Native American Life Research Paper

Native Americans thrived from nature and their way of life depended on the land of the grassy Great Plains. Their life changed due to horses, and then afterward guns, being introduced to them by the Spanish; which made it easier for them to move and hunt. As settlers moved in, the Native nations were treated poorly and had little to no ability to stand up for what they believed in and how they wanted to live with all the restrictions laid upon them. The federal government created policies, such as The Concentration Policy, “relocation”, and The Dawes Severalty Act, as settlers began moving west which eventually lead to many warfares’s.

The arrival of Europeans marked a major change on Native society and it's spirituality. Native Americans have been fighting to

The appearance of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere created a major change in the Native Americans’ lives. We know this because, “As historian James Merrel has described, the invaders created a “new world” for Native Americans…” (2). We can tell that their lives had changed because before they came, they didn’t have to worry about giving their land away or other people taking it. The invasion caused the Native Americans to suffer a lot because they couldn’t live like how they did before the Europeans came. They had to try their best to

There are 529 federally recognized Indian Nations in the United States (National Congress of American Indians, 2003). The United States Constitution currently recognizes these Indian Nations as sovereign nations; but this was not always the case, especially regarding education of Native American students. According to PBS, a program of assimilation education began on the reservations. This was in the hopes that the assimilation of the children would translate to assimilation of the parents. However, this didn’t work in the way that was hoped, so education reformers pushed for Native American boarding schools. Children were taken from their parents (with no legal backing other than assimilation) and sent to boarding schools, where they were

The Native Americans and Europeans had very different ways of life and with the Europeans' arrival, the natives' way of life was altered. They were forced to coexist with European lifestyles and were not able to use the land as they had before. From the time they came to what we call America, 12,000 to 15,000 years ago, the Native Americans have depended on the land to support themselves.  They would move around according to the seasons, and they had very few possessions which eased the effort of moving (p. 38).

By the time European adventurers came to North America, a lot of things were already not in favor of the Native American people. They had problems ranging from a bad economy to weak empires. Of the many problems, there was also natural disasters that created distress amongst the tribes. These problems are what helped the European adventurers to be able to somewhat easily defeat the European adventurers.

As I continued my journey trying to find my Buffalo herd I kept thinking about the Nez Perce tribe and Chief Joseph. The clothing they wore, the headpieces, their hair everything about them was unique. It would be a shame if they changed it because of the wishes of another. Culture is a big part of everyone's life and one can simply not have culture, even us Buffalo have culture. I remember before my herd left me we would all sing songs and enjoy time together while we traveled across the land of the free. I ended up traveling all the way to Oklahoma and I wished I hadn’t. As soon as I arrived I saw a sign that said, “Save the man, kill the Indian”. The Americans had changed the Natives, ripping them of their culture and love. It was a horrendous

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

American Indians did not get scared of the explorers who had came to their land. They most likely were curious to see that there were different people, not just them, living around the world. The European settlers first arrived to see many different Indian Tribes that be made of different cultures. The fact that the American Indians didn't really pay back against the colonists at first sight, gave the colonists a welcoming feel to what they called the "New World". As explorers came to migrate, they found out that there were lots of lands, crops and animals that they never have had access to. Even though the colonists saw this as an opportunity to gain money, the American Indians suffered with the existence of people who they weren't used to

American Indians used horticulture techniques to protect preferred native plants that were used for food, medicine, and to cultivate desired characteristics in those modified for tools and other products. To achieve specific desired traits American Indians practiced soil and weed management. They also used a burning technique, where they burned small tress and brushes where they lived. This resulted in large open corridors which increased visibility, and made it easier to hunt, protect against enemies, and gather acorns and other plant products. The burning of an area stimulated the growth of certain plants such as berry bushes. This aided in production of valued

The tragic plight of the Native American culture can be traced back to the times of Christopher Columbus. The Italian explorer, who was on a mission from Spain, was the first to meet these native people he incorrectly called “Indians.” These people had been living on the North American continent for thousands of years. The settlers arriving in America to start a new life would end up pushing the Native American population further from their native lands and further from their traditional way of life. The history of the Native Americans is one filled with unspeakable horrors perpetrated upon them by those who came to America to find a New World.

The Native American ethnic groups of today, are nothing compared to their ancestors. The treatment, hostility, and silver tongues of the past damage can never be fixed no matter how many words, medals, promises, and gifts you give them. The late Native American culture and its ethnic groups have been unfairly mistreated and misrepresented with lies from propaganda, breach of treaties, and harsh antagonization from American business owners and regular people alike. These actions have put a horrendous reputation on the local native ethnic groups, from past to present, that some Americans may never understand.

I consider Jayar to be one of my friends even though I have never had the opportunity to meet him in person. We become friends through a gaming application and have been friends through there and on Facebook for almost two years. The reason why I chose Jayar for this project is due to the fact that I know his culture and family is very important and one of the main focuses of his life. I have been so envious seeing pictures and videos of his large family gatherings on Facebook. I have been very curious about his family’s structure and culture for a while now because I wish my family’s culture and togetherness was as prominent as theirs. In addition, I thought it would be a great opportunity for me to learn about what it means to be from Guam since I served in the military with many individuals who were from there.

Archaeologists destroy the sites they excavate. This has been one of the major criticisms that has been lobbed at archaeologists for years. When archaeologists excavate a site, the common practice of digging and removing artifacts is sometimes frowned upon by the communities in the surrounding area. In the 1800’s people’s views of indigenous communities where reprehensible to say the lest “American Indians were held to be inferior to civilized men in order to rationalize the seizure of Indian lands, and that eventually, racial myths grew to supplant any other myths about Indians as a justification for waging war on Indians and violating their treaties.” (Watkins 2000: 6) This trend continued into the 1900’s, but the degradation that indigenous and to some extant non-indigenous communities have experienced is still present to this day, but it is not as prevalent as it was in the past. The things that were decimated where Indigenous graves, sacred places, and cultural materials. The practice of looting grave goods has been a problem since Europeans first came to the Americas “The looting of the Native American past began with the very earliest European presence in North America, starting earlier than many would think.”

As European explorers came into the New World around the time of the 1500’s they brought a tremendous change to the Native culture. When the Native Americans made their first contact with the foreigners they also came into contact with many diseases the Europeans had carried over. These diseases instantly began killing the population of the East-Coast tribes. When the European travelers began to come over the sea’s in larger quantities they started to trade with the Natives. The Europeans brought horses, which would allow the Natives Americans to explore larger parts of America and also allow them to accomplish this faster. The Native American people would trade hides of animals for things like guns, and knives. They now killed animals just