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This research paper/essay presents an argument that it would be morally and legally right for the federal government to return to ...

This essay looks at the battle of the Little Bighorn, which is famous as the location of Custer's defeat by Native Americans, and ...

ones who live in the woods" (Erdrich 87). June marries Maries son Gordie - one of her childhood tormentors - and enters, not surp...

A people that call themselves the Winnemen...

The Sand Creek Massacre is among the worst atrocities that have ever occurred in our countrys history. The Sand Creek Massacre ca...

This essay offers a comparison between Sherman Alexie's "The Trial of Thomas Builds-The-Fire" and "Turtle Lake" by Gloria Bird. Th...

This paper reveals one common factor in the way whites have perceived Native Americans through our interactions over time. Example...

This paper compares and contrasts the positives and negatives of nineteenth century boarding schools for Native Americans. There a...

This paper pertains to Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe, who journeyed out of the wild where he had lived alone for 35 year...

This 5 page paper discusses how mainstream white culture has treated Native Americans as inferiors throughout much of our country'...

This paper discusses the disintegration of cultural tradition as it relates to the physical disruption of people's communities and...

This paper asks whether we have bastardized Native American language by appropriating it in sports and mass marketing. There are ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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