YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Plea for a Native American Alliance
Essays 361 - 390
an exciting adventure yarn. The ships are blown away in a hurricane; horses are killed; and the Spanish miss Cuba and land in Flo...
Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...
the Native Americans undoubtedly traveled extensively in prehistoric times. Their reasons for this travel and their consequent ar...
impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...
(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...
discussed in more detail below, it represents a phenomenal improvement in the way the parental and familial rights of Native Ameri...
thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought ...
Europeans and to observe that, while their culture has changed in some respects, they remain a distinctive cultural group even tod...
poverty among immigrants who have been in the country less than ten years was 34.0 percent in 1994 and 22.4 percent in 2000; the r...
notes, "Silko reveals that living in Laguna society as a mixed blood from a prominent family caused her a lot of pain. It meant b...
of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...
Lewis and Clark expedition would be on American soil right up to the point it crossed the Rocky Mountains (Fritz, 2001)....
been painted by historians was simply untrue. Clearly, the Europeans took the land that belonged to the Indians. While few dispute...
of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...
culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native Americ...
that the Anglo Americans were superior to the Natives. They believed that they had the power, and the right, to take over land. Wi...
its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...
(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...
doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
perpetrator to go free without any legal recourse speaks to the need for another option whereby the alleged criminal serves time, ...
the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...
Mato Tipila regularly as part of my religious observations, this is not only a political issue for me but also a personal issue. ...
Insanity, of course, is a slightly different issue than competency but never-the-less the two are related. The insanity defense i...
its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...
accused and the prosecutor takes two forms in the United States: a charge bargain and a sentence bargain. The former lessens the ...
verse is the Vow of Praise: "I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good" (v 6). ...
to be effective; if the defendant fails in his commitment to his rehabilitation, he will find himself facing the jail sentence. ...