Walking into the Fading Past: A Critique on the life of the Native Americans

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Dr. R Janatha Kumari, Dr S Sushma Jenifer

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Tribal culture and history has become a faded knowledge in the emerging living conditions and modern technological encounters. Native American Literature serves as an amalgamation of history in the midst of imagination which concentrates on the life and achievements of the Native Indian leaders. They lived through the period of American Colonisation, American Revolution and later on through the period of conflict and turbulence between the Natives and the Settlers. The life of Natives was disturbed by the foreign explorers. They began to occupy their land, later they saw their land becoming the sole possession of the invaders. Natives saw new rules and regulations that were created to suppress and overpower them. Today there are 573 federally recognized tribes in United States of America. They have their tradition to keep and culture to be followed. They are not forced to live in their reservations, they have their freedom to choose their living place. 78% of Native Americans live outside the reservations of California, Arizona and Oklahoma.

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