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serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

tradition might be translated into a written format. Vizenors story is, on first appearance at least, a fantasy. Never-t...

the directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...

This difference resulted in friction between the peoples of this new nation (and in particular its government) and the Native Amer...

Jimmy thinks back to his childhood. At any rate, it is a startling introduction to life as Jimmy and other Indians live it. It al...

the "influence of learners pragmatic knowledge of language and culture other than the target language on their comprehension, prod...

adjusted payment that Congress had authorized was delivered immediately (Mickey Z, 2008). Those that were owed more, however, wer...

indication of just how racial intolerance has guided history. Wrights (1987) "popular and perennial African-American characters" ...

became the first whites to actually see the valley (Ahwahnee, 2007). The Screeches encountered Pah Utes (Paiutes) camping in Hetch...

the serious topics addressed. Above all, this is a story about a search for family. As Okinaway goes through life, he does seem t...

Johnson (1999) specifically addresses the path of negotiations between the Kalapuya and the US government, recounting the Kalapuya...

people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...

society has assigned this group is not that by which they prefer to be identified. The Navajo prefer to refer to themselves as th...

saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...

to stand in the way of colonial development for some time. In short, they were quite united and yet separate and as such are consi...

For example, strong hostility existed between Native Americans and the Spanish because the Spanish prohibited the Indians from pra...

2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...

developed, even barbaric (Ferro, 1997). This was true within the then US, there had been the perception of the Native Americans as...

The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...

the federal money was also being used on boarding schools which were clearly not something that benefited the native people in any...

the same but instead of dealing with a European based government or government, Native Americans would have an almost omnipotent g...

the battle between the North and the South done, the future held some promise. But, that future could not exist if the Natives sti...

such as European law. They were at an added disadvantage in that up until the arrival of the Europeans to this continent, Native ...

now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...

"they opened up his [Native American] bowels. They tore the babes from their mothers breast and dashed their head against the roc...

they argue, man comes and chops, burns, uproots. Why should they care about the plight of man? This reflects the ongoing prob...

out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...

the tribes in Illinois had already signed treated which essentially given their land to the state. In light of this he pushed and ...

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

new land. The Native Nations and people exist in a very different social, religious, and political world than much of the ...