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    Natural Cycle Prayer is seen in most cultures as a way to connect to a higher being.  The “Shawnee Native American Prayer” does not meet the traditional requirements of a prayer.  It is not praising or asking for gifts‚ but giving commands only.  Tecumseh shapes this prayer as a list of commands on how to live and die with honor.       Tecumseh uses commands about how to “perfect your life” within the first section to prepare the reader for an expansion on how to live these vague orders out.

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    DBQ #1: Using your knowledge of the time period and documents provided‚ analyze colonial policies toward Native Americans‚ and discuss the impact of these policies on the relationship between the tribes and the new nation. Even though the American expanders had been dealing with the native Indians for western expansion many years‚ the difficulties were at their worst between the years of 1750-1800. The British‚ first settlers in the New World since the Indians‚ wanted to expand their nation

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    longer exist in society by the 1930’s however‚ it was documented that 42 percent of Native American women were still being sterilized during the 1970’s. The Native American community is a subgroup that has high rates of reproduction‚ but unfortunately this community has a large percentage of their people living in

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    Scott Fitzgerald presents his own point of view about the American society in the 1920’s. He believes that people in the East coast lost their values and lost the American dream. He makes Nick Carraway an intelligent young man who isn’t fast to judge‚ is educated‚ who more or less has moïral value‚ and who is also looking. From this point of view we are able to judge other characters and see what F.Scott Fitzgerald thinks about this time in history. From the beginning we can see that at this

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    North American‚ all of South America‚ all of Australia‚ the Pacific Islands‚ South Africa‚ India‚ Thailand and Russia. Welcome to Jennifer Government. The novel can be looked at by a reader as a simple‚ yet innovative story. The novel can also be seen as a deep‚ catawampus story with plenty of plot twists that are nicely blended together. Each successive chapter is told from the view from a different character; each chapter holds a different plot twist that keeps the reader guessing from one paragraph

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    new world are singularly referred to as Europeans‚ each group of people came from a different nation and with different motives and expectations of the new world. Similarly‚ the Indians were neither a united group nor necessarily friendly with each other. Due to the complexity and diversity of these groups of people‚ relations between the Europeans and Indians varied greatly throughout the new world‚ running a spectrum from mutual cooperation to harsh insular conflict. Although often later replaced

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    essential to the locations where early Native American settlements were established? 2. Early cities in the colonies were settled by Europeans from what countries? 3. African Americans migrated to Northern and Midwestern cities during what periods in U.S. history? 4. What factors helped facilitate suburbanization and white flight from central cities after WWII? 5. What are the basic tenets of the Ethnic Enclave Model of immigration and how does it differ from the traditional model of immigrant

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    When you hear the name of one of the great civilization of all time‚ The Aztecs‚ what comes to mind? Is it their most famous leader‚ Montezuma‚ or the man who defeated and conquered them‚ Hernán Cortés? The Aztec’s‚ a Native American civilization from Mexico‚ attitude toward the invading Spaniards had change through the course of interaction with them. For example‚ the first group of people Montezuma were in awe because they believe that the conquistadores were God sent. As Montezuma sent more and

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    Sweat lodges are commonly used in most Native American cultures as well as others. Many people who participate in sweat lodge ceremonies do so for various reasons and all have different outcomes. All tribes are unique and they all seek different benefits‚ individually and in a group. The main purpose of the sweat lodge is purification. When you are in the lodge you can say anything you want to get off of your chest. So usually what’s said in the lodge stays in the lodge. It is commonly used to get

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    weather and better living condition compared to the Philippines. Thankfully‚ we all moved to the United States of American because the musical inclination of our family’s history had tremendously evolved throughout the years. Each generation had a very particular interest in music and dancing that defined each age group. Evidently‚ the Native Filipinos‚ Spaniards‚ Europeans‚ and Americans had great influence in our

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