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    perspectives of stories regarding the Native American culture The debate about insider perspective and outsider perspective regarding Native American multicultural children’s literature (MCL) has been raging for decades. Outsider perspective is when a person is retelling a story about the Native American culture and they are not a part of that culture. The insider perspective is when a Native American story is told from a person that is a part of that culture. The insiders have argued the validity

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    settings gave an opportunity to the Europeans to visit the primitive cultures of the world. As time progress the settling of the Europeans in different areas provided an accumulated firsthand knowledge which defined the means for existence for human beings. By looking around us we can observe the later stages on cultures that are as a result of the process that was initiated at the late age of colonization and exploration. The culture of the people has spontaneously been affected by this occurring changes

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    The American government and society has played a substantial role in the decline of both the Native American and Inupiat culture. They created inhumane boarding schools and oppressing laws that inhibited those of a different culture from being themselves and partook in the urbanization of cultured communities. The following practices need to be stopped and never forgotten so that such ethnocide doesn't happen again. Boarding schools were an issue that plagued both Native Americans and Inupiats

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    Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center to discuss Native American culture and gender. Sabine Lang, a German cultural anthropologist spoke in depth about how gender and sexulaity is incorporated in Native American culture. Lang discussed how Indians were moved without consent and were deviant in comparison to European norms and colonization. The differentiating gender roles challenged the stereotypical norms that were instilled by colonization. For Native Americans, it was common that genders held special

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    Culture is intertwined throughout out everything that Native Americans are. Their religion, way of survival, justice system, holistic views, and so much more, comprise their culture. Over the past 200 plus years, Native Americans have been subjected and forced to conform to European derived ideology. This has impacted Native Americans culture from a past, present, and future perspective. These perspectives will be addressed as well as combined into one. Native Americans have always been present throughout

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    Portrayal of Native Americans in Pop Culture Native Americans have long been featured negatively in media. From barbaric savages to drugged hippies who live without worry, these portrayal of Native Americans are not only false but also shy away from truth about modern Native Americans. Smoke Signals, based on the bestselling book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie, breaks these misconceptions and hits the viewer with cold hard truths. That Native Americans who live on

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    European culture had on the Native Americans were extremely detrimental and trickery with very little benefits; while the Native American culture was the beginning foundation to the introduction of abundance of raw natural resources and survival skills to be used in the new world to prepare them for the biggest economic boom ever. The Europeans brought to America many great products both intentional and unintentional with both positive and negative effects on the Native life and culture. Seeds

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    Native Americans and Asian Americans have historically been cruelly misrepresented in mainstream American media. We see the effects of this in the dancing “Apache” during halftime of a college football game or the ‘model minority’ labelled as foreigners for taking our jobs. While similar in overall degradation of cultural values and public image, I would argue Native Americans have suffered by lack of support for their values and culture within America’s schools and popular culture while Asian Americans

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    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

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    Any level of intrusion and unwanted exposure to another person’s culture will inevitably have a detrimental effect on your own. The Native American Indian people’s forced appropriation of western European culture has had such a negative effect on their culture that many tribes were entirely decimated. The American Indian people’s culture and society was built almost entirely around their connection to the land, which was taken away from them. The Cherokee tribe is an excellent example of the havoc

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