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Failed Approaches and Major Events Pertaining to White and Native American Interaction

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

House of Dawn by Momaday

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

U.S. Immigration

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...

Nineteenth Century Racism and Native Americans

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

Interactions Between Native Americans and Early Europeans from Columbus to Cortez

came to yearn to sail to that land. He dubbed his plan to accomplish that goal the Enterprise of the Indies. He sought financial...

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...

Sights and Culture of the Pow Wow

this perspective the pow wow evolved in accordance with trade needs. Native peoples and those Europeans that had invaded their la...

“Major Problems in California History”

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

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...

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...

Native American Images as Mascots

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

Joy Harjo and the Dawn Butterflies

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...

Women's Roles in Latin America vs. Native America

is helpful to look at the traditional roots of Native American and Latino cultures. Traditionally, the women of Native American c...

Nineteenth Century New France

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

Sherman Alexie’s Integration

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

Key Events in Colonial and Native Interactions

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

Addressing the Problem of Native American Suicide

water for a significant percentage of these people. The dissolution of the nuclear family is another problem that should be mor...

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich and June Kashpaw's Powerful Influence

ones who live in the woods" (Erdrich 87). June marries Maries son Gordie - one of her childhood tormentors - and enters, not surp...

Battle of Little Bighorn

This essay looks at the battle of the Little Bighorn, which is famous as the location of Custer's defeat by Native Americans, and ...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Falsehoods and Misconceptions Regarding the Native American Healing Ceremonies

In five pages this paper discusses the healing ceremony and its importance to the spirituality of Native Americans and dispels the...

Capitalism and Exploitation of Chinese, Irish, and Italian Immigrants and Native Americans

In seven pages the ways in which capitalism has exploited the Native Americans and discriminated against immigrants most notably t...