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Hawaiian Sorcery

at his door, he must not "send forth his death-dealing prayers" (Kamakau 120). Wealth that he can accept is when he uses his mag...

Silko/Setting in Ceremony

the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...

Mato Tilpali: Conflict in the Black Hills

Mato Tipila regularly as part of my religious observations, this is not only a political issue for me but also a personal issue. ...

Summary of “Listening in the Native and Second/Foreign Language: Toward an Integration of Research”

human understanding, theorists such as Aristotle and Saint Augustine also considered the same subject as did Hobbes and the Port R...

Variations in European and Native American Interactions

The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Literature of Black America

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

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...

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...

Southwest U.S. and Assimilation Pressures Placed Upon Hispanics and Native Americans

historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

Bigger Thomas in Native Son by Richard Wright

victim is a white girl who is sincerely trying to be his friend, to treat him as a fellow human being...Her mother, who is blind, ...

U.S. Muslim Families

precedent in relation to establishing official recognition of Islamic religious holidays in American schools. Two major Islamic h...

Richard Wright and Lorraine Hansberry's Styles of Writing

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts the styles of writing featured in Native Son, a novel by Richard Wright, and A Rais...

Oral Traditions of Native Americans

saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...

Comparative Analysis of European Americans and Native Americans

culture is quite different from mainstream culture in many aspects, on a daily basis. In this region of the country, for ex...

Beliefs of Hopi and Iroquois Native Americans

to stand in the way of colonial development for some time. In short, they were quite united and yet separate and as such are consi...

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 ...

Admission Essay

and customs to the University" and toward that end this year we held an information event on campus. The Embassies of Saudi Arabi...

Father Gabriel Sagard's The Long Journey to The Countries of the Huron Interpreted

which may indicate the natives side of the story. At the time of writing this, Sarard may be seen as a member of the colonial powe...

Salmon Farming in the United States

as a means of removing the pressure from: "wild fish stocks, while addressing the growing...

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...

Colonialism and the New Testament

Puritans saw themselves a turning away from a thousand years of established religious teaching so that the "truth" of the New Test...

Native Americans and the Effects of Diabetes

The American Diabetes Association (2003) reports that individuals with diabetes are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease a...

How Racism in the Criminal Justice System and Media is Reflected in Literature

In six pages this paper discusses how racism by the media and the criminal justice system is reflected in the novels Native Son, A...

Cultural and Political Autonomy Preservation Struggles of Native American Leaders

the Europeans who had invaded Native American lands. The English to whom we most often attribute the negativities of history in r...

History Texts' Depiction of Native Americans

was not construed as legitimate. Today, that is far from the case. History is a valid and viable subject and one that is taught fr...