YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Nineteenth Century Native Americans
Essays 541 - 570
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...
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...
intentionally changed, actions which were all believed justified under the predominant mindset of "manifest destiny". The rel...
2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...
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...
The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...
its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...
effort in categorizing the tribes that populated the area and speculating as to their origin. He observed their subsistence patte...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...
(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...
the directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...
culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native Americ...
became the first whites to actually see the valley (Ahwahnee, 2007). The Screeches encountered Pah Utes (Paiutes) camping in Hetch...
of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...
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...
the Native Americans undoubtedly traveled extensively in prehistoric times. Their reasons for this travel and their consequent ar...
Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...
a demand for their services. The Native Americans that own these casinos and work in them benefit economically and socially as th...
he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...
Johnson (1999) specifically addresses the path of negotiations between the Kalapuya and the US government, recounting the Kalapuya...
people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...
involve the use of the four directions which some may say could be construed as a square but when ceremonies are being undertaken ...
in well-baby exams for this group is establishing a rapport with the mother, a rapport that will gain her trust and her compliance...
(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...
society has assigned this group is not that by which they prefer to be identified. The Navajo prefer to refer to themselves as th...
reveals that "70% of Cuban Americans, 64% of Puerto Ricans, and 50% of Mexican Americans 25 years-of-age and over have graduated f...