According to the materiel Of The People, he Hurons differed greatly from the Europeans in several ways. First, in marriage and sexual relations. The Hurons entered into sexual relations shortly after puberty and these relations may or may not lead to marriage. In Europe sexual relations were supposed to occur until after marriage. During this time period Europeans believed that marriage was sacred and should not be annulled unless absolutely necessary, this greatly different from the common dissolving of marriage among the Hurons.
One night at exactly ten o'clock Ella Chesterman, a fifteen year old, heard a loud and strange noise. She looked around as scared as a mouse trying to see where the sound originated from. She heard the noise again and arose her parents and her brother, Brayden. After her family arose the sound occurred again and her family rushed outside to find out where it was coming from. There appeared to be nothing strange outside until…
The numbered treaties and Indian act have destroyed and negatively impacted the First Nation, Inuit, and Metis peoples culture and traditions. First, not only did the treaties sign off their rights, but they also started the terrible colonialism of the British and French. These numbers started out as a trick just so the British can have control over the rights of the indigenous. This also got the indigenous peoples living on reserves and obeying not a chief, but an Indian agent. Secondly, the Indian agents were a big part of the Indian act as the Indian agents dictated and controlled the indigenous peoples way of life and were also cruel.
For instance, the creator and the process in which he created was the most glaring dissimilarity. The Bible’s God and Wee-sa-kay-jac created man from the clay and dirt, but the status of the two is completely different. The Cree creator was not the high God, like Judiasm’s. He was the son of the high god Mother Earth, who actually created everything by birthing it.
The Aztecs believed that the gods of their religion took five attempts to create the Earth. There were hundreds of gods, worshiped all across Mesoamerica with some being major parts of everyday life and others getting hardly a mention. The reason it took so many attempts to create the world was because of the constant infighting among the gods. The first creator, Tezcatlipoca, turned into a jaguar and tore the world apart and in similar fashion the new world was destroyed by wind and the next two by floods. In each version of the Earth, the creator of that Earth became the sun that shone across the sky, but in the most recent world – the one in which the Aztecs lived – none of the gods volunteered so it was decided that one must sacrifice themselves.
These groups were the Inuit, Mayans and Puritans, all of whom had very different beliefs about what their creator(s) was/were and their creation by them/him. However, as each of the religions were different so were the cultures and their relationship with their creator(s). In the Inuit creation story the Creator was a bird man or more accurately a man who could change into a bird and vice versa. Because the story stated information like, “Raven made the world and the waters with beats of his wings” and “Raven had been soaring above his earth,” it can be assumed that the Inuit Creator spent most
Civilizations throughout time have sought to explain how humans and the earth came into existence. Although all creation stories are similar, there are glaring differences as is the case between the Greek and Iroquois creation stories. The differences begin with the core spiritual belief system. The Greeks believed in multiple Gods and Goddesses contrasting with the Iroquois who believe in the Sky Woman and that everything from plants to animals has a spirit. The beginnings of the stories are somewhat similar in that there was basically nothing before the main entity or creator came into being.
As the song goes, "In 1492,in fourteen ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Before Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World, the Native Americans knew it as their home. Soon after Columbus reported back to let all of Europe know that he successfully found land, European settlers quickly followed. Every tribe was one of it 's kind, yet their cultures shared the importance of their religious practices, beliefs, and values . The Native Americans were generally very peaceful people, that is, until the Europeans invaded their land and forced them to fight back.
Each culture establishes their own story of creation, as well as their own portrayal of who is “the supreme creator”.
The Egyptians had gods for every aspect of their lives and afterlives. Although the Mayans had many gods, they also practiced Animism. Both cultures had places for rituals and ceremonies. The gods they believed in were different from each other and some were worshiped more than others. With very few differences, the religious aspects of both cultures influenced both cultures equally.
There are some similarities and differences between the reader and the text book. The text explains how white Americans want the Native American’s to completely change their way of life. And if they change how they live, Americans where going to grant them citizenship. For instant, the officials wanted the Indians to fully give up their land, religion practices, nomadic way of life for Christian religion practices, private ownership and other things. The white Americans weren’t willing to compromise with the Native Americans in any way.
It is surprising how many characteristics these completely unrelated gods had in common and how many they didn’t. Comparing them, their territory,
Upon the first colonial establishments, the Europeans viewed Native Americans as uncultured, unintelligent, and uncivilized. The first colonizers found themselves ultimately superior to the perceived rudimentary cultural and societal customs that were observed. Native Americans viewed Europeans as a strictly one sided cultural mass enforcement foreign establishment, stopping at nothing to enforce their perceived superiority in all forms of cultural and societal aspects. Differences in land use, gender roles, and societal history added to the wedging and hostility between the Native Americans and European people. Upon the European's first impression of Native American culture, the first notable aspect of their "species" and society was their promising outlook as potential slave laborers.
The three early civilizations; the Mesopotamians, the Hebrews, and the Greeks, believed in different deities. All of their gods were all similar yet very different from one another. The Mesopotamian and Greek civilizations were polytheistic, believing in many gods. The Hebrew civilizations were monotheistic, believing in only one god. Mesopotamians relationship with their gods, was all about serving their gods.
Many different cultures have myths and stories about how they think the world was created. These myths commonly reflect different values that these cultures have. Although these myths are different stories from different cultures, they often have traits in common. The creation myths from the Iroquois and the African Bushmen are similar because they both are about creation and they share many elements, but there are also differences in the stories because they are different myths from different cultures.
