American Indian Compare And Contrast

Cherokee Indians have been around for many years, but when the topic of Native Americans is discussed it is only about the struggles and hardships they went through but never their actual culture of how and where they originated or how they came to be. There are many interesting things to learn about Cherokee Indians such as their heritage, religion, language, and their traditional songs, dances, and food.

In American Indian Stories, University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London edition, the author, Zitkala-Sa, tries to tell stories that depicted life growing up on a reservation. Her stories showed how Native Americans reacted to the white man’s ways of running the land and changing the life of Indians. “Zitkala-Sa was one of the early Indian writers to record tribal legends and tales from oral tradition” (back cover) is a great way to show that the author’s stories were based upon actual events in her life as a Dakota Sioux Indian. This essay will describe and analyze Native American life as described by Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories, it will relate to Native Americans and their interactions with American societies, it will

Small communities may be miles apart but their living conditions are similar and so are their environments. There are two main similarities between Red Mesa and Chinle; environment and the Native American dominate race. In the two communities some contrasts are; Chinle has more stores as opposed to Red Mesa, Red Mesa has only one store. As for Chinle, Chinle has a bank, on the other hand Red Mesa does not have a bank.

The Plateau Indians lived on the east side of the mountains while the Coastal Indians lived on the west side. I think that the coastal Indians had it easier as they had more resources. Even though the Plateau Indians had horses, they Coastal Indians had plenty of resources due to the marine climate.

Imagine bathing in water so dirty that you come out finding yourself filthier than you were in the first place. Imagine having two armies fighting each other, your enemy has weapons, but you only have perfume and wigs at your side. Envision hearing a loud BOOM and opening your eyes just to see your only companion dead. This was the life of the settlers in Jamestown in the 1600’s. The first load of colonists landed in Jamestown on May 14, 1607.

Before the arrival of Europeans in 1492, many tribes had grown and flourished in the Americas. Most tribes had their own organized governments and religions, but some tribes occupied entire regions, such as the Pueblo tribes of the Southwest or the Mississippi River Valley tribes, and were different from the numerous nomadic tribes. They had extensive trade systems, sophisticated farming systems that resulted in a ready supply of food, and thousands of citizens. The two groups had a lot in common, but they also had several differences that distinguished them. The Pueblo tribes had a more developed sense of unity than the Mississippi River tribes, and this unity gave them an advantage that the Mississippi

The Beaver Wars were fought from 1640 - 1701, this war was also called the French and Iroquois Wars. The war was fought between the Iroquois Confederacy and the French and their Native allies from the Huron and Algonquin tribes who were from the central Great Lakes area (Ohio Valley). The Iroquois Confederacy consisted of Native Americans from five different tribes Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca people who were from the eastern part of Great Lakes (New York state). The Mohawk tribe began to establish trading agreements with the Dutch exchanging beaver pelts for guns, however the Mohawks also wanted to expand their territory expanding their market in the Great Lakes region. The French and their allies took offense to the expansion by the Iroquois Confederacy and a war

Native Americans were discriminated against and forced out of their own lands because the Americans felt inferior towards them. In 1812 the British found themselves at war with the Americans and this was the Native peoples chance to once and for all defeat their white superiors. Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief but he was addressing Choctaws and Chickasaws because he is calling for Native American unity throughout the entire United States. He announces his alliance with the British who are fighting against the Americans in 1812. He urges other Native American tribes to do the same because they have a common enemy. Also, it will be harder to fight the Americans if they are a unified force instead of individual tribes all fighting the common enemy

For my stencil design, I chose to draw a highly contrasted cherokee chief with bold capitalized words saying ‘WE WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN’ blatantly placed in the center. I made the drawing highly contrasted so that the stencil design could be recognizable through only the shadows of the chief. I made the words capitalized to draw attention, and white so that it contrasts the image. The reason why I chose to draw the chief was due to the Native Americans being a “forgotten people”. They are ignored and there is no attention being focused on the racism and erasure of the Native people.

The Ojibwa and Iroquois cultural stories both had settings that were located in Canada. But do you know the differences between their cultures? This instructive essay will teach some major differences between the Ojibwa and Iroquois culture. There are four essential differences that are going to be included in this essay. First, the Ojibwe had more animals invented in their cultural tales, the Iroquoians travelled more in their tales, the Ojibwa shows more uses of spirits in their tales, and finally there are more chiefs showed in the Iroquoian cultural tales.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, when the Europeans started to come over to the new world, they discovered a society of Indians that was strikingly different to their own. To understand how different, one must first compare and contrast some of the very important differences between them, such as how the Europeans considered the Indians to be extremely primitive and basic, while, considering themselves civilized. The Europeans considered that they were model societies, and they thought that the Indians society and culture should be changed to be very similar to their own.

After the signing of The Treaty of Paris in 1783 that ended the American Revolutionary War, it gave the United States all authority over territory that was previously under British rule. This created conflict between States settlers from Georgia and South Carolina that wanted to settle on Cherokee land. To end hostilities between State settlers and Indians the U.S. government enacted the Treaty of Hopewell in 1785 which was a peace treaty between the U.S. and the Cherokee Nation, it also set boundaries and it gave Cherokees a right to remove any unwanted settlers within their boundaries. I argue that due to changes in traditional values, Georgia laws, Indian Removal Act, differing ideas of relocation between Cherokees is what led to the failure in trying to “civilize” the Cherokees and ultimately diving the Cherokee community. Before the Europeans made any contact with Native American, they were hunt gatherers.

European families always put the males first, whereas African and Native American cultures saw the woman as the symbol of family bond. The children were said to be descended through the mother’s side more than the father. Religion was somewhat similar between the Native American and African cultures where the Europeans strongly disagreed with. Africans believed that there was a center power and Native Americans believed there were several deities, where they both believed that focused on nature and the its forces. They both believed that objects (usually scared to them) held sprites of the dad and spirits that can be evil or good. On the other hand, Europeans believed that there was a single deity with written scriptures which was all run through

There was a broad diversity on the view of the world between the Native Americans and Europeans. Together, they created the story of the clash of people, religion, ideas, and cultures.

In her book American Indian Stories, Zitkala-Sa's central role as both an activist and writer surfaces, which uniquely combines autobiography and fiction and represents an attempt to merge cultural critique with aesthetic form, especially surrounding such fundamental matters as religion. In the tradition of sentimental, autobiographical fiction, this work addresses keen issues for American Indians' dilemmas with assimilation. In Parts IV and V of "School Days," for example, she vividly describes a little girl's nightmares of paleface devils and delineates her bitterness when her classmate died with an open Bible on her bed. In this groundbreaking scene, she inverts the allegation of Indian religion as superstition by labeling