Native American Meanings....?
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As one member wrote, all tribes have different meanings but maybe I can give you a few pointers. I am Navajo, my husband is Chirachua Apache. The medicine wheel is red, yellow, white, and black. White is North or the path of wisdom, red is south and is the spirit, the earth. Yellow is east and represents the sun. Black is south and represents night or a look within yourself. Eagle feathers are used to send your prayers to the Creator. I don't know anything about cuts in the feathers.
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Actually it's about the mass murder of native Americans by early settlers. \n\nTurkey anyone?
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i don't know what that is. I just looked at a bunch of native american symbols online, and it doesn't seem to to be in the same artistic vein. I wish I could help you.
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It is a proven fact that Indigenous peoples were set up for failure. A little history for all of you who are so close minded that you can't even come up with a tangible answer...\n \n In 1786, the United States established its first "Native American" reservation and approached each tribe as an independent nation. This policy remained intact for more than one hundred years. But as President James Monroe noted in his second inaugural address in 1821, treating Native Americans this way “flattered their pride, retarded their improvement, and in many instances paved the way to their destruction.” \n\nIn addition, Monroe observed that America’s westward growth “has constantly driven them back, with almost the total sacrifice of the lands which they have been compelled to abandon. They have claims on the magnanimity and . . . on the justice of this nation which we must all feel.” Despite Monroe’s concern for the plight of Native Americans, his administration successfully removed them from states north of the Ohio River. \n \nYeah, so Monroe, like so many others may have sympathized with our mistreatment, but still did nothing to reverse the continuing cycle of Indigenous peoples suppression!!!
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so how did you come to this conclusion. are you talking about native americans?
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Indian Giver\nThere are two popular etymologies for this term for a person who gives a gift only to later demand its return. The first is that it is based on an unfair stereotype of Native Americans, that they don't keep their word. In the other popular explanation, the term doesn't cast aspersions on Native Americans, instead it echoes the broken promises the whites made to the Indians. Neither is accurate, although the first is closer to the truth.\n\nInstead the term comes from different commercial practices. To the Native Americans, who had no concept of money or currency, gifts were a form of trade goods, of exchange. One didn't give a gift without expecting one of equivalent value in return. If one could not offer an equivalent return gift, the original gift would be refused or returned. To the Europeans, who with their monetary-based trade practices, this seemed low and insulting, gifts were not for trade but were to be freely given.\n\nThe noun Indian gift dates to 1765. Indian giver follows about a century later in 1865. Originally, these reflected simply the expectation of a return gift. By the 1890s, the sense had shifted to mean one who demands a gift back.
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Canada is an Native American word meaning community.
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You have a hole in your bucket.  Native American philosophy worships and respects the earth, beauty, life, and death, but you wouldn't accept it because it isn't EXACTLY what you believe.  You have presented no meaningful criteria.  I like all that stuff too, and it is more beautiful and amazing without being a product of a personality.
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indians  thus known as NATIVE AMERICANS!
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I think Native Americans are sooo nice!  I knew several full-blooded NA's from the Menominee tribe.  Very friendly folks. I think everyone believes NA's are still one with nature, even today.  I watched a lot of the Native American Grammy's (Nammy's?), and thought it was cool how the music ranged from folk music, pop, a reggaeton sound, and even almost hip-hop. I also liked how their dress, onstage, was from native attire to waaay more up-to-date than what I wear. I thought it proved that NA's don't just wear leather & feathers and play drums.  I think everyone feels guilty about the land that was taken away from people who initially welcomed the new visitors.  I have Shawnee blood in me from the Algonquian tribe.
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A sovereign Native American tribe.
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Navaho, Seneca, Onieda, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Teton Sioux, Huron, Seminole, Creek...
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When the Native Americans were here in the land we now call United States they did not "own" the land, they shared it. But the "white man" came to steal their land with lies and promises and all hell broke loose. \n\nGREED is the word!
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I am not Native American but would like to share with you the texts that helped me to better understand the Native American culture and my understanding of the atrocities that occurred. Many Native Americans were killed, raped, starved, displaced and betrayed by the settlers to America. The quote from Chief Red Cloud above is probably the simplest and most accurate way to portray the betrayal of his people. \n\nMany tribes were reduced to a minisclule fraction of thier numbers in mass masacres (in which only the white men had rifles) - the most famous of these was the massacre at Wounded Knee. Eventually the tribes in thier dwindling numbers were resigned to reservations and virtually starved because of the fact that they now had only limited hunting lands and the settlers had slaughtered (almost to extinction) the buffalo - which was the Native Americans staple food source. A very similar thing happened here in Australia to our Aboriginal tribes.\n\nThere is so much to know on this topic and I would advise looking into these:\n\n"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown (book)\n\n"Savagery and the American Indian" by Ken Kirby (film documentary)\n\nand checking out this web site for any more documentaries on your Native People.\n\nhttp://shenandoahfilms.com\n\nYou will not only learn of the atrocious behaviour of an ignorant government through this but will hopefully discover a culture which is rich in warmth, respect and mysticism.
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Native Americans tribe names are as numerous as sand on the beach. I think you're asking probably, who named them "Indians." I imagine that would be Columbus who thought he ended up in India and assumed those he met were Indians. Various tribe names as we know them today are probably whatever we could repeat as white settlers. Im sure if you ask an Indian their tribe name may be different than what we commonly know them as. Like the Anasazi, if I remember right, the call themselves someting different, Anasazi is a name the whites gave them because thats what they heard their enemies call them.
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"Indian giver" means someone who gives you something with the intention of taking it back or wanting it back.\n\nDuring colonial times, Indians would lend items to settlers.  The settlers thought that they were receiving gifts and were surprised when the Indians wanted them back.\n\nIt's offensive to the Native American community though.
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eastern indian\nor\namerican indian\nim half american,but related to the sioux tribe eastern tribe monican.\nnot looking though really