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Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

the Europeans who had invaded Native American lands. The English to whom we most often attribute the negativities of history in r...

was not construed as legitimate. Today, that is far from the case. History is a valid and viable subject and one that is taught fr...

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

that the Anglo Americans were superior to the Natives. They believed that they had the power, and the right, to take over land. Wi...

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

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

50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...

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

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

thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought ...

People identify, after all, with people that are similar to them. Ebonics has the potential, therefore, to serve as a common link...

this perspective the pow wow evolved in accordance with trade needs. Native peoples and those Europeans that had invaded their la...

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

notes, "Silko reveals that living in Laguna society as a mixed blood from a prominent family caused her a lot of pain. It meant b...

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

not a detriment. Consider, for example, the Mississippi Choctaw. At least one anthropologists has termed the Mississippi Choctaw...

discussed in more detail below, it represents a phenomenal improvement in the way the parental and familial rights of Native Ameri...

the states obligation to act justly and equally toward all citizens" (ACRI, 2002). Those Bedouins who chose to bypass the milita...

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

been a slave and not due to his celebrity status among abolitionists for having endured slavery. In order to fully appreciate th...

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

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...

involve the use of the four directions which some may say could be construed as a square but when ceremonies are being undertaken ...

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

Mato Tipila regularly as part of my religious observations, this is not only a political issue for me but also a personal issue. ...

the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...

represent significant social power, as in the case of beauty, wealth and status, or they can symbolize aspects of society that peo...

means that while these organizations serve a public purpose of some sort, they also "meet the interests, needs and desires of the ...