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For example, strong hostility existed between Native Americans and the Spanish because the Spanish prohibited the Indians from pra...

English who had come to steal corn and the result was that the English colony waited until 1613 before their leaders were sufficie...

of the Native Americans, inasmuch as the settlers had no desire to include the indigenous people in their progressive plans. Rath...

It was also based on the Europeans ability to see Africans as a source for slave labor. Africans who were captured and shipped to ...

into contact with. The Choctaw Indian Nation has a history which predates the earliest Spanish explorers to America. Many of the...

example, that shaped the tribal communities and their emphasis on sharing resources as a primary value (Larson). The land was far ...

beginning. A blending of cultures is almost immediate in that even a culture which rises from the ashes of a decolonized nation is...

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

(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...

effort in categorizing the tribes that populated the area and speculating as to their origin. He observed their subsistence patte...

its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

There the Choctaw would ally themselves with the French and would have extensive warfare with the Chickasaw. The Creeks on the ot...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

This paper pertains to Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe, who journeyed out of the wild where he had lived alone for 35 year...

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

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...

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

This paper reveals one common factor in the way whites have perceived Native Americans through our interactions over time. Example...

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

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

people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...