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A 3 page research paper that examines the differences between Native American and European American values. The writer looks specifically at the text of James Welsh's novel Fools Crow and a collection of original documented edited by Milner, et al. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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with its own established society and value system. Rather than see these people as entitled to their own culture, Europeans perceived them as "other," that is, quasi-humans who could--with diligent
effort--possibly be raised to the standards of "civilization." Examination of the differences between Native American and European-descended American values demonstrates that there was a considerably amount of cultural exchange, but
that the basic orientation of the two groups remained categorically different. Milner, Butler and Lewis, in a fascinating collection of original documents, point out that when Europeans came to
the American West and the Great Plains of Canada and the US, they found the region already occupied by hundreds of thousands of Native Americans, who had "already shaped the
land to fit their material needs and cultural desires, giving it meaning and making it home" (82). In a document entitled "The Testimony of Pedro Nranjo, a Pueblo Indian," dated
1681, one finds the values of the Europeans perfectly exemplified. This document states that the Native American was asked whether or not he knew the reason or motives behind a
recent rebellion of Indians--"forsaking the laws of God and obedience to his Majesty" (Milner, Butler and Lewis 49). As this indicates, the value system of the Europeans did not
include any consideration of an alternate opinion to their worldview. They fully expected the Native Americans to accept that it was their God-directed duty to acknowledge the divinely-appointed authority of
the Spanish sovereign. This particular Native American, who was being questioned, admitted that his people had been planning to rebel since the inception of the government of "Senor General
Hernando Ugarte y la Concha" (Milner, Butler and Lewis 49). While many Native American tribes did not consider land in a perspective of ownership, within the European sense of the
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