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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'...

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...

Restorative Justice and Traditional Cultures

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

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...

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....

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...

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...

U.S. - Native American Relations from 1850-1890

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

Silko/Setting in Ceremony

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

Mato Tilpali: Conflict in the Black Hills

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

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...

Socialization of Native Americans

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

Oral Traditions of Native Americans

saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...

Beliefs of Hopi and Iroquois Native Americans

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...

Paula G. Allen's Spider Woman's Granddaughters and Gordon Henry Jr.'s Light People

impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...

Native American Ceremony and the Importance of the Circle

involve the use of the four directions which some may say could be construed as a square but when ceremonies are being undertaken ...

Native American Baby Wellness Checkups

in well-baby exams for this group is establishing a rapport with the mother, a rapport that will gain her trust and her compliance...

Fools Crow by James Welch Questions Answered

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

Group Labeling and an Investigation of Differences VI

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

Viejas and Morongo Tribal Cultural and Economic Transformations

a demand for their services. The Native Americans that own these casinos and work in them benefit economically and socially as th...

'What You Pawn I Will Redeem' by Sherman Alexie

he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...

Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest

Johnson (1999) specifically addresses the path of negotiations between the Kalapuya and the US government, recounting the Kalapuya...

Native Americans and End of Life Issues

people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...

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 ...

Contrasting and Comparing Native Americans and Buddhists

In six pages differences and similarities among the cultures of Native Americans and Buddhists are examined. Seven sources are ci...

The Works of Oskison and Posey

Various pieces of literature are explored, compared and contrasted. These are Native American works and beliefs are discussed as c...

Native American Culture Changes

In six pages the arrival of the Europeans to the continent and the changes that resulted in Native American cultures are examined....

Application of Economic Anthropology

In six pages patterns of subsistence that existed among the European colonists and the Native Americans are subjected to an econom...