COULD YOU REPLY  OR WRITE A POSITIVE COMMENT FOR THIS PRAGRAPH FOR 75 WORDS      Native Americans view their culture as their identity. This perception motivates them to preserve their culture against all odds. To them, freedom means, they have a right to preserve their culture. While striving to preserve their identity and culture, Native Americans have appeared to be rebellious or ignorant of civilization. The desire to preserve one’s culture is dependent on how well an individual is taught about it. A closer analysis shows that Native Americans had and still have several ways of passing their culture from one generation to another. Methods such as teaching language, storytelling, and apprenticeship are among the active ways that Native Americans teach culture to their young ones. Another analysis shows that Native Americans start teaching their children cultural attributes at birth thus children pick up these traditions quickly. With that in mind, Native Americans invest a lot of time, effort, and energy into preserving their culture and passing it down to young ones. Since the younger generations have lived to believe in the goodness of their traditions, it becomes hard to unlearn this culture thus they resist change. Native Americans view freedom as their right to follow and celebrate their culture and to pass it on to youth. Unfortunately, white Americans view freedom as the empowerment to live a better life as per personal choices and societal expectations. This difference makes the Native Americans perceive that freedom is brought to diffuse or kill their culture and identity (McNally, 2022). Previous efforts by the state to ensure Native Americans get educated within their villages and in their language have however been ineffective due to these misunderstandings. The freedom to express culture via language, painting, and dressing is important to Native Americans because it allows them to remain connected to their ancestry. Disrupting this would cause further conflicts between Native and White Americans. The solution to this conflict would seem to be, increasing inclusivity of all Americans’ values, traditions, and culture in daily life.

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Native Americans view their culture as their identity. This perception motivates them to preserve their culture against all odds. To them, freedom means, they have a right to preserve their culture. While striving to preserve their identity and culture, Native Americans have appeared to be rebellious or ignorant of civilization. The desire to preserve one’s culture is dependent on how well an individual is taught about it. A closer analysis shows that Native Americans had and still have several ways of passing their culture from one generation to another. Methods such as teaching language, storytelling, and apprenticeship are among the active ways that Native Americans teach culture to their young ones. Another analysis shows that Native Americans start teaching their children cultural attributes at birth thus children pick up these traditions quickly. With that in mind, Native Americans invest a lot of time, effort, and energy into preserving their culture and passing it down to young ones. Since the younger generations have lived to believe in the goodness of their traditions, it becomes hard to unlearn this culture thus they resist change.

Native Americans view freedom as their right to follow and celebrate their culture and to pass it on to youth. Unfortunately, white Americans view freedom as the empowerment to live a better life as per personal choices and societal expectations. This difference makes the Native Americans perceive that freedom is brought to diffuse or kill their culture and identity (McNally, 2022). Previous efforts by the state to ensure Native Americans get educated within their villages and in their language have however been ineffective due to these misunderstandings. The freedom to express culture via language, painting, and dressing is important to Native Americans because it allows them to remain connected to their ancestry. Disrupting this would cause further conflicts between Native and White Americans. The solution to this conflict would seem to be, increasing inclusivity of all Americans’ values, traditions, and culture in daily life.

 

 

 

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