2011 Investigating the Impact of History on Modern Society within Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard Rooted in the shadows of history‚ Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey intertwines personal and historical accounts to scrutinize the impact of the past on the present. Trethewey’s Native Guard is divided into three sections‚ which chronicle her mother’s life and death‚ the erased history of the Louisiana Native Guard‚ and Trethewey’s childhood in Mississippi. These different stories amalgamate‚ and
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•Native Americans and their naming traditions• In the generation that we live in‚ legal names are given. In Native American Culture names are earned. Native American naming traditions are very personal and sacred. Each and every single name has its own meaning and purpose. This are drawn from nature‚ frequently determined by the environment‚ animals or characters. Unlike us‚ their names are the identity‚ are who they truly are. In the Native American Naming Tradition‚ a person could have several
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201 V NATIVE REPRESENTATIONS: MEDIA AND THE ARTS 201 M05_LOBO3944_01_SE_C05.qxd 202 9/9/09 12:25 PM Page 202 NATIVE REPRESENTATIONS: MEDIA AND THE ARTS I n academics‚ the term representations refers to how meaning is constructed in our minds through language; be it words (e.g.‚ writing‚ poetry)‚ music (e.g.‚ traditional‚ modern‚ or rap lyrics)‚ storytelling (e.g.‚ spoken words‚ traditional languages)‚ or visual language (all forms of art‚ filmmaking‚ and performance). How Native Americans
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differences with the Native Americans of the same era. When the Europeans first discovered the Americas in the late 1400s to the early 1500s‚ they expected to find a land filled with savages that had little or no intelligence or technological advancements. However‚ these European explorers came to realize that the Native Americans were far more civilized than they had imagined. Upon reaching North America‚ the first European explorers held to the stereotype that the Native Americans were a primitive
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Lovas 1 The first Native Americans to arrive in North America arrived twelve thousand years ago. 1 They traveled across what scientists and historians call the “land bridge” that spanned the distance between modern day Russia and Alaska. The natives separated into many different factions and fanned all over North America; some tribes became nomadic roaming wherever their food supply went while other natives learned to grow and sew crops. The Native Americans lived in mostly peaceful societies until 1492
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Medical Cures and Healing Beliefs of Native Americans The medical cures and healing traditions used by the Native Americans are rather interesting and different compared to modern day Anglo Saxon cures. Native Americans‚ using their basis of ideas and beliefs‚ have developed a general idea of naturalistic cures and healing processes. Although the cures and healing processes are much different than Anglo Saxon ideas of curing and healing‚ the Native American processes tend to work well and
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Native American music has many different musical styles. Within every Native American tribe there is a variety of musical styles and instruments. In response to the research that I have conducted‚ there are three main musical styles that are going to be my point of focus. The Sioux Grass Dance‚ the Zuni Lullaby‚ and the Iroquois Quiver Dance are the principal methods which contribute to Native American music. The Sioux Grass Dance is considered to be the most popular style of Native
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look at. New England Colonies: Mass Bay viewed the indians as inferior and believed that because of this they were obligated to take the land. Several indian tribes over the 17th century attacked mass bay with the most infamous being King Phillips war (look it up in textbook index if you need more detail). In the Plymouth colony the pilgrims and the natives started off great (first thanksgiving remember?) an english speaking native named squanto was a big reason for their harmony‚ however mass bay eventually
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Perceptions of Native Americans There are preconceived notions about the native peoples of North America. The images best presented can best be summed up in the term "noble savage." This idea represents most people ’s views of the Native American. Here will be discussed some of the ideas of the noble savage and their differences from reality. What is the "noble savage?" It is an idea that represents the romanticized notion of Native Americans as a race of people living in perfect harmony
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diseases to the Native Americans. Those diseases were: Smallpox‚ Measles‚ Malaria‚ Yellow Fever‚ Influenza‚ Chicken pox‚ Syphilis‚ Polio‚ Hepatitis‚ and Encephalitis. Because of the diseases‚ millions of Native Americans were killed. Native American civilizations were also destroyed. European powers built up extensive overseas empires. Large amounts of Europeans moved to America. Native American crops were also brought back to Europe. During that time‚ the demand for African slaves was increasing. Capitalism
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