Title: Ten Things You Don’t Know About American Indians
Headings: 10 Things You Don’t Know About Native Americans
10 Things You Don’t Know About Native Americans
Ten Things You Don’t Know About American Indians
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10 Things You Don’t Know About American Indians Apr. 9, 2014 By Braudie Blais-Billie
1. We exist today and live contemporary lives.
2. There are multiple ways to address Native America.
3. We don’t all look the same.
4. There are more than 560 federally recognized tribes in the U.S.
5. And each tribe has its own identity as a nation, independent from one another.
I can’t stress it enough: Natives aren’t a unanimous culture across North America. We don’t all hunt buffalo or wear buckskin. Every tribe has its unique languages, traditions, histories, politics, economies, religions, and overall ways of life.
6. Some Natives live on reservations, some don’t.
7. There are American Indians in the U.S. that don’t speak English.
8. Land is not just property to American Indians.
9. A genocide was enacted upon Native America.
10. Native America is changing the world.

Content: She’s even run as Vice President alongside candidate Ralph Nader on the Green Party ticket. Adrienne Keene’s honest blog Native Appropriations has amassed over 50k followers on Facebook, and grabbed the attention of companies such as Paul Frank for their problematic behavior. There are also musicians like A Tribe Called Red, hailing from the Cayuga Six Nations and Nissiping Ojibwe Nation, representing Native expression. Though there are still huge issues to overcome before Indian Country can rest, Indigenous Resistance is alive and well. With the advantage of the Internet and greater opportunities for education, each generation is getting louder and louder. We are beginning to portray ourselves in the media on our own terms. In the famous words of Native movie Smoke Signals, “ It’s a good day to be indigenous. ” Journal #3094 from sdc 4.18.14
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Common Native American Stereotypes Debunked June 21, 2013 | by Shannon Ridgway
Growing up in the Midwest, I can remember sitting in school, learning about the Civil War and the (supposed) reasons behind it: White Southerners kept Black people as slaves, treated them as second-class citizens (or less than), worked them to the bone, and refused to give up this free labor until the inevitable result was war. We were taught how wrong this was — the enslavement of our fellow citizens, the rendering of other people as less than human, simply because their skin was a different shade than ours.