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(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...

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

By that time the Indians were no longer valuable allies in the ongoing struggle for continental power, the importance of their con...

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

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...

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...

the federal money was also being used on boarding schools which were clearly not something that benefited the native people in any...

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

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

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

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

adjusted payment that Congress had authorized was delivered immediately (Mickey Z, 2008). Those that were owed more, however, wer...

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

tradition might be translated into a written format. Vizenors story is, on first appearance at least, a fantasy. Never-t...

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

indication of just how racial intolerance has guided history. Wrights (1987) "popular and perennial African-American characters" ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Although many Native American communities are admittedly moving away from their traditional ideological frameworks, their traditio...

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...