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    Native American culture has impacted America in many ways. Just some of these ways include agriculture, language, and governmental ideas. About four hundred years ago, when the pilgrims came to America, they met Squanto. After it became obvious that they were going to struggle to farm, Squanto, a native American who spoke English, taught them all about how to successfully farm in their homeland (Amenlnckx). Without Squanto and his tribe, the Pilgrims would have likely starved that winter. Native

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    Thomas-builds-the-fire, as we all do, struggles with the idea of race, culture and identity. He is in the band Coyote Springs and feels a deep connection to the Black Americans who created the blues, the music that they play. However, he and his bandmates are Native American and still want to stay true to their own identities. For example, Phil Sheridan, despite having Coyote Springs, whose members were actually Native American, recruited Betty and Veronica, who were willing to do as Sheridan wanted

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    study the Native American Culture. We lodged at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Lakota: Wazí Aháŋhaŋ Oyáŋke), which is the home of the Oglala Lakota Native Americans.     When we arrived at the Oglala Lakota Native American reservation, I sensed an immediate culture shock by being exposed to an almost deserted town with few people, old buildings and small local stores. Everyone knew each other, and it was obvious that the Lakota Native Americans have a great deal of pride in their culture because they

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    Unit One Questions The Native American civilizations were diverse because they lived all over North America. This meant that there were different cultures, religions, languages, and ways of life. There were over fifty four million different people living on North America, who developed over two thousand separate languages. The Native Americans that lived closer or on the coast ate a diet high in fish and sea creatures and Native Americans near forests ate a diet higher in deer, bear, or elk meat

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    settlers came to settle in Washington, it was not empty. The land was already occupied by peoples with their own unique culture, traditions, government, religion and way of life. The settlers were moving into the lands of the native americans. The great difference in culture made conflict inevitable. The Puget Sound war was triggered by the Treaty of Medicine Creek, which forced the Natives to give up large amounts of rich fertile land and placing them on reservations many of which were placed on useless

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    million Native Americans lived on tribal lands. Native Americans lived on Great Plains. That was their natural home and what all they were use to. They also relied on the buffalo for about everything and the horses for transportation. The Indian’s had to do a lot of hard fighting and were mistreated but they stood their ground and never stop their beliefs and the Americans hated it . Native Americans played a major role in American History, as well as a lot of other different cultures but they

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    role and practice of slavery in Native American culture from owning war captives to owning black slaves. The actions by the Native Americans changed as well. Before they utilized war captives, the war captives was used for “small-scale labor”, “ritual sacrifice” and debt slavery. Some Native American tribal groups, such as the Creek, welcomed the offspring of their slaves as family instead of seeing them as inferior people. Additionally, slaves owned by Native Americans were slaves temporarily. After

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    Origins of Native American Culture The disadvantages of farming without metal tools were compounded by the absence of the plow, the wheel, and large domesticated mammals. Like much of Africa, isolation and local conditions in the Americas produced an agriculture that relies solely on hoes and digging sticks. Could stone tools, hoes come and wooden cultivation sticks proficient enough to generate the needed food surpluses to produce great cities? Such restrictions on food production again raises the

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    many cultures may find the story of the creation myth, as well as have their own interpretation of it. The Native Americans have rich history and many myths, but the one legend that is common throughout every tribe is the creation myth. The mythology and culture of the Native Americans was influenced strongly by the Creation myth, which was the foundation of many other myths related to various aspects of the natural world. In Native American mythology, Fred Ramen says of the Native American Indians

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    There was a group of people in North America way before the Europeans made the lands presence known to the world. These people were called the Native Americans. The Native Americans had their world changed by the Europeans. The Europeans went through a plague called the “Black Death”. It whipped out about half of their population. After the Black Death they started the enlightenment. They became more advanced in there technologies. They started to explore and find new areas to claim as their own

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