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Historical Development of the Irish Language

its history, was a country that was invaded many times, and settled by a variety of different groups (Irelandseye.com, 2004). By t...

Hospital Setting Language Miscommunication

its founding in the late 18th century, the United States has opened its borders to people from a variety of countries and cultures...

Autobiography of Oladauh Equiano

own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...

Art and the Pottery of Pueblo Native Americans

clayware. While the fundamental basis of Pueblo pottery maintains much the same common denominator, there are enough pueblos that...

Red, White, and Black by Gary B. Nash

portrayed the Native Americans as reminiscent of the ancient civilization for Spartan, which was highly efficient and egalitarian....

Canadian Aboriginals: Evolving Identities and an Emerging Hybridity

of European descent. Interestingly, however, aboriginals were viewed simultaneously with distaste, with awe, and with envy. They...

Colonialism's Effect on Anthropology

"Day after day, minute to minute, Tutsi by Tutsi: all across Rwanda, they worked" (Gourevitch, 1998; p. 18), the sole purpose of t...

Children's Literature and Authentic Voices

writer, is even more emphatic in warning against reading books about cultures written by those outside the culture, in particular ...

Plato's Republic and Five Essay Questions

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...

Native Tribes of South America

on the average, 2.5 times as many wives and three times as many children as those who have not. (Chagnoy, 1993). "These num...

Incan Life Before and After the European Colonial Intervention

In thirty pages this paper examines how the Incan society was affected by the European colonial intervention in a consideration of...

Trade Goods and Their Impacts

This paper points out that cultures can change in unexpected ways just because of our adoption of some seemingly harmless material...

Natives, Europeans in the New World, and Christopher Columbus

In eight pages the New World meeting between Columbus's power wielding Europeans and the native inhabitants and how this changed c...

The Works of Oskison and Posey

Various pieces of literature are explored, compared and contrasted. These are Native American works and beliefs are discussed as c...

Indian Captivity Narrative by Mary Rowlandson

In five pages this paper discusses how Mary Rowlandson's devout religious beliefs sustained her during her Native American captivi...

The Prairie Novel by James Fenimore Cooper and the Film Dances with Wolves

In five pages the depiction of Native Americans in the novel by James Fenimore Cooper and in the film by Kevin Costner is contrast...

U.S. Southwest and Cultural Influences of Mexico

In six pages this paper examines the cultural influences of these 2 border countries in an assessment of pros and cons with assimi...

Native American Spirituality and Lame Deer

In one page this paper examines spirituality as it pertains to Native Americans in a consideration of Lame Deer. One source is ci...

Language and Realism in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper discusses how dialect is used for the purposes of realism in this late 19th century American novel. Ther...

The World Turned Upside Down Edited by Colin Calloway

In a paper consisting of five pages an overview of the essay and document collection regarding Native American and colonial intera...

Fools Crow by James Welch

In five pages this research paper examines the Blackfeet Native American tribe of the 19th century as depicted in James Welch's no...

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Joy Jarjo

In five pages this Native American poetry collection and its consideration of isolation and individuality are analyzed. Three sou...

Individual, Society and the Social Adjustment of a 74 Year Old Mixed European and Cherokee Woman

In nine pages this paper presents an interview with an elderly woman of mixed Native American and European blood in a consideratio...

World View of Native Americans

In five pages this essay examines Native American conservatism and society in a discussion of various world view issues. There ar...

Heroic Native American Paul Bernal

In four pages this historical Native American hero is discussed as he is portrayed in [The] Taos Indians and the Battle for Blue L...

Sacred Land and the Taos Indian Struggles to Keep It

In six pages this paper examines the hardships the Taos Native Americans have endured regarding retention of their sacred land and...

Patriot Chiefs by Alvin Josephy

In five pages this text on the actual conflict between European settlers and the Native Americans is analyzd. There is no bibliog...

Bildingsroman Aspects of Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog

In seven pages this paper discusses the bildingsroman characteristics of Lakota Woman, which metaphorically depicts a Native Ameri...

Suicide and Native American Teens

In fifteen pages this paper examines suicide incidences among Native American teens that are living on reservations and also off o...

Health Care and Native Americans

In five pages this paper examines the health care of Native Americans and considers the impact of their cultural traditions. Six...