Native American Role Model

Native Americans and Americans today share many values and disbeliefs also. We all have families and try to do everything to protect and help them. We also try to not discriminate against other people. Doing this helps us connect more as people and a nation. Chief Joseph said “I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.” We have opened our hearts and live together more peacefully.

Prior to Western colonization, American Indian women played an important role in their communities. Many women were valued for their contributions socially, politically, spiritually, and economically and were viewed as leaders (Poupart p.171). Men and women each held different duties in their communities; women had important tasks to fulfill such as the taking ownership of land, crops, and decision-making. Viewing genders as equals was important in the Native communities because their differences were seen as complementary and balanced when used together. In some communities, women were seen as slightly inferior to men because they contributed offspring in the sacred creation of life. Oral history stories say that women were seen as the wisest of the group. Women were viewed as the “Light of Knowledge” and were said to “come first and light the way for males…because they are not created with an automatic connection to the Atisokanak World” and need to be guided (Boatman p.61). The roles of American Indian women were respected and honored in communities, unlike in Western culture.

The Northwest Native American tribes, jobs and roles include strict rules and guidelines for each person to follow or you could get in trouble and have to follow the rules of the consequences. The Northwest Native American tribes, jobs and roles consisted of each person in the house and or tribe, a job and were responsible to fulfill the needs of the job, because of their strictness they had to follow very intricate guidelines that most thought would be to strict but then have grown to obey each and every rule to its fullest. Due to the importance of their jobs and or roles and they quite often study ,their roles should be a large section related to the roles they follow deeply in. The roles they follow even though are strict if something happens

The differences between the Native American and European worldviews were shown through their beliefs in religion, everyday living, and stance on nature and resources. Although the two groups had many differences, they tried to be at peace with each other and they succeeded in most areas except a few. The areas where there was not peace led to fighting and destruction. The first difference in their worldviews was religion. The Native Americans worshiped nature, spirits of birds, bears, and wolves.

Zinn explains different forms of equality towards men, women, and children in Native American tribes and compares them to the equality in Europe and the colonies. When Columbus and his successors were not coming into an empty new world, but into a world which places was as populated as Europe itself, where culture was complex, where human relations were more egalitarian than in Europe, and where the relations among men, women, children, and nature were more worked out than perhaps any place in the world. Zinn said “the status of women in Indian tribes are equal, it was better than the status of women in Europe” (5). Women were important and respected in Iroquois society, the senior women in the village named the men who represented the

cautious what we receive for truth, unless spoken by wise and good men. If any thing disagreeable should ever fall out between us, the twelve United colonies, and you, the Six Nations, to wound our peace, let us immediately seek measures for healing the breach.

In the world today, many are cognizant of the injustices faced by Native Americans as a result of the westward expansion of white settlers. Nevertheless, one incident in the antiquity of White-Indian interactions is, in many ways, distinct, and founds one of the nation’s shadiest moments: the aggressive and forced removal of thousands of Cherokee peoples from their ancestral birthplace in the Southern highlands of Georgia from 1838 to 1839. Known today as “The Trail of Tears,” following their eviction, the Cherokee were made to march hundreds of miles through harsh terrain and weather conditions, in order to get to specific reservations crafted for them in the west at that time. This event, however, was seemingly inevitable, given past interactions between the Natives and the government. The Cherokee people, from the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, faced issues involving their cultural identity and property, both of which would evermore change their traditions, customs, culture, and lives. Though from first hand documents we see that the Cherokee were of the more “civilized” tribes that excelled at espousing to Euro-American society, this was not enough to protect them from the wrath of the American government and settlers. Despite their great effort to persist in their land, they lost, but not without a fight. In this paper, I intend to examine the logical and moral arguments made by white institutions, like the Supreme Court, white settlers like William

In the Native American culture, there was a noticeable change in the status of women in the Cherokee nation. Women rarely labored in the fields because duties were “assigned them by nature as Mothers and Wives are well attended to… and cheerfully do they prepare our meals, & for the family they sew, they spin and weave and are in fact a valuable portion of our citizens.” These descriptions of a more civilized culture were hailed in the American press as indicative of the remarkable achievement of an exceptional Indian people. In order to understand the cultural and social changes by Cherokee women, their traditional culture must be analyzed.

I did not know anything about this part of the US history either and it is interesting how all these things happen to the American Indians back then. It still haves a big impact in today’s society They are still fighting for their rights, fighting for land that is sacred for them. There is a lot of money saved on that federal account but like you said each one would get about ten thousand which is nothing compared to what the land is worth to them.

Throughout the eighteenth century, lives of the early western Indian tribes suffered due to the many discriminating opinions of new coming white men. The white people deceived the western Indian tribes in several ways. White men took advantage and persuaded the tribes into signing agreements on a numerous amount of treaties in order to forcibly push them west away from their current lands. The several present western Indian people effectively, although often forcibly, aborted from their homes due to the men seeking new discoveries, the desire for an increase in land, and the white people searching to fulfill their profound desire of supremacy. Not only the social power the men endowed within themselves produced the outcome but, the Native Americans

Sky is eight years old, we have had him since he was three weeks old, he was my baby brother. Sky was birthed and then left at the hospital with many complications, because he has fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) caused from his birth mom drinking while pregnant with him. We were able to adopt him at the age of 1. Sky is Native American, he has dark brown hair and eyes, he is very small for his age because of FAS. Other than his small stature he looks just like any other kid.

In Mary Ho Tippeconnic Fox’s, article American Indian Female Leadership she starts talking about the impact that boarding schools and colonization had on Native American female leadership. She goes on to state the three questions that her and other authors used to conduct a study. The three question were Does ethnicity affect the way American Indian women lead?, Does culture affect American Indian female leadership?, Does culture encourage or discourage female leadership? After getting the results from the 17 women who finished the study, she goes into detail about what their answer means. In addition, about what the women thought were the most important when it comes to leadership them based on their experiences. Fox and the other authors tried to get Native women from all different types of leadership positions giving the study

The Native American people were a humble and self-sustaining race that was taken advantage of and exploited for their generosities. You will see that the Europeans will maneuver and essentially take a land inhabited by Native Americans by a series of actions that took place in the late 1400s to the late 1770s. Europeans will display acts of what seem to be kindness but is just a an act that in turn will weaken the Native American people.

The original inhabitants of the United States are commonly known as Native Americans, American Indians, and Alaska Natives, with American Indians believed to be the most indigenous group (Hagan, 2012). The term “Indians” was coined by Christopher Columbus who considered the native people as an inferior race (Hagan, 2012). At the end of the fifteenth century, the migration of Europeans to the America led to the exchange and adjustment between the Old and New world societies. Most natives lived as hunters and gatherers and the shared hunting ground and agricultural lands. The Europeans however had advanced in that they had property rights in place. These differences led to political tension and ethnic clashes. Most natives succumbed to European diseases to which they had not developed immunity.

Native American or most mistaken as Indians because the historical mistake from way back when a european settler that went by the name Christopher columbus mistaken Native Americans as indians because he believed he had voyaged to India(ducksters(November 20, 2017). The Native American’s culture goes back far and has many traditions which will be going into detail. These indigenous people mostly lived throughout the south and north America and these people were identify by the location they lived in(ducksters(November 20, 2017). Each tribe had their own beliefs and culture and also languages for example Plains Indians who were called Comanche and Arapaho tribes were tribes lived in the middle country.