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Columbus, Hero or Villain?

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

Native Americans: The Four Directions

the directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...

The Bennett Scale and Milton Gordon on Assimilation and Native Populations

culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native Americ...

Benedicte Marie Wrensted’s Photographs of Native Americans

inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...

The Material Culture of Slaves in Early America

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

The Importance of Baseball to the “Miko Kings”

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

Relying Upon Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko as a Historical Source

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

Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

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

Corn Woman and Brave Wolf

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

Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States

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

James Longstreet and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...

Native Americans in Spain as Beings or an Obstacle?

In a paper that consists of five pages the ways the Spanish perceived Native Americans in Latin America and the Caribbean are exam...

Native Americans and Hetch Hetchy Valley

became the first whites to actually see the valley (Ahwahnee, 2007). The Screeches encountered Pah Utes (Paiutes) camping in Hetch...

Causes and Effects of the Mexican-American War

north (Lee, 2008). Many Americans agreed and moved to what was then the "Mexican province of Texas" (Lee, 2008). Furthermore, they...

Momaday and Alexie: Variations in the Ways Native American Authors Depict Their Culture

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

Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

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

The Myths of Westward Expansion

that the Anglo Americans were superior to the Natives. They believed that they had the power, and the right, to take over land. Wi...

Gatsby & The American Dream

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

Critical Period Hypothesis - Second Language Acquisition

knowledge and skill in a different way? The critical period hypothesis regarding acquiring a second language is not new. This hyp...

Kennewick Man Controversy and the NAGPRA

from Indian lands (Clark, 1999). The act has caused a great deal of controversy in the field of archaeology and has in many ways c...

Federalism and Rights of Native Americans

Although the Supreme Court decision in Seminole versus Florida went against the tribe, its our contention that the decision was wr...

Religious Roles of Native American Women

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

Societal Impact of 'The Trail of Tears'

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

The English Civil War and Puritanism and the American Colonies

of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....

Culture and Science Conflict

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

Modern Native American Literature and Cultural Conflict

Native American literature is interesting both in content and in the fact that it is a relatively recent phenomena. Native Americ...

Education and Native Americans

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

Viewing US History Differently

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

Native Americans as Perceived by English Colonists

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