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the first tasks undertaken by Weatherford is to define the term "Native American" itself. Indeed, the term Native American is a c...

was regulated by his kinship system (Hudson 184). The kinship system provided sets of neat categories, categories for enemies, fo...

that "all these houses have very large and very good rooms and also very pleasant gardens of various sorts of flowers both on the ...

contains sufficient elements of the repulsive to also inspire some degree of disgust or horror....

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

importance than some treaty provisions given the location of most Native American reservations in the arid West (Lewis, 2001). Wa...

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

is nothing wrong, per se, with a particular plant . . .until it threatens the plants that are supposed to be in a particular area ...

native people for their own agendas toward cleaning up the earth. Those in the environmental movement dont seem to care about the ...

Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...

p. 59). Upon his arrival in the Yucatan Peninsula, Cortes and his group immediately skirmished with the Mayan Indians, who were o...

quite unique as well and has played a significant role in shaping various aspects of the culture. Three parallel belts of distinc...

the world tend to be heavily influenced by their methods of acquiring food, whether by hunting wild animals or by agriculture. Nat...

programs exist with the purpose of offering health-care services to this population specifically. Many more improvements have b...

statement elsewhere, but, to the best of my recollection, there was never any serious attempt to turn Native Americans into a work...

Rocky was killed, Emo became an alcoholic and Tayos condition was left uncured by white medicine (Austgen, 2002). Tayo again has...

followers of John Calvin (Readers Companion to American History, 1991). The Puritans would begin their influx to the Americas in ...

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

while in other ways in a project such as this, it could spell disaster, and very nearly did. When peoples lives are at stake such...

who occupied the planet. However, this noble policy was short-lived when the settlers moved their way into Cherokee region, event...

learn the ways in which standard English developed -- that no language remains "fixed" but is rather a constantly evolving, adapti...

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

to be so necessary for proper development of the physical body and freedom from disease. The Neurs especially valued the livers of...

formed a Native American Heritage Commission to attempt to police the digs (Sacred Burial Grounds: The Controversy Continues, 1992...

To children, the game is a simplistic as is their perception of the world around them, which they view with innocence, truth and i...

has the lovely olive skin and dark thick glossy hair so apparent in her Kiowa people. Some of Pamelas in-laws, especially the old...

known. In part, "Notes of a Native Son" became particularly well-known since it was, what Allen refers to as being "... an oblique...

help have as great an expanse of knowledge as is possible. This will also help the Iranian doctors to "find work in the private s...

by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...

contact, for women typically remained at home when the men of tribe had contact with the Europeans who encroached ever closer into...