Native American Culture Research Paper

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Introduction
The civility of indifference posed problems among cultural and social perspectives. People disregarded others who did not belong to their social categories, and they became egocentric and xenophobic. These perceptions negatively brought denial and rejection among other people who belonged to different ethnic origins. For example, the Native Americans or American-Indian families were different from the rest of the world, and they were different due to the passing of time. Their cultural views might have slightly changed, and they became different in which they were misconstrued because of their customs. In some parts of globe, Native Americans have specific cultures including the values instituted within the frameworks of marriage,
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However, it was then that the Eskimos discovered that they were by all account not the only people on earth. At this point, practically every American-Indian tribal gathering had reached, which became convenient to the European dwellers and merchants. The last contact between the two cultures and races such as American-Indians and Europeans created a strong relation that fared well through times. Conversely, there was a division of labor between men and women for Native Americans. Conventionally, women American Indians developed products, raised houses, and performed household chores, while men chased, fished, and made war. Since chasing and fishing were recreational in Europe, Europeans viewed those men as lethargic idlers. The difference between Native Americans or Europeans was the sense of equality embarked within the social framework, which made the Europeans feel bad about them. The Europeans forced the American Indians into a change within the cultural and tribal structures wherein Native Americans had no choice but struggled against injustice. Towards the end, the Europeans expanded and pushed the Native Americans on the edge of …show more content…
In other words, even the backwardness of the Native Americans, they easily adopted the changing culture of their times. Indeed, the families of American-Indians specifically the lesbian and gay couples adopted a new perspective as they helped these couples survived in the discriminating and abandoning American society (Freeman & Fox 2005). The Native American families have survived from the over-all scrutiny in the American environment, and they would survive more than anything else in the real process of acculturation and even in the Melting Pot. Their children can adopt into the process of integration or assimilation in the American society as long as one can begin to open more doors. The Native American families including their unique cultures were portrayed as one significant contributing factor in the developing sense of humanity, and they occupied to the land where once taken by the American society (Reich, Patterson, Campbell, Tandon, Mazieres, Ray, & Barrantes, 2012, p. 374). That is why the future generations of the Native Americans must be preserved and cultivated because they are part of the Melting Pot and because they also contribute to the welfare of the American