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This essay offers a comparison between Sherman Alexie's "The Trial of Thomas Builds-The-Fire" and "Turtle Lake" by Gloria Bird. Th...

This paper discusses the disintegration of cultural tradition as it relates to the physical disruption of people's communities and...

The Sand Creek Massacre is among the worst atrocities that have ever occurred in our countrys history. The Sand Creek Massacre ca...

Jimmy thinks back to his childhood. At any rate, it is a startling introduction to life as Jimmy and other Indians live it. It al...

that veered off into the direction of Communism and/or democracy when in the company of Soviet dignitaries, inasmuch as one slip o...

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

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

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

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

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

the serious topics addressed. Above all, this is a story about a search for family. As Okinaway goes through life, he does seem t...

cultural influence and at times, military advantage for the country. At the same time, the various forms of mass media have deve...

speaking with the man directly, or setting about to use his mind to figure out a logical answer, he resorts to unethical behavior....

In five pages this paper examines the sacred ritualistic ceremony of the Sun Dance in an overview that includes the vision of Sitt...

any people, they had some confrontations with other groups, these confrontations were relatively small scale and of little overall...

In five pages this paper examines how the Iroquois in particular influenced how the US government evolved in a consideration of Ex...

In five pages the cultural aspects of the potlatch are described and it is argued that it is less a redistribution system than it ...

In eighteen pages this paper contrasts the environmental approaches of these two very distinct cultures as the ethical perspective...

In five pages this paper examines Jimmy Santiago Baca's modern and totally unique style of poetry. Two sources are cited in the b...

to Literature. 11th ed. Eds. Barnet, Sylvan, et al. New York: Longman, 1997. 723-724. RESEARCH OWNED & PUBLISHED GLOBALLY BY THE P...

In ten pages this paper examines America's indigenous population and the impact of the disease the European colonists introduced t...

the government chose to push Native Americans off their reservations and into urban settings (Anonymous, 2001). The resulting prot...

of a different race. A student can use this process to quickly come to the realization that individual behavior and relationships ...

extent of this importance can in part be gauged by the incredible material diversity which is present at the site, a diversity whi...

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

during the nineteenth century they had been regarded as little more than an obstacle in the American quest for land and its resour...

bequeathed to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 came much sooner" (Holt, 2002). In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance m...

which Tocqueville noted between white and red, between savage and civilized, was an ever-present factor, in fact in the interactio...

clayware. While the fundamental basis of Pueblo pottery maintains much the same common denominator, there are enough pueblos that...

the wives would remain with their own family. After the Church organized the marriage, couples were encouraged to set up their own...