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    Problems Afflicting the Native Americans

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    absolutely necessary to look at them from all the sides and to realize their problems. Though the reservations in the USA, in fact, are on a different level of development. The problems of the Native Americans are varying and of different graveness. But one problem produces the next, in many cases. So there is no shortage of the worrying aspects among the American Indians definitely in the reservations as well as outside. There are only 52 million acres left today from the original American Indian

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    policy to begin educating Indians. Another example is Andrew Boxer thought that job opportunities were better in the city than on the reservations. The last example is PBS said that Students were prohibited from speaking their native languages. Native Americans and the girls at St. Lucy’s both endure culture shock by having to go to school, live on some sort of reservation, and learn how to be civil. According to PBS, the Native Americans had to live at the boarding schools all week. Similar to the

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    Many of the Native Americans students are fluently using English as their mother tongue. In The Search Engine of The Ten Indians (Alexie 2003, 1), Sherman Alexie wrote a story about a young college student grew up from Spokane Indian reservation, and she tried to find a Spokane Indian author because she loves the writer’s book. The young Spokane Indian, Corliss, has the opportunity to go to college in Washington State University with the family’s family support. Mandy young Indian, in the

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    Part-Time Indian, Junior faces challenges with himself on the reservation and at Reardan. Throughout the novel many themes are underlined by the problems faced by both Junior and Arnold. Themes including racism, identity, hopes, and dreams etc. In the novel identity is a big topic for Junior and Arnold.. There are two identities represented in the book. Arnold at Reardan and Junior on the reservation. The most people on the reservation are poor and often drunk like Junior’s dad and have miserable

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    Ancient Native American Traditions The novel "Reservation Blues" does not describe or deal with real Indians. The real Native Americans were forever destroyed by the government the second that they set foot upon the makeshift reservation. That very second saw the perish of all the age-long values and traditions that, before that moment, defined, raised, and watched over every Indian boy and girl, every Indian husband and wife, and every Indian father and mother. The U.S. government easily

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    the reservations there are benefits in the freedom of choice that could bring progress, both emotional and socioeconomic. For some of the reservations and towns chosen to focus on the potential and the hopes people have. Local authorities and community leaders are better able to plan and help contribute to their own communities in a faster and appropriate manner that is more effective to improve the wellbeing and prosperity of their communities. Some of the examples would be the reservation that

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    real estate exchanges, but by 1920, a new commodity dominated the auctions held adjacent to the Osage Indian Agency in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. The discovery of oil beneath the rolling hills of the Osage Reservation in northern Oklahoma generated tremendous profits for the tribe, and made the reservation one of the highest concentrations of wealth in the world. Between 1910 and 1930, the Osage accumulated more wealth from “black gold” than was produced by all nineteenth-century American gold rushes combined

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    of things to do, but if you want to ensure you'll get to be apart of one, you'll want to make your reservation sooner rather than later. Here's why you should make you Hawaii charter reservations for your summer vacation now. Availability: When you plan to go on a fishing charter, if you wait to plan, you may not have too many options to choose from when you actually decide to make your reservation. This should come as no surprise, as

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    experience challenges that the average American is not subject to, but Native Americans, who live on reservations, experience a unique set of social hardships. Many of these hardships are due to the fact that they live on reservations where resources and esteem are scarce, but in order to preserve cultural identity and sovereignty, many natives believe it is not only their right to live on reservations, but their duty. Likewise, it is a duty of the United States government to provide these people, who

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    False Believes of Reservation Indians In the late 1400’s a navigator by the name Christopher Columbus was sent in search of a new trade route to the west indies from the motherland of Spain, but was accidentally sent off course during the excursion. As a result, him and his crew members discovered an entirely new land mass that eventually became one of the most famous discoveries of all time. Christopher Columbus and his crew had found a new land inhabited by multiple different cultures and people

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