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Cheyenne Native Americans...Cheyenne Native Americans
The Cheyenne and other Red Indian tribes were the first occupants of America long before the arrival of white European settlers in the 16th century. Hence, they are referred to as Native Americans. They form a significant plains tribe and belong to the Algonquian Indian family. The Cheyenne comprise of two tribes i.e. the Tsétsêhéstâhese and the Só'taeo'o. Members of the Algonquian family had a common territory (present day Saskatchewan province) and language. However in the mid 16th century, they began their southwestward migration in pursuit of buffaloes and game. However prior to this, the Cheyenne resided...
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Addiction and Native Americans.... They also present challenges for the health care professionals and government officials in addressing this problem.
Alcohol and drug abuse among the Native Americans has to be understood and studied in their historical context. Their history has been riddled with violence, poverty, discrimination, and abuse from the dominant White population in America. As a result, they have been exposed to a variety of risk factors which make them more vulnerable to alcohol and drug abuse. When Columbus arrived in the Americas, there were about 4.4 to 12.25 million Native Americans in the United States; their numbers went as low as 250,000 in the...
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Native Americans' music...and Innovation in Native North America, University of Illinois Press. 2009.
Women’s Music:
Gender plays a prominent role within various Native American Communities where men and women portray sex-specific roles in many musical activities. The instruments, songs and dances are often peculiar to one or the other sex as are many musical setting strictly controlled by sex.
Women play a vital role as backup singers and dancers in modern Powwows, while on case of Cherokee people men and women perform separate dances and follow separate regulation during the pre-game events for stick ball, where dances are held. Men dance in a circle around the fire...
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Exploiting the Native Americans...Why and how did the move West disrupt the lives of Native Americans? In what ways did the settlers exploit Native Americans? Despite notable successes with of colonization in the 1600s, colonists of the West had to go through several stages of inconvenient dealings with the American Indians given the fact that the conquest of America back then was not merely the pursuit of a single powerful nation. Besides the English, the French and the Dutch shared a common goal of establishing colonies in the land primarily inhabited by indigenous people whose way of living significantly differed from the lifestyle and economy of the people of...
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Native Americans and US...Native Americans and US
In the year 1613, a free sailor working for a Dutch fur trading company was allowed to live and trade among the Native Americans in Manhattan. In 1619, the first 20 blacks, from the Dutch slave traders were bought as workers in the English northern American colony (Hakim, 2002). Bringing of blacks into America became the first step in creating a relationship between the blacks and the Native Americans.
Like the African Americans, the American natives...
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Native Americans in Texas...of America. The main tribes which occupied this area are the Apache and the Comanche people. Other than these two tribes, Texas also held many other different communities. This paper seeks to discuss the Native American in Texas and their diverse ways of live, as well as their, characteristics.
Characteristics of Native American in Texas
The most ancient Texan groups comprised of nomadic activity as a main culturalactivity. According Elonera’s records made on Native Americans in Texas, about ten thousand years ago, these groups comprised of few people per holding who practiced hunting activities as a source of food....
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Native Americans...4th September Native Americans Native American religions have persisted in history, though through interactions with other religions and cultures, which have influenced the ancient beliefs, and are reflective of trends in beliefs by other immigrant groups into the America. This paper explains the role of evolution of Native American religions as a microcosm of other religious adaptations through compatibility, commonality in diversity, and common religious goals across religions.
One of the ways in which the Native American religions are representative of other immigrant groups’...
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Many Nations Native Americans...Opposition from Eviction The Cherokees are important people not only because they are part of the human race but also are natives of Georgia in United States. The removal of the Cherokees from their ancestral lands by the United States government has elicited sharp reactions from different quarters. There is controversy and suspicion in the manner in which they were forced out of their ancestral land. Their sovereignty was categorically provided under the ruling by the court in 1832 (Worcester v Georgia) but this was not effected by the government. The government has been adamant in protecting this community and their land. There is a group of Cherokee people that want to stay in their homelands spearheaded by Principal...
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Native Americans In Kentucky...not afford the natives time to blend. The Iroquois Indians named the region where the present state of Kentucky “Kentake” or “meadow land”. This meadowland region was the home of four different Native American tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee and Yuchi. The native tribes had their own cultures and traditions that were unique to each tribe despite their shared similarity in dialects.
The Native American’s have been stereotyped by western movies, which depict the frontier when Europeans first migrated to America the newfound land3. Western movies portray the different worldviews that existed between...
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Modern day America...description of John Adams movie.
The culture of certain communities within the colonies and that of the modern day America remain different in a number of ways. The difference is, more so, regarding the so many communities living in these places. In addition, food and clothing of the different groups bring to the forefront the diversity of cultures even in areas that people may look at and think they are minute. The United States of America has a diverse culture of its people because of the large population of more than three hundred and twenty million people. In addition, the Native Americans, Latin Americans and the...
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