Native American Day 2024 is on Sunday, October 13, 2024: Modern Day Native Americans?

Sunday, October 13, 2024 is Native American Day 2024. Native American Day is a state holiday in California, established in 1968 to honor Native American cultures and contributions to the state and the United States.

Native American Day is a state holiday in California, established in 1968 to honor Native American cultures and contributions to the state and the United States.

Native American Day commemorates criminal activities dedicated versus indigenous Americans, and encourages folks to discover around and value the cultures of historic and modern-day indigenous Americans.

Native Americans were systematically and institutionally screwed over by the United States since first contact. This continues today. Generally, the reservations are some of the poorest places in the country (though some are actually quite wealthy because of casinos). The quality of life is terrible - poverty, alcoholism, teen pregnancy, suicide, etc is far more prevalent in reservations than in the rest of the country. The younger generations are less likely to stick with the traditions of the tribes. Tribal languages are becoming extinct at alarming rates. The loss of the diverse culture and groups that make up the American Indian people is a real tragedy. If anyone has been screwed over the most by white people, I would say it's the native Americans.

However, I've never met a native american who was hostile towards white Americans. They are forgiving people who aren't looking to place the blame, but do want recognition of their status as the first "Americans" and their systematic destruction by the US. They just want you to get the whole story, and so native americans are generally glad to see white people on their reservations, not only do they support local economies, but it does give a chance for intercultural communication between groups that live seperated lives.

Where now most native Americans live now a days.?

Most Native Americans live in Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and probably not in tribal areas, in California. There are large groups in the Dakotas, probably Minnesota has some Chippewa, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Colorado all probably have some tribal reservations are there are people not living on the reservation in cities and towns.

There are also large numbers in New York, North Carolina and probably some Cherokee in Georgia. Native Alaskans probably mostly live in Alaska, although some may have moved south. Polynesian Hawaiians probably live mostly in Hawaii or on the west coast if they live on the mainland. There are people of Native American or part Native ancestry in just about every state.

Characterize the relationships between native American, Euroupean, and African peoples?

Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as intact political communities. The terms used to refer to Native Americans have been controversial. According to a 1995 US Census Bureau set of home interviews, most of the respondents with an expressed preference refer to themselves as American Indians or Indians, and this term has been adopted by major newspapers and some academic groups.

Since the end of the 15th century, the migration of Europeans to the Americas, and their importation of Africans as slaves, has led to centuries of conflict and adjustment between Old and New World societies. Europeans created most of the early written historical record about Native Americans after the colonists' immigration to the Americas.[3] Many Native Americans lived as hunter-gatherer societies and told their histories by oral traditions. In many groups, women carried out sophisticated cultivation of numerous varieties of staple crops: maize, beans and squash. The indigenous cultures were quite different from those of the agrarian, proto-industrial, mostly Christian immigrants from western Eurasia. Many Native cultures were matrilineal; the people occupied lands for use of the entire community, for hunting or agriculture. Europeans had patriarchal cultures and had developed concepts of individual property rights in land that were extremely different.

The differences in culture between the established native Americans and immigrant Europeans, as well as shifting alliances among different nations of each culture through the centuries, caused extensive political tension, ethnic violence and social disruption. The American Indians suffered high fatalities from the contact with infectious Eurasian diseases, to which they had no acquired immunity. Epidemics after European contact caused the greatest loss of life for indigenous populations. Estimates of the pre-Columbian population of what today constitutes the U.S. vary significantly, ranging from 1 million to 18 million.[4][5]

After the colonies revolted against Great Britain and established the United States of America,

The first European Americans to encounter the western tribes were generally fur traders and trappers. There were also Jesuit missionaries active in the Northern Tier. As United States expansion reached into the American West, settler and miner migrants came into increasing conflict with the Great Plains tribes. These were complex nomadic cultures based on using horses and traveling seasonally to hunt bison. They carried out strong resistance to United States incursions in the decades after the American Civil War, in a series of "Indian Wars", which were frequent up until the 1890s. The coming of the transcontinental railroad increased pressures on the western tribes. Over time, the U.S. forced a series of treaties and land cessions by the tribes, and established reservations for them in many western states. U.S. agents encouraged Native Americans to adopt European-style farming and similar pursuits, but the reservation lands were often too poor and dry to support such uses.

Contemporary Native Americans have a unique relationship with the United States because they may be members of nations, tribes, or bands of Native Americans who have sovereignty or independence from the government of the United States. Since the late 1960s, American Indian activism has led to the building of cultural infrastructure and wider recognition of their unique identities and contributions throughout United States society: they have founded independent newspapers, community schools, tribal colleges, and tribal museums and language programs; academic institutions across the country have created Native American studies programs; national and state museums have been founded to recognize American Indians' historic and current contributions. American Indian authors have been increasingly published (with the vast majority writing in the colonial language, English); other American Indians work as historians and in a wide variety of occupations. Traditional and contemporary artists and craftsmen express their identities. Cultural activism has led to an expansion of efforts to teach and preserve indigenous languages for younger generations. Their societies and cultures flourish within a larger population of descendants of immigrants (both voluntary and involuntary): African, Asian, Middle Eastern, and European peoples. At one time, the US required Native Americans to give up tribal membership in order to be accepted as citizens. This policy changed and in 1924, Native Americans who were not already U.S. citizens were granted citizenship by Congress.