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Jerry Mander/The Indian Worldview

of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...

California Desert Species of Animals and Plants

acclimatization did not occur overnight, but rather over an extended period of time as the physiological composition of such plant...

Native American Algonquin Tribe

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

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Violence and How It Functions in the Writings of Richard Wright, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck

who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...

Moody's Portrait of Racism

by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...

Religious Roles of Native American Women

contact, for women typically remained at home when the men of tribe had contact with the Europeans who encroached ever closer into...

Father's Eulogy in Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

known. In part, "Notes of a Native Son" became particularly well-known since it was, what Allen refers to as being "... an oblique...

Native Medical System of Iran

help have as great an expanse of knowledge as is possible. This will also help the Iranian doctors to "find work in the private s...

Kennewick Man Controversy and the NAGPRA

from Indian lands (Clark, 1999). The act has caused a great deal of controversy in the field of archaeology and has in many ways c...

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...

Momaday and Alexie: Variations in the Ways Native American Authors Depict Their Culture

Americans are in actuality much more oppressed by government regulations and society as a whole than they were in this earlier tim...

An American Genocide

Western expansion. This expansion was regarded by White Americans as Manifest Destiny, while Native Americans viewed it, and right...

Thomas King/Medicine River and Canadian Literature

the bearer of Native Canadian culture. For example, the novel opens with Harlen inviting Will to lunch at 10 a.m. and talking abou...

Summary and Questions on the Last Three Chapters of Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker

politicians ordeal. Henrys feelings of loneliness and isolation are revealed in a type of flashback manner that links the social ...

Critical Period Hypothesis - Second Language Acquisition

knowledge and skill in a different way? The critical period hypothesis regarding acquiring a second language is not new. This hyp...

The Truth About Stories by Thomas King

all realities and truths in a single work. In relationship to who this book is intended for one could well argue that...

The Myths of Westward Expansion

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

Problems Facing Native American Nations

This difference resulted in friction between the peoples of this new nation (and in particular its government) and the Native Amer...

The Accuracy of American History Books

faced. Foner explains that by the time the Savannah Colloquy would come around, slavery was already an institution3. He explains t...

Native American Influences on Modern American Culture

also being reflected in modern culture with the search for a spiritual connection with the earth, which is a value being adopted a...

Columbus, Hero or Villain?

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

Colonialism's Effect on Anthropology

"Day after day, minute to minute, Tutsi by Tutsi: all across Rwanda, they worked" (Gourevitch, 1998; p. 18), the sole purpose of t...

Native Americans: The Four Directions

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

Flood Stories Among the Toltec, Maya, and Navajo

(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...

“Major Problems in California History”

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

Benedicte Marie Wrensted’s Photographs of Native Americans

inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...

Mabo and Others V. Queensland (No. 2) [1992] HCA 23

of the jurisdiction of the courts with the passing of the Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory Act in 1985. This act made a declar...

Canadian Aboriginal Schools as Cultural Genocide

system, the rationale for establishing the system was unabashedly one of assimilation. Nicholas F. Davin, who proposed the system ...

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...