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Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

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

Momaday and Alexie: Variations in the Ways Native American Authors Depict Their Culture

Americans are in actuality much more oppressed by government regulations and society as a whole than they were in this earlier tim...

The Bennett Scale and Milton Gordon on Assimilation and Native Populations

culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native Americ...

Native Americans and Hetch Hetchy Valley

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

The Importance of Baseball to the “Miko Kings”

during the summer of 2006, hidden in the walls of Lenas grandmothers house" (Meland, 2007). The spirit of Ezol begins to come to L...

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...

Flood Stories Among the Toltec, Maya, and Navajo

(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...

“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...

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...

Columbus, Hero or Villain?

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

Native Americans: The Four Directions

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

Reintroduction of the Gray Wolf

its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...

Colonial America: New England and the Chesapeake

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

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 ...

Communication of Native Americans

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

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...

Equality Concept, Conflicting Ideology, and Thomas Jefferson

of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...

Film Entertainment and Native Americans

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

Native American Perspectives on Ecology, Feminism, and Activism

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

Native Americans as Perceived by Walt Whitman

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

Western Settlement, Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, and the Expedition of Lewis and Clark

Lewis and Clark expedition would be on American soil right up to the point it crossed the Rocky Mountains (Fritz, 2001)....

The Evolution of Federal Native-American Policy

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

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...

Sociological Concepts Applied to a Navajo Identity Description

Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...

The Origin of the First Americans

the Native Americans undoubtedly traveled extensively in prehistoric times. Their reasons for this travel and their consequent ar...

US Government's Failure of the Late Nineteenth Century Assimilation of Native Americans

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

Viejas and Morongo Tribal Cultural and Economic Transformations

a demand for their services. The Native Americans that own these casinos and work in them benefit economically and socially as th...

'What You Pawn I Will Redeem' by Sherman Alexie

he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...

Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest

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

A Review of The Origins of Canadian Indian Policy

By that time the Indians were no longer valuable allies in the ongoing struggle for continental power, the importance of their con...