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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...

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

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...

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

supreme being. This attribution was fatalistic in that it meant that there was little hope for mankind overall, however. Man was...

The history of the coca plant, Erythroxylum coca, is discussed in this paper, including its cultivation in Peru, Colombia and Boli...

In ten pages this paper examines intercultural relationships as featured in the text's portrayal of early 18th century Native Amer...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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...

The non-Native culture epitomized in the fledgling U.S. was almost one-hundred percent different from Native American culture. Th...

acclimatization did not occur overnight, but rather over an extended period of time as the physiological composition of such plant...

portrayed the Native Americans as reminiscent of the ancient civilization for Spartan, which was highly efficient and egalitarian....

renown for its rich biodiversity (Cockrem, 2003). "Eighty-five percent of the island nations plants and animals are found nowhere...