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Americans are in actuality much more oppressed by government regulations and society as a whole than they were in this earlier tim...

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...

that he does not enjoy or desire. His values are apparently different than his tribes and he leaves his tribe because of the warri...

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

during the summer of 2006, hidden in the walls of Lenas grandmothers house" (Meland, 2007). The spirit of Ezol begins to come to L...

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

In seven pages this paper examines Silko's novel from a historical context in an analysis of what Ceremony reveals about the latte...

an invasion. This was not an unclaimed and unused continent. Indeed, indigenous peoples not only lived here but rightfully claim...

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

with those European peoples that ultimately came to represent Canadas majority. These impacts are 1. an almost complete change i...

want students to learn accurate language. Communication needs to be grammatically correct with proper syntax and so on (Kagan, 199...

as being better than Native Americans in some way. The English and the American colonist neither understood Native culture nor did...

the issues and points involved, this writer/tutor will offer the student investigating this subject suggestions on how this debate...

answered the magazines poll, who do not care. But, there are seemingly far more people who are greatly offended by such images....

a poem. It is a series of these paragraphs, each building on the previous one until the reader can form a picture of what has happ...

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...

as a means of removing the pressure from: "wild fish stocks, while addressing the growing...

chapters of the history of European domination in the so-called "New World" sometimes took slightly different directions. Such wa...

begins, it can be stated, with a desire for land, goods, resources, and strategic military operations. In a struggle of strong ver...

historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

(through industrialization), rather than a place to keep pristine or clear. The problem was, in his treatise, Turner ignor...

own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...

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...

not a detriment. Consider, for example, the Mississippi Choctaw. At least one anthropologists has termed the Mississippi Choctaw...

discussed in more detail below, it represents a phenomenal improvement in the way the parental and familial rights of Native Ameri...

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

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...