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developed, even barbaric (Ferro, 1997). This was true within the then US, there had been the perception of the Native Americans as...

among Indians has actually risen during ... the gaming boom" (Welker, 1997). There are more than 200 tribes with gaming establish...

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

Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...

a demand for their services. The Native Americans that own these casinos and work in them benefit economically and socially as th...

he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...

Johnson (1999) specifically addresses the path of negotiations between the Kalapuya and the US government, recounting the Kalapuya...

(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...

reveals that "70% of Cuban Americans, 64% of Puerto Ricans, and 50% of Mexican Americans 25 years-of-age and over have graduated f...

involve the use of the four directions which some may say could be construed as a square but when ceremonies are being undertaken ...

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

in well-baby exams for this group is establishing a rapport with the mother, a rapport that will gain her trust and her compliance...

of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought ...

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

Europeans and to observe that, while their culture has changed in some respects, they remain a distinctive cultural group even tod...

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

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...

"they opened up his [Native American] bowels. They tore the babes from their mothers breast and dashed their head against the roc...

under an imposed patriarchal structure" (Osburn 10). Arranged marriages and unions born out of convenience were not an unus...