The Challenges Of Native American Communities

The arrival of European explorers and colonizers had a profound impact on the indigenous peoples of North America east of the Mississippi. The dramatic social changes that Native Americans faced after European contact created a world that was entirely new to them. Colin Calloway's book, "The World Turned Upside Down," provides insight into the complex processes of cultural, social, economic, and political change that Native Americans experienced during this period. In this essay, I will examine the ways in which Native Americans participated and coped with these developments, the various roles they played in this process, and how they attempted to preserve their culture.

The state of the nation's economy is typically a hot topic that is frequently brought up in community meetings, politics, and gossip. However, one area of the economy that is not often heard about is the economies of the United States Native American tribes. Federally recognized Native American tribes are unique in our nation in that they are sovereign governments (National Congress of American Indians). Each tribe is unique in it's cultural, diversity, and economy due to the sovereign status of the Native American tribes.

The Post Reconstruction Era was the worst period ever for Native American history but it also became the upcoming rising of Native American leadership. Leaders like Red Cloud, Chief Seattle, Quanah Parker and Chief Joseph all had to settle with adapting to the American culture. For an example Red Cloud and his people the Sioux began series of fights because miners were crossing into their territory digging up their land looking for gold, they showed no respect to their environment, they even dug up to look for gold. Chief Seattle leader of the Suquamish, was upset with the way America cared for its land, he was so distraught by it he did a speech called “Nation of Nation’s”, where he talks about his land losing its beauty and how nothing there

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Political, social, and economical structures were everywhere (Olson & Beal p.194). Being forced from their lands and coerced onto reservations where the Native Americans were under the constant control of whites had to play a huge role in the loss of their cultural identity. They almost had to accept the lesser roles in order to survive. However, in doing so they lost their independence, as well as their sense of personal

The American Indian Movement is one of the most pivotal periods of time in American history, but for some reason it is not taught in most primary education institutions. “In recent decades, AIM has been known primarily for cultural advocacy and for its work on behalf of Indigenous rights on a global scale” (“American Indian Movement(AIM) 6). It is very important for us to realize that, although small, the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 sparked the inspiration for other movements across the world to push for new legislation aimed at providing equal civil rights for all people, especially Indigenous. The Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 was successful because it provided a legal framework for protecting the civil rights of Indigenous people, established an important precedent for recognizing the sovereignty and autonomy of Indigenous nations, and helped to address long standing injustices faced by Indigenous

Even things such as the transcontinental Railroad created challenges for them because it restricted their land even more. Through the violence of these events, many Native Americans were held captive and even died. Not only did they face having to fight for their land, and being taken away from it, but they also faced my injustices such as people wanting to destroy their culture and change them

The Native American Experience Before the Europeans arrived, Native Americans had 300 different cultures and 200 different spoken languages but all had storytelling in common. Natives having no written language caused the trust of group’s history, legends, and myths by memory from generations known as oral traditions. Native American oral literature is creation stories, legendary histories tracing the migration of people or the deed of great leaders, fairy tales, lyrics, chants, children’s songs, healing songs, and dream visions. European diseases caused some majorities of Native Americans groups to die, but the surviving carried on the oral literature of their diverse cultures.

Typically, the environment will diversify how a civilization obtains their basic needs. This paper will analyze how three different Native American tribes from varying divisions solved their economic problems. The Inuits of the Arctic, the Chinook of the Northwest, and the Pawnee of the Great Plains have many similarities and differences in their environment

Throughout history, Native Americans have been subjected to inexcusable treatment by society within the United States of America. When English settlers arrived in the United States of America in the early 1600’s, they were met with a society of individuals that were willing to maintain a mutual relationship (The New England Colonies and the Native Americans 2022). This, however, was not enough for settlers and they soon turned to violence, racism, and genocide in order to take land and resources from Native American people. Because of this, the very foundation of which the United States was built on consisted of racism and colonization (The Legacy of Injustices Against Native Americans nn.d.). This racism did not end as time went by, it is

Native Americans flourished in North America, but over time white settlers came and started invading their territory. Native Americans were constantly being thrown and pushed off their land. Sorrowfully this continued as the Americans looked for new opportunities and land in the West. When the whites came to the west, it changed the Native American’s lives forever. The Native Americans had to adapt to the whites, which was difficult for them.

Indian reservation life deals with poverty daily and hardships for everyone since the government does not have anything to do with these reservations. Reservations have been known as long as anyone can remember, you do not just run into a Indian at Walmart, they live in a completely different world due to the white settlers and government years ago. Our world has changed drastically over the years and continues to change daily. Poverty may be common in the reservations, but now a days you see it everywhere. White settlers and the government had a huge impact in the lives of Indian Tribes back in the 1860’s and that has left the long term effect of Indians living in reservations all across the United

Introduction In the nineteenth century there were over fifteen million Native Americans sprawled across over 800,000 square miles(over 2,000,000 square kilometers)of land . Yet in two thousand sixteen the largest tribe in America only had 300,500 people. That less than all the mortals in Malta which only takes up 0.006% of the total number of humans in the world! And then almost as if these numbers are taunting the Native Americans the largest area in America reserved for American Indians is just about twenty seven thousand square miles.

These schools have been described as an instrument to wage intellectual, psychological, and cultural warfare to turn Native Americans into “Americans”. There are many reports of young Native Americans losing all cultural belonging. According to an interview with NPR, Bill Wright was sent to one of these schools. He lost his hair, his language, and then his Navajo name. When he was able to return home, he was unable to understand or speak to his grandmother.

Did you ever think about native americans throughout time? How they lived in the past to today? Throughout time Native Americans have faced many difficult obstacles, some that we know about that happened in the past, to recent happenings. From new land being discovered to diseases spread, to conflicts, wars, and to poverty in the modern world. These are the conflicts the The Native Americans faced from the beginning of time, to the modern day.