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In "Sitting Bull and the Paradox of the Lakota Nationhood" author Gary Clayton Anderson details the contradictions which are inher...

contends that these rules included such considerations as individual rights, provisions for private property, and even adjudicatio...

the boundaries of their federal reservations without being regulated by state or local law. There have been several tests...

This paper reviews the seventeenth century accounts by Mary Rowlandson and Increase Mather. Rowlandson was held captive by Native...

This research paper/essay discusses various issues in American history pertaining to liberty. This includes the factors that led u...

independence brought the final break with Britain (Holton, 2000). Further, it was the refusal of these same individuals to joint t...

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

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the immigrant experiences of the Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and African ...

into contact with. The Choctaw Indian Nation has a history which predates the earliest Spanish explorers to America. Many of the...

It was also based on the Europeans ability to see Africans as a source for slave labor. Africans who were captured and shipped to ...

example, that shaped the tribal communities and their emphasis on sharing resources as a primary value (Larson). The land was far ...

beginning. A blending of cultures is almost immediate in that even a culture which rises from the ashes of a decolonized nation is...

setting, however, the model would be male and dressed in a costume of the old west, complete with chaps, spurs, boots and a cowboy...

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

they ultimately became part of the majority as their facial features and skin color were not obviously different. But, with the Na...

culture is quite different from mainstream culture in many aspects, on a daily basis. In this region of the country, for ex...

the subjects soul in order answer the call of meaning so critical to the postmodern movement. The photography unarguably becomes ...

certain representatives European origin made their way to the Americas. The exact time of the earliest of these encounters is con...

English who had come to steal corn and the result was that the English colony waited until 1613 before their leaders were sufficie...

took a vicious Civil War to legally end the "peculiar institution," although the South continued to pass such things as the Jim Cr...

of the Native Americans, inasmuch as the settlers had no desire to include the indigenous people in their progressive plans. Rath...

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

take place at the fort (2005). The Shawnees did not accept the land which was set aside by the Fort McIntosh agreement ("Treaty...

its many treasures. Not only were their cultures tremendous varied, so too were the various regions that they called home and the...

As such there is not a great deal written on the African American experience and the story of the Louisiana Native Guards is one t...

means, in turn, there "are no Prisons, no Officers to compel Obedience, or inflict Punishment. Hence they generally study Oratory,...

predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

has been noted, the question of precisely when Native Americans arrived in the Americas is surrounded more by speculation than it ...

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

In five pages this historical text by Jill Lepore is analyzed in a consideration of how American identity was shaped by that long ...