How do you view Native American people?  In other words... we will see who is ignorant to this culture?
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YES!! I go to Dilkon often.
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I'm white and I'm offended by some of the caricatures and cartoons that are supposed to represent Native Americans.  I don't think sporting events are an appropriate place to mock someone else's sacred rituals (not that ANYWHERE is a good place for that.)\n\nBut I don't think Native American mascots should be flat out banned unless - perhaps - you've shown over long use that you can't be mature and respectful about it.  \n\nMy university had a Native American nickname (no mascot, though) and the school's relationship with the tribe it took its name from opened up a lot of doors to cross-cultural sharing.  It was really neat how that relationship worked.
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Why won't you write to me about this so we can have an intelliegent discussion about this?  Or even a debate about this?\nYou've read one writer's opinion in a Readers' Digest magazine, now you think you're an expert in the behaviors, lifestyles, and traditions within ALL the American Indian tribes.\nI've posted responses in your 3 previous questions/rants about my ancestors, and still you haven't responded.\nI've written to you through Yahoo mail inviting you to discuss your views in a rational manner, but you won't respond.\nI even have posted a question titled  "Zeepogee, why won't you contact me about your words about American Indians".\n\nI'll go to the library tomorrow to try and find this book you want everyone to read. If I can find it, I'll read it and get back to you. If I can't find it, I'd like a link from you where I can check out your source of opinion.\n\nYour "questions" are just rants. You ignore my open invitation for a friendly discussion, now you post this rant on here.\n\nYou can say I'm calling you out to talk about your views in front of all the readers on here.
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I am Native American (Indian).\n\n1. Identified by: Culture; music, events and beliefs.\n\n2. Offended by: Hollywood, because they continue to make crappy historical movies instead of contemporary ones about my people- yes we still exist.\n\n3. Feel that is true: Alcoholism and drug use is rampant on the reservations. There is also a high homocide and suicide rate due to bad media images. We're not the bad guys, how would you feel if someone forced you from your homes?
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That was very well written.  You sound like you are wise beyond your years and I appreciate your candidness here.  Thank you!  We are all Native Americans if we were born here, I agree with you!
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Native American.\n\nGeographic Overview \n\nWhen complete these Histories will encompass approximately 240 tribal histories (contact to 1900). They will be limited to the lower 48 states of the U.S. but also include those First Nations from Canada and Mexico that had important roles (Huron, Micmac, Assiniboine, etc.).\n\nhttp://www.dickshovel.com/up.html\n\nNATIVE AMERICAN SITES ON THE INTERNET\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Native_American.htm\n\nhttp://www.multcolib.org/homework/natamhc.html#itribes\n\nhttp://americanindian.net/links7.html\n\nhttp://www.promotega.org/fld30036/index.html\n\nhttp://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Native.html\n\nhttp://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab05\n\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/1naind.html\n\nhttp://www.kstrom.net/isk/mainmenu.html#buttons\n\nhttp://members.tripod.com/~RFester/index.html\n\nNative American Best General Resource Sites\n\nhttp://lone-eagles.com/na-general.htm\n\n____________________________________________________________\n\nhttp://cherokeehistory.com/\n\nhttp://cherokeehistory.com/histlink.html\n\nhttp://travelsd.com/onlyinsd/sioux/tribes/index.asp\n\nhttp://www.texasindians.com/cadd\n\nImages of Native Americans\n\nhttp://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=north+american+indians+&btnG=Search\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Negative, always negative!\n\nLook at what happened to the Native Americans in N. & S. America and what's even more sad, look at what they did to the Filipinos, some of them are too brainwashed and stupid to not know they are Asians making them think they are Pacific Islanders or Hispanics (Hispanics are of mixed Native American decendants) when it is clear they are related to the Malays and Indonesians!
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Non-believer here:\n\nIt makes me mad, because their sadness is indicative of a culturally superior attitude.  They're superior therefore anyone else who doesn't beieve ilke them needs to be "saved" and shown the Ight, else they are going to burn for all eternity.\n\nThey don't seem to realize that others might think that THEY are going to burn and need to be saved; the notion that they might be wrong doesn't seem to occur to them.\n\nThey obliterated so many beautiful cultures "spreading their word" and we lost so much diversity.  If they wouldn't convert, kill them.  Burn them.  And burning is one of the most horrific ways to go, physiologically speaking.  We lost the Aztecs and their civilization, we lost so much of the native American cultures, and the Pacific Islanders, and Africans.  Hel, in the "land of Freedom", native Americans weren't allowed to practice their religion unti the 1930's!\n\nAnd why did the Puritains come here?\n\nAnd they continue to destroy--they won't allow for homosexuals to marry, they want to outlaw a woman's right to her body (I had an abortion and I am not at all sorry about it!), etc\n\nPlus, the whole Christian mythology is just ludicrus; it's as valid as the Greeks and the Persians and the Osage cosmologies, except less entertaining and a whole lot more insulting to my intelligence.  I mean, God loves you, but you gotta accept that because you like women as you do men, you're going to burn.  If you don't accept Jesus as your savior, you're gunna burn.  If you take God's name in vain, you're gunna burn.\n\nYeah, God loves me.\n\n(BTW I do believe in God, but not like most people here do)
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What Indian ..the kind from India.  They would  face any the ame problems that any other immigrants. Language, culture, assimilation.\n\nIf you are speaking of the American Indian.  Theyare aboriginal, everyone else is the immigrant.
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woohoo finally someone has the same thoughts on this as i do.... hello people every history book will tell you that the native Americans where here first and that the Europeans ran them out of all their homes... yes, Mexicans came and did the same to the Indians when they took over Arizona, new Mexico and California but seriously how much better is white people than brown people if they both stole this land from the true natives??\n\nedited-what I'm saying is yes the Indians where here first but i do not agree with new immigrants or Americans taking advantage of welfare.. i have three children and can't get any help to send them to preschool because my husband  makes a HAIR more than the limit. now my oldest son is behind in kindergarten. \nI'm not trying to contradict myself i just don't like to hear white people say they where here first. and i don't like the fact that because people don't work they get hand outs, and the middle class can't get any help at all...\n\nedited- i don't get what is this discussion about dirty jobs? i love the show but i don't understand what you are all talking about? email me..thanks in advance..
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Native Americans did just fine in the world they lived in.  The white man moved in and upset their culture.  The white man spread disease and killed them outright.  The natives were lied to just to swindle them out of the land that was theirs to begin with.
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Powwow on the Reservation\nA Conversation with Scott Momaday\nby Claes Nordenskiöld \n"You will forgive me if I tell you that my people were Americans for thousands of years before your people were. The question is not how you can Americanize us but how we can Americanize you. We have been working at that for a long time. Sometimes we are discouraged at the results. But we will keep trying. And the first thing we want to teach you is that, in the American way of life, each man has respect for his brother’s vision." \n\n\nAnother said: “The question is not how you can Americanize us but how we can Americanize you.”(45) \n45. Quoted in Edgar S. Cahn, ed., Our Brother’s Keeper: The Indian in White America (New York and Cleveland: World, 1969), pp. 184, 175.
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At first, the Native Americans were probably curious.  While some tribes might have been prone to instigating trouble - many other tribes might have been open to the idea of a new group of individuals living in harmony beside them.\n\nWhat they found was group of people with very little respect for the land and its native people.  The English settlers (I'm refering to the Pilgrims up here in MA) weren't nice people and they weren't interested in cultivating meaninful relationships with natives unless it could provide them with useful knowledge to farm or hunt.  Once the Native Americans learned of the true nature of the colonizing English I'm sure they became weary of their presence.  Wars broke out - remember?  \n\nWere the English right to enter a territory that was already being lived in by others and trying to ungratefully utilize resources?  Would you want someone barging into your backyard and say "Hi I'm going to live here now - even though you've work hard your entire life for this little plot of land in the universe...oh and I'm gonna need some food, want to go grocery shopping for me?" \n\nI think you'd get rather ticked off.\n\n**\nKit4info:  You would like ME to learn MY American history?  If you are so ignorant to the treatment of the Native Americans by English settlers then you should not be responding to this question.  Research King Phillip’s War (1675-1676).  The cause of this war was due to what I said previously: mistreatment of the Natives.   Specifically: disrespect of Natives and continued expansion of the settlers.  The war involved the Wampanoag, Iroquois and Mohicans (western territories), Narragansett, Podunk,  and Nipmuck to name a few.  When war broke out most Natives sided with Phillip, a few who had converted to Christianity fought with the English, others were neutral.  Read this excerpt: \n\n “King Philip’s War was one of the bloodiest and most costly in the history of America. One in ten soldiers on both sides was injured or killed. It took many years for Plymouth and the other colonies to recover from damage to property\nThe outcome of King Philip’s War was devastating to the traditional way of life for Native People in New England. Hundreds of Natives who fought with Philip were sold into slavery abroad. Others, especially women and children, were forced to become servants locally. As the traditional base of existence changed due to the Colonists’ victory, the Wampanoag and other local Native communities had to adapt certain aspects of their culture in order to survive.”  \n\nDid I say that I think we should all leave because this land we live upon was stolen?  No – so what are you talking about “dinosaurs” for?  I am not “parroting” anything I am stating historical facts, my dear:  The Puritan settlers and their leaders were not nice people – not the innocents seeking religious freedom that you seem to think.  The majority of Native American tribes up here were NOT happy with what was happening around and did not like these intruders, although they tried to live beside them for several years, they quickly grew weary of their presence.  That was the question I read and that was what I answered.  No need to speak so condescendingly in order to gain a sense of authority because your argument is unfounded, illogical and worthless.  To deny any of these facts would be absurd; have you EVER taken an early American history class?  Someone was denied a school fieldtrip to Plimoth Plantation as a child and it shows.
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yeah i am a native american(only 1/16) how many of us do you see around huh? you know how many times i have been called an in-gen... once man once i'm telling you those people are out to get us ... again
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Well, it's not a bad idea, but do you really only want to elicit responses from people who think and believe exactly as you do?  I know the ignorant answers are annoying, but I actually enjoy reading different points of view from other cultures.  I like to learn from them.  Even when they are being vehement and fanatical I find that I can learn something about their culture and beliefs.  And what category would you put someone like me, who identifies with no specific religion.  I just follow my own spiritual path, made up of beliefs from several religions, new age spirituality and my own gut.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
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I presume you mean Native Americans.  As someone with both Native American and European blood in them, I can answer with a little less bias.  Humans have been spreading around the globe since we left Africa About 74,000 years ago.  We took the land from the Neanderthals.  If they still existed today, they'd be complaining as much as the Native Americans do.  And, to some extent, they have the right to.  The Europeans thought they were the civilized ones, and instead of learning what the Indians had to teach about living with the land, they just took it away.  The Europeans went about things in the wrong way.  Like bullies taking over the school playground.  I think the Indians took it far better then I would have. I have more European blood than Indian, but I have to side with the Indians on this one.  Some Indians take things to far, but the vast majority do not.  As to Kenwick man ... irregardless of how old he is, he was here before the Europeans, therefore, must be Indian.  I think, however, they are foolish to obstruct scientific investigation.  Don't they want to know about their ancestors and where they came from.  I hope this helps ... the question is rather vague.