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    the Virginia General Assembly stated‚ "All servants imported and brought into the Country ... who were not Christians in their native Country ... shall be accounted and be slaves. All Negro‚ mulatto and Indian slaves within this dominion ... shall be held to be real estate. If any slave resists his master ... correcting such slave‚

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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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    Corners. Agriculture and the surplus of turquoise are sustainable to meet the needs of the people. The Anasazi tribe would be a satisfactory place to live due to the fair social structure for both sexes‚ agricultural system‚ gorgeous and safe architecture‚ surplus of turquoise‚ and trading routes. The Anasazi tribe’s social structure is more equally fair to both men and women than other tribes. They are matriarchal‚ matrilineal‚ and matrilocal. The matriarchal system gives women the right to inherit

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    late 1800’s‚ the few Native Americans that were left in the United States were almost completely extinguished. Many different things contributed to their near-extinction‚ some intentional and some unintentional. Some tribes went willingly‚ and some fought to the death. But in the end‚ it was proven that Native Americans and settlers could not live together in peace‚ and Native Americans were the ones at loss. A number of American inventions indirectly hurt the Native Americans. In 1874‚ Joseph

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    Native Americans had inherited the land now called America and eventually their lives were destroyed due to European Colonization. When the Europeans arrived and settled‚ they changed the Native American way of life for the worst. These changes were caused by a number of factors including disease‚ loss of land‚ attempts to export religion‚ and laws‚ which violated Native American culture. Native Americans never came in contact with diseases that developed in the Old World because they were separated

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    historically undisturbed by European influence. There were numerous tribes of Native Americans that had their own land and cultures. The rush to expand west negatively impacted Native Americans by either forever changing their way of living or indiscriminately killing entire tribes. Native American communities faced many issues because of new western settlement. As the American population continued to expand west‚ Native Americans were forced to give up

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    Native Americans‚ or Indians‚ or whatever people might choose call people who first came to North America‚ are pictured with bow and arrow‚ riding a horse‚ and hunting buffalos‚ or with a tomahawk in the hand‚ and a feather in their head trying to fight and be violent. The truth is people only see one side of the story. In reality Native Americans have a complex and diverse culture‚ that has evolved as the time has passed. They have gone from hunting mammoths‚ and collecting wild barriers to farming

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    HIST 172 Sec 06 Mr. Wisialowski Native Americans and their Great Change             From the 1400s to 1877 many historical events have occurred in the growing of the new world. However‚ some of those occurrences have affected many different groups including women‚ African Americans‚ and Native Americans in a negative manner. From the three groups‚ I feel that the Native Americans have seen the most changes in their lives‚ but for the worse. I believe this to be true for many reasons such as; the

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    ​When people look at me‚ they would never categorize me as Native American. When I was a toddler I had long blond hair and a cute button nose. My nose is now a preposterous size and my hair is much darker‚ but still my looks don’t scream Native American. Though my outside does not reveal my cultural ties to America’s first people‚ my identity certainly does. ​I am one-eighth Iowa Indian on my mother’s side. That may seem like a small amount‚ but I grew up taking pride in my ancestry. I vividly

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    on The Native American Boarding Schools‚ the National Government decided that Native Americans will be assimilating into white American culture. The intent existed to turn Native Americans Indians to imitate white men in a liberal civilizing mission. The government wanted the Native Americans to learn English and be domestic. In 1875‚ Captain Pratt decided to take a group of Indians‚ suspected of murdering white settlers and put them in a boarding school. Pratt moved the Native Americans to Fort

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