Native American Essays

I decided to research about Native Americans, specifically the Cherokee tribe. This culture interests me because they were the first people to cultivate America. I have limited knowledge about Native Americans other than what I learned in grade school around Thanksgiving. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) there are approximately 566 federally recognized Native American tribes in the United States with the most abundant tribe being the Cherokee (CDC, 2015). Like

Native American Reservations Native Americans have extremely high rates of alcohol and drug abuse, especially by young people. “According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, nearly 9.2% of Native Americans ages 12 and older were current heavy alcohol users, the highest rate of any ethnic group. In 2015, approximately 346,000 Native Americans reported binge drinking within the past month” (Guarnotta). This increases the rates of youth dropping out of school, exceeding the rates of White

policies for Native Americans to make American settlers lives better. Federal policies the United States government came up were very inhumane and unfair. A couple of these federal policies are the removal policy, termination policy, and finally the reservation policy. The federal policies deeply affected Native Americans ways of life and their trust in a American settler. These policies could have been modified to make Native Americans better if the United States government and American settlers cared

Native American, or American Indians, have a rich culture comprised of struggle, strife and success. For this paper, i will discuss the Native American Culture and it's history. History Spotted Tail, Lakota Sioux Chief stated: "This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things....This war has come from robbery from the stealing of our land. (Lazarus

The interactions between Europeans and Native Americans have not always been positive. There are numerous difference that interactions between the two groups. Europeans were known as a group that during the 16th and 17th century, made a great deal of change with their religious views. They were once without religion, but were known to turn to sects like Christianity and Puritanism. The Native Americans were a group known to be without religion. These people did not believe it one God and a book to

Gunn Allen both write in their essays of the challenges that Native American women have historically faced and continue to confront to this day. Major contributors to these challenges are the stereotypes and misconceptions by white male anthropologists and missionaries who studied the Native American tribes and found the women subservient and passive. Both of these authors strongly disagree in this characterization of Native American women and instead portray them as important and honored members

What is the Great Plains? What existed there? Is grassland that ranges through the west-central portion of the United States Distinct and highly advanced Native American ways of existence occurred on the Great Plains In the east, it was close to the lower Missouri River and tribes such as Osage and Iowa had more than a span, hunted and established crops and developed in small villages In the farther west, travelling tribes like Sioux and Cheyenne collected wild foods and hunted buffalo In the Plains

Native American Genocide project Essential Question: Why do terrible things happen and what can be done about it? The genocide I want to research is the Native American. I would like to research this because I have always been interested in Natives/Indians since I was little and I want to know how cruel it was for the Natives and why the Americans wanted to kill them and use them as slaves. Many people have said that the natives have had the worst genocide of them all. The Natives Culture,

The Unjustified Removal of Native Americans In The United States "I don 't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."- John Wayne. Even though John Wayne was greatly mistaken, he is entitled to his opinion. There are also others like John Wayne who feels this way towards Native Americans. However I am not one of those people who agree with John Wayne. The

Native American bows have been around for a long time. The Natives needed bows to survive. Bow and Arrows played a very important role in the lives of the Native Americans. Without bows the natives would not have been around for long. Bows were very hard to make and were not easy to use. The bow replaced the spear because the bow shoots faster and harder. They also were easier to carry and had a higher percent of accuracy. The bow was very much needed when they were invented. “ How did Native Americans