Native American Character Profile

There are hundreds of Native American tribes and millions of people that are within North America that identify themselves as Native Americans. Each tribe has their own unique customs, language, and myths. However, within the confines of this paper I will take a broad view with regards to Native American customs and traditions from a small sample of tribes that were observed prior to the vast expansion of colonizing the west.

After Europeans first encountered Native Americans they did not fully understand the religions and culture of the different tribes. The Europeans Viewed the Natives as a lesser people that needed to be forcefully assimilate to European standards.The Native Americans traditional religions were throw aside by the Europeans who valued Christianity. They were also viewed as an easy resource and were enslaved.

After the arrival of the Spanish into the New World,the Native Americans lives changed drastically during the 15-16th hundreds. It brought major changes,politically,socially,and economically. The Natives were obviously vulnerable and submissive towards the Spanish.These events that I’m going to talk about shaped and changed the lives of many of Native Americans.It's the most unforgettable history of all times because it was the most unbelievable story.

In American Indian Stories, University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London edition, the author, Zitkala-Sa, tries to tell stories that depicted life growing up on a reservation. Her stories showed how Native Americans reacted to the white man's ways of running the land and changing the life of Indians. "Zitkala-Sa was one of the early Indian writers to record tribal legends and tales from oral tradition" (back cover) is a great way to show that the author's stories were based upon actual events in her life as a Dakota Sioux Indian. This essay will describe and analyze Native American life as described by Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories, it will relate to Native Americans and their interactions with American societies, it will discuss

The American Indian is a very unique and integral part of Amreican history,with a very rich and beautiful cultural background.There are over 558 federally recognized tribes in America right now,and another 126 who have applied for federal recognition.At the time of first contact with Europeans, the United states was fully occupied by Indian Nations and some 300 Indian languages existed,approximately 106 of which are still spoken.The diversity and hetrogeneity of the American Indian community cannot be overstated.

Vanessa Atine is a Navajo Indian that was born in the United States. Her family resides mainly in Arizona and southern Utah on the Navajo reservation. She was born and raised as a Navajo, but did not participate in her culture until she moved back onto the reservation two years ago. The Atine family moved around frequently, they have lived all over Utah and Arizona. When Vanessa was in third grade they moved into the Kearns area and stayed until she was in tenth grade. The constant moving was mainly due to financial instability and job searching. Native Americans do not have all of the opportunities other Americans do when it comes to finding jobs. There is a lot of prejudice and discrimination towards Native Americans dating back to

No one wants to hear stories about domestic violence and sexual assault, but it’s a big issue that needs to be heard out, especially for Native American women. It is estimated that over thirty percent of women in the general United States population have experienced domestic abuse and an even higher percentage for just sexual assault, many of which are based on women of color, which primarily consists of natives. This problem has been around for too long and there’s still limited resources for abuse victims, which needs to change. Too many women are put through abuse which could be prevented if more people knew and were educated on what is happening and sexual assault as a whole.

In the beginning the settlers created the heavens and the earth. For, America was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the continent. Or was it? Why is it that people automatically assume that America started when the settlers arrived, and that there was nothing before? Sure we can read the cute Native American mythology, but aside from that we don’t talk about America before the settlers. Would you like to hear more about the settlers, how America was before they arrived, and are you willing to learn of the holocaust that our history books aren’t willing to tell us about? Good, then keep reading.

There are many important points in this paper. First of all, the predisposition that the new arrivers had towards Native American people, I believe that that selfish and wrong way of thinking that they had was the source of the holocaust that followed. Because, these new arrivers had the belief that everybody that thought in a way different to theirs, was mistaken and that they have the right to change the others’ “wrong” thinking, simply because they thought that the way they perceived things was the “correct” one. Therefore they did not allow the Native American people to show them or to share with them their beliefs, they simply imposed all their rules, beliefs, values and way of thinking. The previous fact also reveals the feeling of superiority

My husband of 5 years, Larry, and I woke around 7 a.m. to finish packing our things into our prairie schooner, in which we bought supplies for and made ourselves. Our 3 year old daughter, Lucy, is still sleeping, so we pack her things too. We pack light, so that our oxen, Moses, Alfred, and Edward, will be able to pull the wagon. Once we leave, we will be leaving our home above Larry’s blacksmith shop in Knoxville, Tennessee. We are also leaving my parents and our closest friends. My husband’s parents are the main reason we're leaving, they both got very sick with tuberculosis and passed away, so we don’t want our child around those sicknesses. In Oregon, we will get free land since we have one man in our family. Except on the way, I know that it will be very hard. I know this because of all the talk inside the coffee shop just 5 minutes of a wagon ride from our home. We have been in there lately because we are buying coffee grounds to take with us on our trip.

The monograph focuses several Native American religious prophets that inspired the Pan-Indian movement to unify the Eastern Woodland tribes together in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Gregory Evans Dowd argues that the narrative examines the religious practices of the Eastern Woodlands Native Americans. Continuing his argument Dowd states that instead of focusing on a particular “Indian point of view,” the monograph investigates two groups the nativists and accommodationists (Dowd, xxii). The author supports his arguments by using journals, military records, and several primary sources. An instance of one of the primary sources that Dowd uses is Benjamin Hawkins’ Sketch of the Creek Country in the Years 1798 and 1799.

Humans in nature are curious and this leads into finding or creating extraordinary things that may one day be value or question by many. As early civilizations emerge, the beginning of many wonders were developed and with great accuracy. Although there was a lack of technology, as we have today, one wonders how some items may have been developed. The Native Americans are just one particular example to analyze. Despite the lack of the tools we have today, their artwork is impeccable and with great accuracy. Their art work and constructions leave one to ponder on how those items were developed. Furthermore, one can also wonder on how records were kept. The number system that we have today was not available to them. Yet, they were able to have some sense of counting. In addition, Native Americans placed importance on specific numbers and this can be seen in both art and their activities.

Native Americans have been in the Americas for much longer than a majority of the races that now inhabit it. Native Americans had lived prosperously on the until the early 1800s when white settlers began their move towards the West. As these white settler came upon the Native Americans they brought with them unwavering beliefs that would end up causing great conflicts with the Native people, who had their own way set of values. It was clear that the white man and the Native Americans could not live among each other peacefully for their values and culture were much too different.

The history of the United States with respects to the time of pre-European contact concerns a history of Native Americans. The history of Native Americans is a history which is often almost totally completely ignored with history is being taught in the United States today. The United States’ Native American people were descendants of the first inhabitants of the American continent who had crossed over into North America through the Bering Straits from North- Eastern Asia. The movement was a continuous series of migration over an extended period. In the 1980 census, the Indian population within the American population was 1,418,195, with 861 living in reservations and treaty lands.(Bailyn, Bernard. The ideological origins of the American Revolution.Harvard

The Native American tribe, the Mandan, settled in modern day North and South Dakota where they carried on with their unique cultures and lifestyle. They also share a nation with Hidatsa and Arikara tribes. The Mandan settled in areas with a climate that ranges from very warm summers to extremely cold winters. This tribe was not nomadic and settled in a certain place for their whole life.