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Jerry Mander/The Indian Worldview

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

Beatrice C. Mosionier/In Search of April Raintree

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

Articles on Issues Pertaining to Canadian Aboriginal Peoples

who she was will be lost. His sources (cited in footnotes) include scholarly articles and books, and Carrs own journals. His met...

Plains Indians' Tipi

plains. Their mobile lifestyle necessitated mobile housing. The tipi was the result. Sometimes misspelled as "teepee", the tipi...

Questions on Readings

long for Nandas friend to marry her son. Nandas article points out mating customs and attitudes are culturally based. While Nanda...

Sociolinguistic Ethnography

In twenty pages sociolinguistic ethnography or the relationship between language and society are examined within the context of Cr...

The Challenges and Experiences of Aboriginal and Islander Tertiary Education Students

any hint of shame mixed in with the pride. In some way Higgins already felt different, otherwise she would not have felt this conf...

Canadian Aboriginal Youth and Suicide Among Canadian Aboriginal Youths: Rates, Causes, and Solutions

for suicide than other groups and these include prison inmates, persons with mental health disorders and Aboriginals. In19...

Strategic Plan for Dell

computer users - and therefore buyers - insist that they will not purchase another Dell computer unless and until Dell provides so...

India's Economy Analyzed

scientific advancements made by India concern their testing of nuclear bombs. This development has resulted in sanctions being iss...

American Indian Sovereignty

The indigenous peoples of the Americas have suffered long and hard since their juxtaposition of their cultures against those of th...

Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" - A Post-Colonial Criticism

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel". The harmful American charact...

American Indian College

Two American Indian scholars, David, Risling, Jr. and Dr. Jack Forbes wanted to establish D-Q University that was designed especia...

Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai

In eleven pages this research paper applies this Indian novel to Indian nationalism's historical development during the colonial e...

Spanish Theologian and Historian Bartolome de las Casas

In a paper consisting of 6 pages de las Casas' involvement in the Americas' Spanish colonization is examined along with his crusad...

Second World War, Colonialism, Muslims, and India

In twelve pages this paper discusses how the Second World War and the response of the Indian soldier influenced separatism and ind...

Kwakiutl Indians' Man Eating Bird 'Hokhokw' Mask

wings of the bird and during the ceremony, the dancers snap the beak closed with a loud clap (Kwakiutl Ceremonial Dance Mask, 2002...

Nineteenth Century 'War' of Tecumseh

to who Eckert has his characters refer to as "the tales of the old people" the meteor was "The Panther -- a powerful spirit passin...

Cherokee Indians' Mortuary Practices

which the Cherokee deal with the dead has, of course, changed considerably over time as well. While today Cherokee mortuary pract...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Black Elk Speaks to John Neihardt

In five pages John Neihardt's interview with Lakota Indian Black Elk who managed to survive the Wounded Knee massacre is examined ...

Art of Native America

In five pages the art of Native America is examined in an overview that includes the Pacific Northwest Indian art and pottery, wea...

"Indian Givers"

would be hard to take in everything at one sitting (Moyers, 2002). Weatherford claims there are literally no areas of modern civil...

Jane Tomkin/"Indians"

Indians, but rather how scholarship can lead an historian to this answer. What is her conclusion to this overriding issue? Over...

Thomas A. Bailey and the Trail of Tears

as noted above deserves some further expansion so that we know how to respond to it. When he discusses Baileys remarks, Peloso is ...

Differing Views on Native American Distinctions

the historical record to present well-documented evidence that Native Americans did indeed have not only an opinion but an express...

Plains Indians' Military Campaigns

that had hired on with the Calvary (Hoxie, 1995). These scouts were just a handful of the thirty-three scouts that were under Cus...

Ethnography Strengths and Weaknesses

of documents that combined to form one narrative (Genzuk, 1999). Ethnographic methods are used anytime structured observational r...

Qualitative Research and Ethnography

fact that there is a larger number of women than men in part-time jobs within an organisation might reflect personal choice on the...

Ethnography and Gender Influence

meal in Shaikh Musas home, rather than in his exterior "guest room," it constitutes a sign of acceptance into the social structure...