Native American Portraits

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These two people, are dressed up as different things. The one of the left, Hami, is called 

the "dangerous thing". The one on the right isn't dressed as a specific thing, but he is dressed
as a ceremonial dancer during the Winter Dance Ceremony. I believe that
the Native Americans have had many different cultures that they cherished. In this picture
it shows how much they indulged in their culture and how many participated in their beliefs.
The Native Americans had their culture forcefully changed by the Americans. As the
Americans expanded and encountered the Native Americans, they did not like the ways of
the Natives, and made them learn and enact new cultures and new ways. I feel like the
natives were crushed when their cultures were disappearing, and also their lives being
taken away from them. This was all caused by the American's desire to expand

westward and take all the land.