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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...

involve the use of the four directions which some may say could be construed as a square but when ceremonies are being undertaken ...

in well-baby exams for this group is establishing a rapport with the mother, a rapport that will gain her trust and her compliance...

impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...

society has assigned this group is not that by which they prefer to be identified. The Navajo prefer to refer to themselves as th...

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...

(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...

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

inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

Jesus" (Blake, 1999, p. 20). Glicks idea is that the crucifix is too depressing as a symbol. He says, "Christ didnt come to earth ...

the directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...

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

culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native Americ...

became the first whites to actually see the valley (Ahwahnee, 2007). The Screeches encountered Pah Utes (Paiutes) camping in Hetch...

Although the Supreme Court decision in Seminole versus Florida went against the tribe, its our contention that the decision was wr...

There the Choctaw would ally themselves with the French and would have extensive warfare with the Chickasaw. The Creeks on the ot...

contact, for women typically remained at home when the men of tribe had contact with the Europeans who encroached ever closer into...

from Indian lands (Clark, 1999). The act has caused a great deal of controversy in the field of archaeology and has in many ways c...

that the Anglo Americans were superior to the Natives. They believed that they had the power, and the right, to take over land. Wi...

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

In a paper that consists of five pages the ways the Spanish perceived Native Americans in Latin America and the Caribbean are exam...

In seven pages this paper examines Silko's novel from a historical context in an analysis of what Ceremony reveals about the latte...

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

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

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....

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