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House of Dawn by Momaday

begins, it can be stated, with a desire for land, goods, resources, and strategic military operations. In a struggle of strong ver...

Failed Approaches and Major Events Pertaining to White and Native American Interaction

chapters of the history of European domination in the so-called "New World" sometimes took slightly different directions. Such wa...

Interactions Between Native Americans and Early Europeans from Columbus to Cortez

came to yearn to sail to that land. He dubbed his plan to accomplish that goal the Enterprise of the Indies. He sought financial...

U.S. Immigration

poverty among immigrants who have been in the country less than ten years was 34.0 percent in 1994 and 22.4 percent in 2000; the r...

Nineteenth Century Racism and Native Americans

(through industrialization), rather than a place to keep pristine or clear. The problem was, in his treatise, Turner ignor...

Native Hawaiian Children and Bereavement Programs

child is becoming more socially aware and has a greater intellectual capacity, but still has problems regarding bereavement. This...

A Review of White Man's Indian

This six page essay explores the book by Robert Berkhofer, Jr. The writer emphasizes the diversity that characterizes Native Ameri...

European Land Abuse and Land Ethics of Native Americans

In eighteen pages this paper contrasts the environmental approaches of these two very distinct cultures as the ethical perspective...

Sacred Native American Sun Dance Ritualistic Ceremony

In five pages this paper examines the sacred ritualistic ceremony of the Sun Dance in an overview that includes the vision of Sitt...

Native Americans and the Effects of European Diseases

In ten pages this paper examines America's indigenous population and the impact of the disease the European colonists introduced t...

Rainbow Importance in the Native American Poem 'The Vision'

to Literature. 11th ed. Eds. Barnet, Sylvan, et al. New York: Longman, 1997. 723-724. RESEARCH OWNED & PUBLISHED GLOBALLY BY THE P...

Native American Cultural Component the Potlatch

In five pages the cultural aspects of the potlatch are described and it is argued that it is less a redistribution system than it ...

US Government and the Native American Influence

In five pages this paper examines how the Iroquois in particular influenced how the US government evolved in a consideration of Ex...

Jimmy Santiago Baca's Hispanic Native American Poetry

In five pages this paper examines Jimmy Santiago Baca's modern and totally unique style of poetry. Two sources are cited in the b...

Overview of the Shawnee Native American Tribe

any people, they had some confrontations with other groups, these confrontations were relatively small scale and of little overall...

Native American Algonquin Tribe

variety of dialects (1999). Algonquian-speaking peoples have dominated most of the northeastern North America (1999). Also confus...

1775 to 1840 Legal Status of Native Americans and African Slaves

bequeathed to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 came much sooner" (Holt, 2002). In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance m...

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson and Plight of Native Americans

during the nineteenth century they had been regarded as little more than an obstacle in the American quest for land and its resour...

Art and the Pottery of Pueblo Native Americans

clayware. While the fundamental basis of Pueblo pottery maintains much the same common denominator, there are enough pueblos that...

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...

Native American Earthworks and a Poverty Point Archaeological Investigation

extent of this importance can in part be gauged by the incredible material diversity which is present at the site, a diversity whi...

Life of Native American Activist Leonard Peltier

the government chose to push Native Americans off their reservations and into urban settings (Anonymous, 2001). The resulting prot...

A Native American Widow in an Interview One-On-One

of a different race. A student can use this process to quickly come to the realization that individual behavior and relationships ...

Native American Short Story 'High Horse's Counting'

speaking with the man directly, or setting about to use his mind to figure out a logical answer, he resorts to unethical behavior....

Review of the Native American Novel The Light People

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

"Native Son" And American History X" - Dual Racial Intolerance

indication of just how racial intolerance has guided history. Wrights (1987) "popular and perennial African-American characters" ...

Speaking Out: The Bonus Seekers, Textile Worker Strikes and Resistance to the Native American Reorganization Act

adjusted payment that Congress had authorized was delivered immediately (Mickey Z, 2008). Those that were owed more, however, wer...

Native American Oral Tradition: Parallels in the Literature

tradition might be translated into a written format. Vizenors story is, on first appearance at least, a fantasy. Never-t...

John Collier and Native American Policy

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

Storytelling in Two Native American Novels

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...