Cultural Impacts Of Native American Culture

This paper will briefly cover how the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) treated the Native Americans, during the American Indian Movement (AIM) focusing more in the 1960s-1970s. What initially helped push for the AIM and the end result of it.

Native Americans have been working unremittingly for sovereignty over their own affairs since the very beginning of Euro-American contact. The twentieth century in particular was a progressive time for Native Americans as they continued to fight for sovereignty over their own affairs and Historians have taken note of this. Most historians of Native Americans have given a substantial amount of attention to the Indian Civil Rights Act (ICRA). Many historians concur that the ICRA was a fundamental tool for Natives to not only gain autonomy in a progressively bellicose society, but equally between themselves. After acknowledging that Indian Nations were not invited to the Constitutional Convention and that the United States Constitution was never

American Indian policy in the US had been ever-changing but as westward expansion began the reservation system, rather than cohabitation, was the most popular method for the theoretical protection of native groups. Disregarding the shortcomings of the reservation system, American Indians could live and practice their beliefs as they always

Prior to European colonization, North America was home to up to ten million indigenous people with distinct cultures and hundreds of languages. Within 500 years the population was halved through disease and genocide. Today, Native American’s make up 5.2 million or 2% of the US population. This population has suffered the trauma of genocide, dislocation, poverty and oppression mostly through policies and confrontations with the federal government. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 started the systematic relocation of tribes away from coveted land rich in resources and began the process of forced assimilation of Native American people. Today, reservations are populated by the poorest 1% of US citizens. Inadequate education, a political system of custodianship where the US government acts as a guardian to tribes, soaring unemployment, disproportionate substance abuse rates, and profound poverty have created a climate where native youth have turned to organized crime.

America’s greatest flaw throughout history is how it treats its minorities, especially the Native Americans. From the beginning of European involvement in America, Native Americans have been cheated and mistreated. Even before the United States became a country, European traders would do whatever they could to make a profit, even use the diseases that they carried to begin an epidemic. As shown in the early Franciscan missions, Native Americans were considered heathens that were, at best, simply objects of conversion and at worst subhuman converts that could be used to till fields until they died of disease or maltreatment. Treaties with Native Americans were rarely honored, and they were used as mere pawns in struggles such as the French and Indian War. In “the land of the free”, Native Americans were systematically denied their “inalienable rights,” and the period that most clearly shows this are the 19th and early 20th century. Government policy regarding Native Americans changed from the 1830s to the 1930s, often reflecting the way Native Americans were viewed in that time period.

Throughout the 20th Century we observe Native Americans responding to the discrimination placed upon them by the American government. At the start of the century, many Native Ameri ans hesitantly went along with Anglo-American demands: moving onto reservations, relocating when necessary, and sending their children to boarding schools. They reluctantly adapted to the idea of assimilation. However during the 1930s and 40s many Natives began standing up for their culture and rights as citizens of the United States, protesting and forming organizations to get their problems heard by the only ones who could solve them: the American government. But the 1950s and 60s marked a change in the Native American social justice movement.

government used, and keeps using, the Native American community as a material and political resource. Despite the positive aspects of the relationship between the Native nations and the U.S government, the omission of their contributions throughout history is still a matter of controversy. Fortunately, the Native American Community persists and will continue to persist above the ageless ignorance and abuse of U.S. government, as well as its biased

America in the southeast was home to several Indian tribes. During the early 1800s the main goal of Native American policy was to “civilize” what Americans deemed as “savage” Indians. These policies lead to a cluster of Indian tribes who became

Beginning at the times of European colonization, Native Americans have suffered an immense amount of discrimination (“A Brief History” 2006). These same discriminations are the same as the economic and social problems that minorities have suffered with for years. For the Native Americans, though, the problems are a little different. On top of employment and educational discrimination Native Americans have been unable to hold their old land, traditions, beliefs, and language. Native Americans just wanted to bring back what they once had, and like America’s Forefathers, America continued to take away and prevent them from getting just that

Native american culture is packed with many different things. In this paper I will be writing

"The Center for Advance Research on Language Acquisition goes a step further, defining culture as shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs and understanding that are learned by socialization" (Zimmermann 1). This statement in summary is saying that culture is the way a group of people act due to the society they are in. In the research I have done on different cultures I'd have to say that I'm more influenced by Native American culture. Native stories that I look forward to when I gather with my family, the delicacies that no one cooks quite like my grandma, and the huge celebrations we have that they really immerses me in the culture.

At and prior to the World 's Columbian Exposition, Native American 's belief was not considered as a religion, rather a custom. A custom of a society doomed to be destroyed, if not already so. They were presented and treated as a uncivilized society, and was neglected from the first amendment, in which stated that freedom of religion for all people is an inherent right (American Indian Religious Freedom Act 1978). Native Americans were treated as inferior and denied their religious status, not until the US government enforced the first amendment to protect

In fact, traditions and old teachings are essential to Native American culture. However, growing up in the modern west creates a distance and ignorance about one’s identity. The author takes a more blunt approach to the idea of the Native American

The United States of America has a very tumultuous history with Native American tribes. The country originally attempted to eradicate the Native American populations, but when the attempts did not work the citizens had to learn how to coexist with the tribes. Native American tribes are unique in the United States because they are the only aboriginal peoples that continue to practice a form of self-government in the midst of a new and modern civilization that has come to their lands (Deloria 2). The term nations were given

Conditions for American Indians at this time were harsh. Culturally, indigenous people were discouraged and barred from practicing their religions and ceremonies, and risked persecution if they did so. Because of this, traditions were often practiced in small, secluded groups, and languages that had once been widely spoken were known only by elders and the most devout natives.1 Sacred lands were stripped from the natives, and the government forced multiple different tribes to share restricted amounts of land in reservations. 1