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Although the Supreme Court decision in Seminole versus Florida went against the tribe, its our contention that the decision was wr...
the first tasks undertaken by Weatherford is to define the term "Native American" itself. Indeed, the term Native American is a c...
Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...
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...
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...
however, which is present in all Native American Religions. That element is the integral tie between Native American spirituality...
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...
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...
There the Choctaw would ally themselves with the French and would have extensive warfare with the Chickasaw. The Creeks on the ot...
has the lovely olive skin and dark thick glossy hair so apparent in her Kiowa people. Some of Pamelas in-laws, especially the old...
formed a Native American Heritage Commission to attempt to police the digs (Sacred Burial Grounds: The Controversy Continues, 1992...
who occupied the planet. However, this noble policy was short-lived when the settlers moved their way into Cherokee region, event...
: Sources of Global History and Bulliet et als Earth and Its Peoples : A Global History Since 1750 are instrumental in illustratin...
importance than some treaty provisions given the location of most Native American reservations in the arid West (Lewis, 2001). Wa...
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...
as being better than Native Americans in some way. The English and the American colonist neither understood Native culture nor did...
water for a significant percentage of these people. The dissolution of the nuclear family is another problem that should be mor...
is helpful to look at the traditional roots of Native American and Latino cultures. Traditionally, the women of Native American c...
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...
answered the magazines poll, who do not care. But, there are seemingly far more people who are greatly offended by such images....
past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...
kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...
contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...