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So-called Primitive Sustainability as Compared to Our High Tech Version

Once the Plain's Indians forged their whole culture around the great buffalo herd. Today, modern culture forges ours around elect...

Andrew Jackson and Indian Removal

This essay discusses good and bad policies of the Andrew Jackson administration, and argues that the good are not enough to negate...

Mary Rowlandson's Narrative

This essay pertains to Mary Rowlandson's seventeenth century account of her capture by Indians. The writer discusses its contempor...

Creating International Academic Partnerships

This paper pertains to creating a partnership between an Indian university and an American institution of higher learning, with a ...

“How to Write the Great American Indian Novel” by Alexie

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...

Andrew Jackson and the Emergence of the Common Man

This paper considers the election of 1828, nullification, the Indian removal and the bank crisis. There is one source listed in t...

Musical Systems: Scales, Maqamat, and Ragas

This research paper offers a brief overview of scales, maqamat, and ragas, which derive from Western Arabic and Indian music respe...

American Education, Three Representations

This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...

Cultural Differences in an Acquisition

The writer looks at the problems faced by Indian firm Nicholas Piramal India Ltd (NPIL) when acquiring a western firm. The managem...

The Mystic Massacre

This essay pertains to the causes behind the massacre of Pequot indians that occurred at Mystic, Connecticut in 1637. Two pages in...

Hindu Gods Vishnu and Shiva in Art

In a paper consisting of five pages the symbolic significance of Vishnu and Shiva to Indian art is examined along with the artisti...

Ethnic Poetry of Tato Laviera and Chitra Divakaruni

all whistle as she seductively moves her hips. The lover-hero of the film dances in, lip syncing to a song, which is "a little off...

N. Scott Momaday, Sherman Alexie and Alienation

In five pages Alexie's Indian Killer and Momaday's House Made of Dawn are analyzed so as to compare and contrast how alienation le...

Analysis of The Guide by R.K. Narayan

attached to temple dancing that associated it with prostitution. Prior to his prison term, Raju was an actual guide, giving peop...

'Narrative of the Captivity & Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson' and the Puritan Covenant

In this six page paper Mary Rowlandson's relationship with God symbolizes the Puritan covenant and sustains her through her captur...

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and Reassimilation

In seven pages this paper examines Tayo's Indian community reassimilation in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony. There are no other s...

Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve

In six pages this paper discusses how the struggles of Indian women are reflected in this novel's female characterization. Eleven...

Ramanuja and Sankara Compared

In five pages two Indian Vedanta philosophical doctrines are examined in a comparative analysis. Six sources are cited in the bib...

Life and Man Viewed Across the Cultural Divide

Aristotle, Native Indian and Hindu philosophers had varying philosophies of life and the nature of man. This essay compares Aristo...

Christian Conversion of Mexico's Indians and the Popol Vuh

In ten pages this paper discusses the Christian conversion of the Indians of Mexico and the Popol Vuh's relevance. Eleven sources...

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...

Chapter One of Genesis and the Rig Veda Indian Creation Myth

In four pages this paper compares the creation myths found in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis and 'In the Beginning' of t...

Eastern and Western Mythology and Women

in the house" (Kamat women.htm). It is as though the very essence of a woman as a human being is given no consideration beyond th...

Survival of Native Americans and the Importance of Memory

In five pages this paper examines the importance of memory to the Native American cultural experience in a consideration of memory...

The Voyage of Cabeza de Vaca Three Themes Assessment

deceitful attack that ensued, the Spaniards had no other choice but to flee for their lives in makeshift boats. Only after forty-...

Proposition 5 in California

In five pages Proposition 5 which sought casino operation approval from the state of California is examined in terms of the ways i...

United States' Continuing Investment in India

In six pages this paper discusses the Indian resource investment by the United States and what India must do in terms of infrastru...

Comparing and Contrasting the Islands of the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean

The writer analyzes the environment, society and culture of the islands in two areas, the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. The pape...

European Settlers and the Impact of Indian Culture

In six pages this paper discusses the colonial cultural impact of the Aztec and Mayan Indians. Fifteen sources are cited in the b...