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    William Truman March 5th 2014 Timeline Part I Major Event/Epoch in American History Time Period/Date(s) Description and Significance of the People/Event(s) to American History 1) Describe three different American Indian cultures prior to colonization. 1421-1521 1492-1504 1541- 1937 Aztec Indians: They were located in central Mexico and they spoke Nahuati language. In 1520-1521 Small pox hit‚ between 10% and 5o% of population was affected. The government was a system of

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    ethnogeriatrics curriculum I choose to read American Indian/ Alaska Native Elders module. This module seemed particularly interesting to me because it’s a population that I rarely hear about‚ especially the older population of American Indians (AI). From what I have learned‚ culturally American Indians have a great respect for people in old age‚ so I was curious to know what that looked like and how that conflicted with the strong opposing views in American society. It was interesting to know the

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    American vs Indian culture No two cultures are the same. The American and Indian cultures have very vast differentiation between them..While the culture of America is a mixture of different cultures‚ the Indian culture is unique and has its own values. One of the major differences that can be seen between American and Indian culture is in family relations. While the Indians are very much family oriented‚ the Americans are individual oriented. In Indian culture‚ the family values are given more

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    First experience of the United States at colonization. It was never the stated intention of America to colonize the Philippines forever “the Philippines are ours not to exploit‚ but to develop and civilize‚ to educate‚ to train in the science of self – government” President McKinley US congress (1899) Objectives: To pursue a manifest destiny for America as world power; To use the Philippines as a source of raw materials for U.S industries and as the market for U.S manufactured

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    focus on Indian Americans and their assimilation in to the United States and its culture. Being a second-generation Indian American‚ I believe that I can relate to this subject well. I and other second-generation Indians Americans face a unique set of entirely different social issues. I will focus on the main social institutions of family‚ education‚ religion‚ politics‚ and compare and contrast the experiences of first generation Indian Americans and second generation Indian Americans. It is

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    governing state of mind; it’s all normal for my eyes. Indian culture has a totally different model compared to the American culture. Indian culture stems from family values. Unlike the American culture the Indian culture has a very strong family base. American families tend to break apart due to individual desires and goals. Indians will by pass anything that appears to have a short term or long term affect on their family. However‚ Americans families will individually make a decision that will separate

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    everything and there was autocratic rule. The winter of 1609-1610 was called the “starving time” The settlers ran out of supplies and resorted to eating leather off their shoes. The survival of Jamestown depended on the crop of tobacco. The Powhatan Indians taught them how to grow it and it would be the biggest success of the colony. John Rolfe exported the tobacco to England and this developed a huge market. Tobacco promoted the plantation system and African slaves were brought to Virginia. The magazine

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    Students at JHU-SAIS went to the National Museum of the American Indian altogether today. The weather was HOT when we were walking there from SAIS (also used the subway too). I saw many food trucks on that way and the smell of those make so hungry because I didn’t have lunch. The curator was Indian and he has unique pronunciation so it was not easy to understand what he says but he spoke slowly‚ so that’s not a big problem. First we saw animal-shaped sculptures and then we saw 4 meaning of the corns

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    Culture Paper: American Indian Pride” December 2. 2012 Survey of Exceptionalities 1. What is the name of this culture? The name of the culture of people I selected is the American Indians of North American. I did not want to select just one type or subgroup of this culture‚ but capture a few elements of the people altogether as one whole culture. The four largest tribes of American Indians are Navajo (308‚013)‚ Cherokee (285‚ 476)‚ Sioux (131‚ 048)‚ and Chippewa (115

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    a significant role in peoples’ lives. Colonization of North America played an important role in shaping lives of indigenous people. The colonizers were Euro-Americans such as‚ Britain‚ France‚ Spain and Portugal. The history of colonization of North America is rich with events that played out upon the indigenous lives and political landscape; the Euro-Americans did not like the indigenous people and did not want them around. Thus‚ Euro-Americans used different methods

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