Native Americans: Now and Then

Native Americans: Now And Then

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June 3, 2010

Angie Andriot

Native Americans: Now And Then

Society as a whole would argue that I am African American, but my ancestors would argue a difference of opinion. My mothers, mother was full blooded Indian, but it was two parts to make it a whole. She was Sioux and Cherokee. My mother’s father was Blackfoot and African American. It is because of these facts, that most native Americans would say that my mother is or was Native American. However, My father is African American and Blackfoot. Again I get a dose of native American blood, which makes me to the native American, more native American the African American. It is also because of these fact that White America would say he is African America, which in turn makes me African American. So it is for this reason I choose to do my assignment on Native Americans. Unlike most, I would like to know more about me.

I cannot write on all three natives, otherwise I would be here all day, so I chose Native American as a whole.

The first Native American were colonized rather then migrating to the United States. A group of Native Americans encountered by Christopher Columbus, in the 15th to 19th century were inslaved. It was said that of the 250,000 from Arawaks of Haiti, Only 500 survived by the year 1550, and the group was extinct before 1650. In the 15th to 19th centuries, their populations were ravaged, by the privations of displacement, by disease, and in many cases by warfare with European groups and enslavement by them.. They were forced to be slaves. Many Native Americans faced prejudice on a daily basis, soley on the dark color of their skin. They were called savages, and in many case, were deemed generically and rather confusedly as "A band of beings, who resembled demons rather than men" (37).

Fortunatly they did not suffer from too much segregation, which was probably a good thing, because of the racism they endored, there was no room left for...