Essay On Native Americans

The participants for this study are required to be around the same age and intelligence to ensure that there is control in the study. Since it is controlled, it will ensure more reliability and validity, which will make the data more accurate. Instead of choosing participants from all different ages, choosing high school students from roughly the same age will increase reliability and validity. If the researchers decided to use people from a wide range of ages, some participants would be at a disadvantage. For example, if they decided to use older people their memory may not be as sharp. In addition, if participants were a lot younger then they could be distracted more easily, which will make it harder for them to concentrate on memorizing the numbers from the test. For this reason, the researchers decided to choose participants from high school.

The biggest impact the United States had on the Native American society was that they kept pushing them off of their land. There is a quote from Chief Joseph from document 4, Perspectives from the Chiefs, talking about how the United States keep taking things that aren't rightfully theirs. He compared the US government to grizzly bears and Native Americans as deer. The grizzlies who repeatedly went at the deer needing more. Even after the US was given more land they asked for more. Year after year they were pushed further west and then all around when manifest destiny began. Document 1 shows a map of Native American land loss from year to year. The NAtive Americans have been pushed around since the first English settlers came over. They had lost most of their land between 1850 and 1870. (Doc 1) The US invaded peaceful lands of the Native Americans out of pure greed. In document 3, 2nd Treaty of Fort Laramie 1868, shows a map of a piece of land owned by Indians with a treaty and a few years after. In 1868 there was a treaty that was signed so that Americans couldn’t even enter the land. After gold was found in that area the treaty did not matter. ( Doc 2) The forced them into a reservation nearly ten times smaller than their original land area. Court actions made it worse, their land was even smaller. America forced the Native Americans to go and move to places they did not want to go despite treaties and people’s actions.

The first interaction that took place in the New World, occurred between a group of European settlers and Native Indians, who inhabited the borders of the United States. Indian tribes, who resided in the North, lacked the skills and literacy Europeans had obtained, such as craftsman’s ship of tools, weapons, and wheeled vehicles. However, their simplistic lives allowed them to master skills, which would become important and useful to new settlements, such as farming, hunting, developing structures, and engage in far-reaching networks of trade. Europeans viewed the Natives one of two ways, “they were regarded either as noble savages, gentle, friendly, and superior in some ways to Europeans, or as uncivilized and brutal savages.” (Give Me Liberty

This document presents an argument in a time which the Native American tribes with just bows and arrows could not combat a force that was better equipped like the French or English. Resolving the issue would be to trade with powers that had these new weapons so that they could defeat their enemies and keep their tribes in existence. The new superiority against the enemy would save the lives of many tribal members.

Throughout the years there has been a consistent need for people to reach out to help the Native American community. This is due to the fact that statistics tell us that there are many Native Americans who abuse drugs and alcohol. This sometimes leads to addiction and the consequences they have to deal with are, losing their families, becoming addicted, or hurting their families. It should be taken into consideration that although there are many things Indian country needs to work on, there are also many ways we can help create better spaces for these people to heal from such traumatic experiences. There are many programs available for those going through such circumstances and they should look for help when needed. I believe it is important

One often wonders where the Native North Americans originated from. Some theories have been discussed about the peopling of the Americas. Early theories involving lost tribes and continents were based purely on speculation instead of actual scientific facts. Discoveries made during many archeological expeditions have helped shape the always changing interpretations by adding more questions and more theories. There have been genetic and linguistic studies which raised more understanding and brought new questions.

1979), it performs poorly in correctly classifying Native Americans, especially those from the Northwestern Plains, Central Plains, and Southwest (Gill et al. 1988). Of particular concern is the incorrect classification of Native Americans from the Northwestern Plains, which has been shown to occur 70% of the time when using this technique (Gill and Gilbert 1990).

In analyzing the results of the study, Eyer et al. (2009) found that younger patients had a higher rate of

After the Civil War, westward expansion completely devastates the Native Americans, demanding assimilation to white industrial, legal, and cultural practices. First of all, in Document A, E.A Swan refers to Native Americans as an industry, and states that he intends to “condemn indolence in any and all,” using Native labor for white prosperity. Next, Document B states that the Government should stop acknowledging Indians as official tribes or political bodies. Consequently, taking away the independence of the Native Americans. Later, Document B decrees that the Native Americans will follow the same laws as the rest of the country, forcing bountyless citizenship in lieu of the previous Native organization. In addition to all of this, Document

an a DNA test help you find your Native American Ancestry? After some study and discussion with participants, I’d say the answer is maybe, it depends. Like any genealogical problem, it helps to have a paper trail to follow. If your paperwork doesn’t show any Native ancestry within the last 5-6 generations, then you may very well be disappointed in your DNA results. On the other hand, you might be able to verify a questionable line with a DNA test and some additional documentation. Either way, it requires work on your part because DNA won’t answer all the questions about your ancestry. If only it were so simple.

This means that I was faster at sorting images of younger faces and good words. Like mentioned before, most Americans usually prefer the faces of young people rather than old. One reason that it could have been easier for me to sort young people and good words is because I am currently a young adult. Additionally, the world that we currently live in today stresses that is it much more desirable to be young instead of old. We tend to associate being young with positive aspects such as great physical performance, good health, and no wrinkles.

The first things I think of are that I am a white, female with European ancestry, I have a house, I have no life threatening conditions and I have safe food and water. But, after reading the article by Peggy McIntosh there were a lot of things that are unearned in my life that I didn’t think about being thankful for. There are vast privileges other than the basics that I need to appreciate more. First I came from a wealthy city of Boulder Colorado, which presented me with top tier education in the country and a healthy lifestyle. I also am privileged to have a sister, whom is my best friend and we are free to do any activities together without judgment of society because we are both white females and we don’t have fear about people isolating

The consequences of colonization of 1942 has left many Americans to forget about the first people who inhabited the lands we now call the United States. Not only has it made us forget, but has dramatically affected Indian Country by the lost of culture, language, families, health, food sources, environment, and their overall traditional ways of living. As indigenous people are restoring what was taken away from them, Indian Country is also battling the disease of alcoholism, drug abuse, mental health, physical abuse, lost of Identity, high rates of suicide, poverty, unemployment and systemic oppression. Not to mention, their rights as Sovereign people.

In the Lakota language, “wicozani” is a word that means wealth by living a happy and well balanced life with a physical and mental well-being in conformity with creation. In order to fulfill a life of prosperity and euphoria, it is crucial to be a well-behaved, humane person. In the Native American culture, being an impish, untrustworthy being goes against everything they believe in. One of the most meaningful values to the Native Americans is honesty. One of the most condemned traits is disrespect.

The age an individual feels is related to changes in characteristic ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving over time. As people aged, they become more mature and they approach thing differently and that in a way has effects their personality either positively or negatively. The aim of the study was to find out if age difference has anything to do with personality change.