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

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...

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...

2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...

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

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

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

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

out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...

such as European law. They were at an added disadvantage in that up until the arrival of the Europeans to this continent, Native ...

been painted by historians was simply untrue. Clearly, the Europeans took the land that belonged to the Indians. While few dispute...

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

the same but instead of dealing with a European based government or government, Native Americans would have an almost omnipotent g...

the battle between the North and the South done, the future held some promise. But, that future could not exist if the Natives sti...

Lewis and Clark expedition would be on American soil right up to the point it crossed the Rocky Mountains (Fritz, 2001)....

the tribes in Illinois had already signed treated which essentially given their land to the state. In light of this he pushed and ...

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

"they opened up his [Native American] bowels. They tore the babes from their mothers breast and dashed their head against the roc...

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

now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...

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

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

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 ...

of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...

By that time the Indians were no longer valuable allies in the ongoing struggle for continental power, the importance of their con...

among Indians has actually risen during ... the gaming boom" (Welker, 1997). There are more than 200 tribes with gaming establish...

with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...

an exciting adventure yarn. The ships are blown away in a hurricane; horses are killed; and the Spanish miss Cuba and land in Flo...

a demand for their services. The Native Americans that own these casinos and work in them benefit economically and socially as th...