even as early as the first European conquest of American lands. The invasion of the Europeans on the western end of the globe forever altered the original traditions of natives to the land. Bringing their religious culture across the sea, Europeans struggled to understand the way of life of the Native Americans, and resorted to view them as “savages” and inferior people. In particular, compared to…

I decided that I would explore the Native American way of healing and their relations with the indigenous beliefs (religion). We first need to discuss about the difference between the terms illness and disease. According to Arthur Kleinman, the term disease is defined as the specific diagnose ailment while the term illness is the side effects of the disease treatment and impact on one’s sense of being.15 This is specifically important in Native American culture since they treat illness and…

Great Britain emerged, this conflict led to a war called the War of 1812 or the Anglo-American War in which the United States defended trade law freely with other countries. During this war there were different ideologies and different points of view, there were four main perspectives which were: American perspective, British perspective, Canadian perspective,…

Piece of Writing: (1) . A piece of writing that reinforced American Westward Expansion was President Andrew Jackson’s State of the Union Address in 1829, which promoted Indian Removal and led to the Indian Removal Act. Both the address and act demonstrated Americans’ mindset of being innately superior to the natives, and encouraged Americans to expand west. In the first few years of the 1800s, the United States acquired additional land, the Louisiana Territory, which promoted citizens to move…

Introduction Dating years before the Americans invaded Indian Territory, Native Americans chiefs have been leading their tribes through their gains and defeats. Native American Indian chiefs are almost equivalent to the president of the United States, the only difference being that they only govern their own specific tribe. For every tribe, there is a chief who ensures that their people are taken care of. It is common for tribes to change chiefs, whether it be passed down from generation to…

When the Europeans came to the Americas they left a profound impact on Native American cultures. The reciprocal of that is how the Europeans were also affected by this colliding of cultures. All though the Europeans culture effected the Native American culture in a mostly harmful, and negative way. I believe it was for the greater good, and the establishment of this nation. The Europeans stumbled across the America’s in search for a quicker passage to India, their interests quickly changed…

since descendants of Americans came to America we have always had conflicts with the Native Americans also known as the indians. Either it be a war between the two different races or just fighting over irrelevant things. One of the unforgettable events with Americans and the Native Americans was the Trail of Tears which involves the Cherokee nation. When the Americans moved the indians off of the eastern lands and moved them west, it killed off of thousands of Native Americans making it a very…

mind to learning more about Native Americans and given them the respect they deserve and much appreciate. I will try to educate those around me as much as possible. Going forward I will be certain to keep a more open mind to all minority groups and try to sidestep the ethnocentrism Americans seemed to have all settled into. Relating to my Professional Future Once I left the experience I grasped how comparable my upbringing and values are to those of the Native American people. Values such as…