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    comprehend enough of their own culture identity? Every culture has their own identity. We all have the same human race. However, for me, even though USA is one of the biggest countries in the world, it’s hard to believe USA is a multicultural country, which has many people who came from overseas to the US to represent their own culture in there. There are Native American culture, Mexican culture, Chinese culture, Korean culture etc. and there is no way to count all the cultures which exist in the US because

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    Reflecting Upon Early Native American Virtues In the Lakota language, “wicozani” is a word that means wealth by living a happy and well balanced life with a physical and mental well-being in conformity with creation. In order to fulfill a life of prosperity and euphoria, it is crucial to be a well-behaved, humane person. In the Native American culture, being an impish, untrustworthy being goes against everything they believe in. One of the most meaningful values to the Native Americans is honesty. One

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    as the Native Americans. As the settlers came to the native land, they brought firm beliefs with them that ended up causing great conflicts with the native people. It was clear that the travelers and the native people could not live among one another since the native people has their own set of values and they were much different than the white man’s beliefs. Traditional Lakota spirituality is a form of religious belief that each thing, plant and animal has a spirit. The traditional Native American

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    Native American Culture Native Americans are also known as American Indians. They have been living on this continent 48,000 years before Christopher Columbus discovered America. By the time that he discovered it there were over 10 million Native Americans living on this continent. When the Europeans arrived the Native Americans were very interested and worshiped them to some degree. However, the Europeans began to act greedy and mean and only cared about material things. So Native Americans began

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    The consequences of colonization of 1942 has left many Americans to forget about the first people who inhabited the lands we now call the United States. Not only has it made us forget, but has dramatically affected Indian Country by the lost of culture, language, families, health, food sources, environment, and their overall traditional ways of living. As indigenous people are restoring what was taken away from them, Indian Country is also battling the disease of alcoholism, drug abuse, mental health

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    across the Atlantic ocean to North America for religious freedom, economic opportunity, and political freedom. Seeking the New World for a new life, many colonists had plenty of experiences with Native Americans already occupying the land. Several unexpected repercussions to Native Americans and their culture erupted as a result of colonization. As a result, many literary authors would comment on the effects of colonization via literature. There was the typical perception of indigenous people as barbarous

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    society and what it means to be Native American today persist to this day. They continue to be forced into the white man's way, yet try to hold onto their own. Despite all the oppression, the way Native Americans deal with and perceive American cultural, economic, and military power is presented by the author and his characters. The American culture preaches individuality, yet finds ways to systemize its people and stereotypes cultures who do not fit within their standards. In the story Amusements

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    In the Native American culture, there was a noticeable change in the status of women in the Cherokee nation. Women rarely labored in the fields because duties were “assigned them by nature as Mothers and Wives are well attended to… and cheerfully do they prepare our meals, & for the family they sew, they spin and weave and are in fact a valuable portion of our citizens.” These descriptions of a more civilized culture were hailed in the American press as indicative of the remarkable achievement of

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    Native Americans have an intimate relationship with the Earth that is very unusual to western culture. For centuries before the arrival of Europeans, Native Americans lived off the land in North America, without claiming ownership or creating massive environmental destruction. They have both a deep love and fear for the power of nature, and try to live as one with the environment. Because of this common value among tribes, Native Americans are often stereotyped as being the first environmentalists

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    Abstract The Native American tribes’ culture has been affected as a result of the change in a climate whereby most of the refined foods are not consumed by the modern and the manufactured foods. The Native Americans of the American Indian, Alaska and the Bannock tribes face unique challenges whereby their native foods are no more due to the destruction of their cultural practices, and people have turned into taking the modern food (Marry, 2016). The climate change has led to the loss of

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