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

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

(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...

reveals that "70% of Cuban Americans, 64% of Puerto Ricans, and 50% of Mexican Americans 25 years-of-age and over have graduated f...

with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...

an exciting adventure yarn. The ships are blown away in a hurricane; horses are killed; and the Spanish miss Cuba and land in Flo...

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

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...

of Angela addresses the rituals that surround marriage in Latin American culture during this time. Bayardo brings Angela presents,...

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...

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

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

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

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

particularly with the theme of human vanity and the transience of life." The student also notes that there is a sense of wealth se...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...

In a paper that consists of five pages the ways the Spanish perceived Native Americans in Latin America and the Caribbean are exam...

In seven pages this paper examines Silko's novel from a historical context in an analysis of what Ceremony reveals about the latte...

or are from cultures different from that of the viewer, nuances in meaning may not be readily apparent. For example, consider the ...