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Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as intact political communities. The terms used to refer to Native Americans are controversial; according to a 1995 US Census Bureau set of home interviews, most of the respondents with an expressed preference refer to themselves as American Indians or Indians.

In the last 500 years, Afro-Eurasian migration to the Americas has led to centuries of conflict and adjustment between Old and New World societies. Most of the written historical record about Native Americans was made by Europeans after their immigration to the Americas.[3] Many Native Americans lived as hunter-gatherer societies, although in many groups, women carried out sophisticated cultivation of a variety of staples: maize, beans and squash. Their cultures were quite different from those of the agrarian, proto-industrial immigrants from western Eurasia. The differences in culture between the established native Americans and immigrant Europeans, as well as shifting alliances among different nations of each culture, caused a great deal of political tension and ethnic violence. Estimates of the pre-Columbian population of what today constitutes the U.S. vary significantly, ranging from 1 million to 18 million.

After the colonies revolted against Great Britain and established the United States of America, President George Washington and Henry Knox conceived of the idea of "civilizing" Native Americans in preparation for United States citizenship.[6][7][8][9][10] Assimilation (whether voluntary as with the Choctaw,[11][12] or forced) became a consistent policy through American administrations. During the 19th century, the ideology of Manifest destiny became integral to the American nationalist movement. Expansion of European-American populations after the American Revolution resulted in increasing pressure on Native American lands, warfare between the groups, and rising tensions. In 1830, the U.S. Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, authorizing the government to relocate most Native Americans of the Deep South east of the Mississippi River from their homelands to accommodate European-American expansion from the United States. Government officials thought that by decreasing the conflict between the groups, they could also help the Indians survive. Remnant groups have descendants living throughout the South. They have organized and been recognized as tribes since the late 20th century by several states and, in some cases, by the federal government.

The first European Americans encountered western tribes as fur traders. As United States expansion reached into the American West, settler and miner migrants came into increasing conflict with the Great Plains tribes. These were complex nomadic cultures based on using horses and traveling seasonally to hunt bison. They carried out strong resistance to American incursions in the decades after the American Civil War, in a series of "Indian Wars", which were frequent up until the 1890s. The coming of the transcontinental railroad increased pressures on the western tribes. Over time, the U.S. forced a series of treaties and land cessions by the tribes, and established reservations for them in many western states. U.S. agents encouraged Native Americans to adopt European-style farming and similar pursuits, but the lands were often too poor to support such uses.

Contemporary Native Americans today have a unique relationship with the United States because they may be members of nations, tribes, or bands of Native Americans who have sovereignty or independence from the government of the United States. Their societies and cultures flourish within a larger population of descendants of immigrants (both voluntary and slave): African, Asian, Middle Eastern, and European peoples. Native Americans who were not already U.S. citizens were granted citizenship in 1924 by the Congress of the United States.


The way indians got to american they were in different theories out there,some believe Native Americans are descended from early asians who arrived during the last ice age, when the sea level was low enough that there was a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. The ancient Siberians, a race related to the Mongolians, Chinese, Koreans, etc. crossed this land bridge into Alaska. Over the centuries, they migrated south to completely cover the continents of North and South America.

What Is An American

What is an American? Well basically from what I know is an American is a person who was born in America. But in a way I know its more then just being American, I was reading this story and the was just saying during the mid 1700s many people left Europe for the opportunity and challenge of north American.

Americans were responding. a carload of clothing for Europe from the students of Missouri's Park College. 40 home-made wash dresses shipped off by the Ladies Relief Society of the Mormon Church in Indianapolis. a triple boost in the number of CARE packages sent abroad last year. The plight of Europe had touched the hearts of men, women & children in the U.S., a nation which had come from Europe.


Then some American escape crowded cities, to own their own land, and to earn a better living. But at the same time other American came in search of religious freedom, a life with less government interference, and the change to have greater voice in government. But then Two thousand years ago, when Western civilization was bounded by the laws and legions of the Roman Empire, the proudest words a man could utter were "I am a citizen of Rome. A century ago, when the world was girdled by the British Empire, the Englishman's voice sounded from the earth's far corners: "I am a British subject." Now, in the middle of the 20th Century, the most arresting tones of history said something else I am an American.


Their was a guy name Michel Guillaume jean de Crevecoeur he was a French immigrant who arrived in New York in 1759. For ten years, he traveled windily throughout the British colonies as a surveyor and a trader, finally setting on a farm he bought in New York. He began to write down his impression of life in America. And he discover American culture was more unified in a general sense a generation ago when television was still a relatively new phenomenon. The glow of the Second World War and its victory still suffused the nation. Americans had fought a just war and triumphed over some of the most evil men in history. Americans saw themselves, and were largely seen by the world, as the good guys.


In 1787 this guy under the name of J. Hector ST. John, he published a collection of 12 essay called letters from an American farmer. The letter that he wrote were very well received in Europe and were read by many people some considering to voyage to American and some just curious. And from his writing he realize An American is from the most prosperous land in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God-given right of each man and woman to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the
world in their time of need. When Afghanistan was overrun by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country. As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.

Academic Autobiography

As I was in elementary I always had a favorite subject. The favorite subject was math, I liked math because it seemed pretty easy, the teacher who taught the math made math fun so we can enjoy math and understand it. The lesson of math I always enjoyed was fractions and muitling numbers, In the future I can see myself in college and drafted to the NBA. As a student I am a smart young man who wants to get a good education to make it in life.

From my history in English. I learned how to pronouns words and build up my vocabulary, And the teacher would always come and take the student one by one to a little reading section to see where was our reading level and I was always the top 3rd reader out of the whole class which was a good thing because I wasn’t the last. And in junior high school I always had an B and I worked hard for that B so ill say I deserved an B.

For the class I’m in now my specific is to do real well so I can pass the class, And what I expect from the teacher? I expect for the teacher to teach so I can learn and it can be used in the future I live. Things that are important to me is my future and trying to finish high school and go to a college called USC and finish all my years there and get drafted to the NBA. Then I’m going to the pro lead.

Then after all that I’m just trying to help my family and my sure my life is great wit no worries about anything and having more to worry about cause more disruption and being your self and that’s who I am TYRONE JR.

Another reason why I’m the way I am today is because my parent, they raised me as a young respectful man and for me to always stay in school and get my education while I can. And that’s what I’m going to do because I don’t want to be one of them people who cant pay theirs bills or just don’t have money or live on the street. But all I know is I have confidences in myself to know I’m not going to be one of those people.
So far I’m doing good because my grades in school are up to A’s and B’s so now I’m just living my high school dream so I wouldn’t have no problem with then world trying to take me out or trying to get a job but I know I’m not going to have to try and I can just do it with no hesitation.

HOW I'VE GROWN AS A WRITER

How i've grown as a writer. Well ill say as writer i grown alot, now when i writer a paper its like everything im going to write is already visualized inside my big brain of mines. The moment i first enter the english class i knew there was going to be alot of work to be done as in writing and other accesory to be worked on.

The first week i enter the class the teacher she had us write a Academic Autobiography which is an essay about our self like who supports us and what we wanted to be in life and did an essay about what grade do we think we deserve in the class and I said I think i deserve an A or an B and now at this moment I have an B beacuse of all the hard work i put in to my eassay and other work we did.

My spelling and vocabulary has went uo and i been writing alot in this class and every since inside i been writing helps me think about the open and alot comes to thought and everything is flowing as i write and i think its a good feeling because depanding on what subject i am writing about everything comes out as i am experssing my self.

The teacher also had us write a stream of consciousness and that is bascilly a free write and when its a free write thats where i express my self more and get deep inside my feeling but basiclly what i wrote about is what school i came from and a lil some about who i am as a person and i wrote about how i want to become sussecssful in life and go to college and got to the NBA.

The benning of the third semester the teacher brought in a guy name fred. he was a producer and act out plays he came and held us write a play and we had to act them in front of the school

found poem

Mama, please let me help you wash the sheet,
for your passion is faded pink, not red.
As sweat drops into aluminum wash pan between tired feet,
your burdened mind weighs heavy as the bedspread.
Discolored from dirty soles and playful bliss,
it lies beneath white bubbled clouds of soap,
marked by children aware of something amiss,
while above the chaos, your mind stays afloat.
Fantasy wishes to replace present with the past,
intermingled with grumbles of discontent for your life;
Distant memories of youth and frivolities that last,
you wanted more than to be a housewife.
You try to console yourself--never mind--hush;
back and forth you scrub with the bristled brush

Stream of consciousness

I think my life is sometimes easy to go througt but at the same time it can be not understandable because some stuff can get to hard but i keep goin and never try to give up because im not the type of person that give up

WGA REFLECTION

Working with Fred and his workers was a good learning prosess. I received a lot of information on working with plays and how to put your thouhgts and ideas together to come up with an act and scene. We brainstormed a lot and thoughts came from the top of my head. Futhermore, I received a wonderful lesson when fred was teaching us about the acts and sometimes in Act 3 there's a lost moment when the person in the story didnt know what happened to them or to some one else and some how when the movie or Act come on we can already tell what the story is about.


Inadditon, Fred was explaning that if we decide to become writers or producers we would already know how the story telling is produced and how to write our own stories. Moreover, it is important that a story that will make sense to the people that are watching the movie and how we have to have meaning to our stories that we write.


Two weeks later Fred brougt professional actors to act out our screen play.