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Myth and Its Importance in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In four pages this paper examines the importance of Native American heritage and the protagonist's desire to reconnect in the nove...

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

In five pages this report examines the history of the massacre at Wounded Knee and how the author increases reader awareness of is...

Future Lessons in the Past Story of Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

since the first European stepped foot on Native soil. Since its "discovery", most often credited to Columbus in 1492, to the curr...

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 ...

Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan

In five pages this Native American text is analyzed in terms of content, meaning, and gender relationships. There are no other so...

Catherine Maria Sedgwick's 'Hope Leslie'

In five pages this paper considers the contents of this novel in terms of the topical issues it covers and the ways in which Nativ...

Mythology of Native Americans

cites that as many as several hundred thousand must exist collectively (Gill & Sullivan, 1992). Each myth that I came across was...

Native American Definition

In seven pages this paper defines what it means to be a Native American beyond the typically offered stereotypical image. Seven s...

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...

Addressing the Problem of Native American Suicide

water for a significant percentage of these people. The dissolution of the nuclear family is another problem that should be mor...

Native American Images as Mascots

answered the magazines poll, who do not care. But, there are seemingly far more people who are greatly offended by such images....

Nineteenth Century New France

an invasion. This was not an unclaimed and unused continent. Indeed, indigenous peoples not only lived here but rightfully claim...

Sherman Alexie’s Integration

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

Key Events in Colonial and Native Interactions

as being better than Native Americans in some way. The English and the American colonist neither understood Native culture nor did...

Joy Harjo and the Dawn Butterflies

a poem. It is a series of these paragraphs, each building on the previous one until the reader can form a picture of what has happ...

Women's Roles in Latin America vs. Native America

is helpful to look at the traditional roots of Native American and Latino cultures. Traditionally, the women of Native American c...

Art and Music A Reflection of and an Impact to American Culture

This paper examines art like a diversity of art to discern its impact on our culture. World War II's Rosie the Riveter is explore...

Restorative Justice and Traditional Cultures

The concept of restorative justice is something that is intriguing people from all...

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich and June Kashpaw's Powerful Influence

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

Justice and Native Americans

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

Disrespect and Language The Appropriation of Native American Language and Culture

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

Historic and Contemporary Prejudice Against Native Americans

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

Battle of Little Bighorn

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

Culture and the Mortuary Practices of Native Americans

In thirty pages this paper discusses the cultural importance of Native American mortuary practices and burial rituals. Sixteen so...

Creek and Cherokee Tribes and Traditional Southeastern Dance Decline

In six pages this paper examines the reasons why traditional Southeastern Native American dances like the stomp dance have decline...

Native American Culture and Totem Poles

might be suggested by valued animal faces. The most important aspect of totem poles utilized to demonstrate lineage is that the...

Pacific Ocean and Totem Poles

and a change in the way of life occurred for the Indians. As a result, the ocean became the center of their way of life (Garbarino...

Sacred Pipe of Native Americans, Ritual, and Repatriation

In ten pages this paper discusses the Sacred Pipe of Native American cultures particularly the Lakota Sioux in a consideration of ...

Native Americans and Gambling

In five pages this paper presents the argument that on Native American reservations gambling should not be allowed with the detrim...