325 Results for american history

Is It Really Our HIStory?By definition, history is an account of what has happened, especially in the life of a people, country, etc., or all recorded past events. Using this definition, the American school system should recognize and teach all historical events that pertain to all ethnic groups in...
Culture can be expressed in many ways throughout the various ethnic groups; whether it\'s the way in which they dress, their religious beliefs, musical expression, food, writings, art...etc. Folklore and spirituality are vital forms of cultural expression because they have been a major part of surv...
In the beginning of American History there have always been differences and clashes of different groups of travelers and settlers. Three main groups that are going to be focused on are the Native Americans, which are also known as the Indians. They were said to be the first group of people in Nort...
Should History be paid for?Slavery and discrimination of human beings is a terrible, inhumane practice and is something that should never be done, and should never have been done. The United States of America was one of the biggest practitioners of this injustice in the past and this is something t...
The values and philosophies of the world, Native Americans, and I differ in many ways. Some areas in question are our personal differences, quietness, patience, mutualism or equality, and spirituality. Some, however, are very similar, in literature, for instance, the power of our words, as well as t...
Art may be present in any form of human activity. Plato regarded art as a form of play or pastime, which was inferior to such occupations as agriculture or cookery. Schiller referred to art as a play impulse. According to Ruskin, fine art is that which the hand, the head and the heart of ma...
In the latter half of the 19th century, the United States government began to take actions that would ultimately limit the presence and culture of Native Americans in the Great Plains region. These government actions were often corrupt in how they prompted the mistreatment of the Plains Indians whil...
In 1985, members of the Papago tribe announced plans to change their name to Tohono O\'odham Nation, which means \"the desert people.\" Tribal leaders no longer wished to be called Papago, a Spanish conjunction of the Indian word for \"bean eaters\" (Herschfelder 45). Such a decision came as no surp...
Throughout thousands of years – from long before the days of slavery, and to present day America – prejudice and stereotypes have played a giant role in our history. So what is it that makes this situation any different? This problem has been debated for many years, and the end is not in...
Certain aspects of Native American cultures may affect the process and outcome of Native Americans who seek out assistance from social workers. The values and norms inherent in many Native American cultures often present unique circumstances when individuals from those cultures deal with the domin...
In this research paper I will discuss two topics, the first topic examines life on the reservation and what struggles Native Americans have faced, second it will examine a brief history of Native American Schooling. Native American Life Native Americans culture is unique in many ways. Living on ...
Native AmericansMany times throughout history, specific events occur that explain why the existence of Native Americans are necessary for the Spanish and English colonists to survive. The Native Americans were like parents to the Spanish and English colonists. As a newborn baby is introduced to the ...
American is a word that we use almost everyday to express what we are. But exactly what does that word mean? Does it mean that we work a standard 40 hour week? Does it mean that we have exactly 2.5 children and half of our parents are divorced? The word American entails more than those trivial facts...
"When a star falls from the sky, it leaves a fiery trail. It does not die. Its shade goes back to its own place to shine again. The Indians sometimes find the small stars where they have fallen in he grass"(Kohnen). The Willamette Meteorite is an extremely rare scientific example. The met...
Trade was very significant throughout the Indian villages before the Europeans arrived because it was not only about trading goods. "Fundamental to the social and economic patterns of virtually all North American communities were exchanges that linked them directly or indirectly with other...
How does Schlesinger see America? I had really never thought about it: "What is America? Until this week I believed that America was a country (and a continent), but after reading Schlesinger's piece I realized that it is not only that. Schlesinger believes that America has succeeded ...
For the first time the Justice Department has released an extensive study focusing on American Indians. According to the article, about 60% of violent crimes that have occurred against American Indians have been committed by Whites. American Indians after all this time still fall victim to prejudi...
It can be said that neither the United States nor Britain wanted their dispute to end in war, but at this point war was unavoidable. Despite the fact that both the French and the British violated U.S. neutral rights, the British violations appeared to be more blatant because of the British navy&a...
COMMENT IN A JOURNAL OR MOVIE IN WHICH NATIVE AMERICANS ARE DEPICTED. The mystery of the Last Red Plant People is the movie I picked to write on how the Native Americans are depicted. Two increbible people wrote this movie, T.W Timreck and William Goetzmann.This movie entai...
Through out history, historians have had the ability to pass on the knowledge of the past because of written documents and other forms of evidence that acknowledge the existence of past civilizations and cultures. When there are no written documents, whether lost or never created, it can be more dif...
Imagine your country had been invaded by a very powerful group of people. Before anything drastic could be done these people had invaded your shores and had creeping inward upon your land. At first they acted with scorn and called us names and disrespect. After several groups of our people revolted ...
Due to the wide range of habitats in North America, different native religions evolved to match the needs and lifestyles of the individual tribe. Religious traditions of aboriginal peoples around the world tend to be heavily influenced by their methods of acquiring food, whether by hunting wild anim...
Bernard A. Weisberg refers in his article's title to the United States as a "Nation of Immigrants" rather than a unique, ancient grounded nation. As Joe R. Feagin states in his "Racial and Ethnic Relations" textbook: "Immigration in the United States is its f...
People have been living in the Americas for thousands of years. Only fairly recently, the past few hundred years, have foreigners begun to arrive and drastically disrupt the way of life of the aboriginal population. The situation has become so severe that a population that was one believed to be num...
Warfare: An American Dynasty What is an American? Furthermore, what makes an early American? Early Americans included, obviously, people of British decent that traveled here to colonize and start what we now know as America. But also, the term early American refers to French and Spanish colonist...