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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'...

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 ...

Degrading Native Americans The Santee Sioux and Ishi

This paper reveals one common factor in the way whites have perceived Native Americans through our interactions over time. Example...

Indian Boarding Schools Good or Bad?

This paper compares and contrasts the positives and negatives of nineteenth century boarding schools for Native Americans. There a...

Ishi, the Last of his Tribe

This paper pertains to Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe, who journeyed out of the wild where he had lived alone for 35 year...

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...

Nineteenth Century New France

an invasion. This was not an unclaimed and unused continent. Indeed, indigenous peoples not only lived here but rightfully claim...

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...

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....

Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States

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

Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

Corn Woman and Brave Wolf

kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...

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...

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...

Native Americans in Spain as Beings or an Obstacle?

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

Relying Upon Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko as a Historical Source

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

The Importance of Baseball to the “Miko Kings”

during the summer of 2006, hidden in the walls of Lenas grandmothers house" (Meland, 2007). The spirit of Ezol begins to come to L...

The Material Culture of Slaves in Early America

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

Multicultural Communication; Potential Difficulties

effective it needs to be understood by the people whom the ideas are being communicated to. There is a communication failure when ...

The Problem of Violence in America

4 pages and 4 sources. This paper provides an overview of a potential proposal for the American Commander-in-Chief to address the...

The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

Nutrition Issues of Mexican Americans

In five pages this paper examines the problems Mexicans experience in American life adaptivity with a consideration of lifestyles,...

American Diversity

and economic issues must be considered along with positions of ethnic and religious minorities as well as issues that go to enviro...

Drug Use in the Workplace and its Solutions

within the workplace; in fact, in a recent study, it was chosen as the "most frequent substance used"5 to the tune of eighty-seven...

The Condition of Education for Black Americans

know, were first brought over to the United States as slaves. At that point in time the African American had a different language ...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

Women and Children as Products in the Sex Industry

Women and children have been exploited throughout history by those that seek to profit in one way or another from that...

American Son by Brian Roley

ways. At the beginning of the novel, they follow a Cain and Abel dichotomy. Gabe is the good and obedient child, "the son who is q...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...