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The Material Culture of Slaves in Early America

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

Benedicte Marie Wrensted’s Photographs of Native Americans

inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...

“Major Problems in California History”

effort in categorizing the tribes that populated the area and speculating as to their origin. He observed their subsistence patte...

Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

What People in the Colonial Era Knew

Knowledge and learning were extremely important in America during colonial times. With examples such as Benjamin Franklin and Thom...

Survival of Native Americans and the Importance of Memory

In five pages this paper examines the importance of memory to the Native American cultural experience in a consideration of memory...

Europeans, Native Americans, and Greed

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

John Demos' The Unredeemed Captive and Intercultural Relationships

In ten pages this paper examines intercultural relationships as featured in the text's portrayal of early 18th century Native Amer...

Predictions of Alexis de Tocqueville and the Survival of Native Americans

which Tocqueville noted between white and red, between savage and civilized, was an ever-present factor, in fact in the interactio...

1865 to 1896 Native American Policy of the United States

The non-Native culture epitomized in the fledgling U.S. was almost one-hundred percent different from Native American culture. Th...

Strategies to Survive and 'The Open Boat' by Stephen Crane

this situation held certain peril for these men. Second, the omniscient view has allowed Crane to describe, in a birds eye...

Nineteenth Century Native Americans

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

Native Americans and Government Policies and Treaties Between 1830 and 1890

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

A Comparison of the Autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin, Mary Rowlandson, & Olaudah Equinao

This paper compares and contrasts the lives of three influential early Americans. The themes of freedom, faith, and inspiration in...

Native Americans Viewed Differently in Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan and The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In seven pages this paper examines the role the historical time periods of the authors played in these very different glimpses of ...

Witness and Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi

In six pages this essay examines what literary tools the author employed in writing Survival in Auschwitz....

Native American Military Alliances - 1680-1812

This 4 page paper discusses the most important Native American military alliances formed during the period 1680-1812. The writer p...

U.S. - Native American Relations from 1850-1890

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

The Power of Persuasion: No Magic Bullet for the Continuing Problems in Darfur

that this earlier time in history bears little comparison to contemporary times in regard to what it takes to inspire individuals ...

The Importance of Early Nurturing

is Infancy, from birth to about age 1 year; the crisis is trust versus mistrust (Boeree, 2006). At this age, the infant is totally...

The American Revolution from a Female's Perspective

In an essay consisting of two pages the fictional account of life for a white colonial Patriot living in New York State during the...

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

In two pages this paper examines how American small town life is unsympathetically portrayed in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis....

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century's Literary Political Obligations

In seven pages this paper examines the political obligations John Locke and early American leaders faced during this time period. ...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

Women and the African Diaspora

practices of their homelands. African Diaspora in the 21st Century Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie (2002) addresses the issues associated w...

Yankton Sioux Zitkala Sa and Christianity's Impacts

non-Native culture, Zitkala was forced to leave her home and family at the young age of twelve. She was sent to a Quaker missiona...

Precontact Law and Government in Native America

contends that these rules included such considerations as individual rights, provisions for private property, and even adjudicatio...

Native Americans and End of Life Issues

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

Local Government and Casino Tax Revenue Regarding Native Americans

the boundaries of their federal reservations without being regulated by state or local law. There have been several tests...

Early American History Law Contradictions

independence brought the final break with Britain (Holton, 2000). Further, it was the refusal of these same individuals to joint t...