Indigenous peoples of the Americas

where the rapidity at which Cultural globalization is increasing is really high. Now days people are really free with each other and how we can get whatever we want anywhere on the planet. This motivates small, indigenous groups, and brings them out in the world, mixes them with the world and makes mother earth a global village. This brings all of us together. This has helped the world by, accepting people the way they are and by not to differentiate others by many factors which deface humanity.

native people of the Americas were much worse with devastating death tolls, enslavement, new diseases and racist attitudes towards them. Though it would not be fair to say that the Europeans did not share in negative consequences or that the indigenous people did not gain any advantages. The greatest negative consequences for the Europeans due to the European expansion are a

physical bodies of the Native Americans, but to their minds as well. The shift in indigenous education was a destructive one; Western education completely overtook the indigenous education that had thrived for generations. Instead of allowing education to benefit both indigenous and European peoples, it was used as a tool to destroy indigenous culture. When the settlers from Europe and Spain first came to the Americas, “indigenous men and women articulated their petitions for more educational spaces” (Díaz

When people in many cities around the world protest, it uplifts others to fight for what they believe in versus others who may disagree. People around the world in many races and ethnicities in November 26, 2016, have been protesting to change the world due to history, rights, etc. Throughout the history of America, Native Americans are the first to live in the Western hemisphere. Columbus Day is taught to children in schools as him being the first to explore the “New World” but in true light, Columbus

subsequent and ever growing throngs of European immigrants to the shore of what would become the United States of America. With the invasion of Europeans into the new world came the European practice of settler colonialism. “European expansion took three forms: networks, the establishment of ongoing systems of long-range interaction, usually for trade; empire, the control of other peoples, usually through conquest; and settlement, the reproduction of one’s own society through long-range migration.”

America’s origin story and the history each country in Latin America shares. Chastine’s decision to title his book Born in Blood and Fire was meant to encompass all of Latin America, its rich history, and its people. The Latin America that millions of people live in today was created through bloodshed, the bloodshed of the natives more so than that of Europeans that colonized it. When the encounter occurred millions of the indigenous inhabitants were enslaved and killed due to diseases to which

After decades of conflict, countries across Central America emerged from the 1980s with a renewed possibility. Among the major accomplishments of that era was land reform and the creation of large reserves that aside large swaths of land for the sake of biodiversity. Hundreds of thousands of acres were placed within their borders in the name of conservation. According the forest activists, often overlooked was the role indigenous people played in preserving these habitats in the first place

Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean and discovered what we now know as the Americas… or so it’s been taught. In all actuality, there were already Native people who had been living in the continents for thousands of years. Since 1937, the US has used this “discovery” as a holiday known as Columbus Day to celebrate a man who established the beginning of colonization of the New World. While Columbus did begin the colonization of the Americas, he was not the one who discovered them. History tends to be told from

International Work Group for Indigenous Affair, the native people of America make up approximately 1.7% (5.1 million) of the diverse United States population. While that may not seem like much, it does not mean the indigenous are any less valuable or important than the rest of the population. The indigenous people are a group made up of native people whose line of ancestors started here. Their ancestors were native to, and had a claim to this land before North America was claimed to be discovered

big historical change, Columbus reaches America and “discovers” America 2. Columbus’s contact with the Native Americans “revolutionized the ecologies, economies, and political system of Europe,” so this is a very important day to to be celebrated. 3. His linking with the “New World” transformed the globe and was a world changing moment. Reasons to not celebrate Columbus Day: 1. When Columbus arrived at America, he forced the native people of the Americas of their land. 2. It is a reminder of “‘historic