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

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

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

they argue, man comes and chops, burns, uproots. Why should they care about the plight of man? This reflects the ongoing prob...

intentionally changed, actions which were all believed justified under the predominant mindset of "manifest destiny". The rel...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

the states obligation to act justly and equally toward all citizens" (ACRI, 2002). Those Bedouins who chose to bypass the milita...

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

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

past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...

kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

the Native Americans undoubtedly traveled extensively in prehistoric times. Their reasons for this travel and their consequent ar...

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