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: 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. We were taught that Southerners held racist and stereotypical views toward a group of people common to their geographical area, yet we refused to acknowledge our own stereotypical views toward the group of people common to our geographical area — Native Americans. And growing up, I heard many things said about the Native American ethnicity. Some things were good, most were bad, but all had one thing in common: They were sweeping generalizations