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Cherokee Indians and Religion

the Cherokee from their homelands, the establishment of a government reservation for the people, and the ultimate separation of th...

Cherokee Indians' Mortuary Practices

which the Cherokee deal with the dead has, of course, changed considerably over time as well. While today Cherokee mortuary pract...

Thomas A. Bailey and the Trail of Tears

as noted above deserves some further expansion so that we know how to respond to it. When he discusses Baileys remarks, Peloso is ...

Plains Indians' Tipi

plains. Their mobile lifestyle necessitated mobile housing. The tipi was the result. Sometimes misspelled as "teepee", the tipi...

Native American Culture and Manifest Destiny

to describe concept that concerned the way that the people of America made it what it is today by the events that occurred during ...

Andrew Jackson and Indian Removal

This essay discusses good and bad policies of the Andrew Jackson administration, and argues that the good are not enough to negate...

What is Hinduism?

adherents and the West. Features of Hinduism Many Hindus endorse the idea of a transcendent God that exists "beyond the universe,...

Cherokee Art

pottery is, in fact, one of the most simplistic Cherokee art forms but yet it is one of the most utilitarian. Cherokee craftsmans...

Land Removal of the Cherokee

In twenty pages this paper examines the removal of the Cherokee in a consideration of contributing factors and what took place aft...

American Indian Sovereignty

The indigenous peoples of the Americas have suffered long and hard since their juxtaposition of their cultures against those of th...

Strategic Plan for Dell

computer users - and therefore buyers - insist that they will not purchase another Dell computer unless and until Dell provides so...

India's Economy Analyzed

scientific advancements made by India concern their testing of nuclear bombs. This development has resulted in sanctions being iss...

Hindu and Buddha Images Contrasted and Compared

In a paper consisting of eight pages Hindu images of 'preserver' Vishnu and 'destroyer' Shiva are contrasted and compared with Bud...

History of the Chickasaw Indians

In fifteen pages this paper examines the Chickasaw Indians in an historical overview that includes religion, culture, and U.S. gov...

India's Jainism and Its Founder Mahavira

is important, first consider the significance of Judeo-Christian tradition in Western society. To fully understand the forces form...

Society of India and Women

and their domestic responsibilities before themselves (Varma and Agrawal, 1992). In order to initiate sociological advancement, m...

Mythical and Religious Themes in the Eastern Art Tradition

in regard to religious art. Religion, of course, is very diverse in India. Hindu is the primary religion (comprising 82.6 percen...

A Comparison of Five Religions

Koran, Jews follow the Torah or Tanakh (Rich, 2006), Buddhists follow the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama was is also known as the...

Indian Religion Jainism

In six pages Jainism's history and belief systems are considered in an overview that also makes comparisons with the Buddhist spir...

Discussing Indian Religion

In a paper consisting of two and a half pages a situation in which the writer overhears a conversation between a Saiva tantric pra...

Ancient Indian Religions

not possible to work backwards to reconstruct the Harappan faith from the Vedic (Hooker, 1999). The second period is that of the...

Indian Politics and the Significance of Religion

With this, one may be critical of modern life (1008). Further, some thinkers look at Durkheims "social cement " and equate it wit...

Differing Views on Native American Distinctions

the historical record to present well-documented evidence that Native Americans did indeed have not only an opinion but an express...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Jerry Mander/The Indian Worldview

of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...

"Indian Givers"

would be hard to take in everything at one sitting (Moyers, 2002). Weatherford claims there are literally no areas of modern civil...

Jane Tomkin/"Indians"

Indians, but rather how scholarship can lead an historian to this answer. What is her conclusion to this overriding issue? Over...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Plains Indians' Military Campaigns

that had hired on with the Calvary (Hoxie, 1995). These scouts were just a handful of the thirty-three scouts that were under Cus...

Nineteenth Century 'War' of Tecumseh

to who Eckert has his characters refer to as "the tales of the old people" the meteor was "The Panther -- a powerful spirit passin...