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

reveals that "70% of Cuban Americans, 64% of Puerto Ricans, and 50% of Mexican Americans 25 years-of-age and over have graduated f...

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...

Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

child is becoming more socially aware and has a greater intellectual capacity, but still has problems regarding bereavement. This...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

poverty among immigrants who have been in the country less than ten years was 34.0 percent in 1994 and 22.4 percent in 2000; the r...

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 ...

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...

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