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not a detriment. Consider, for example, the Mississippi Choctaw. At least one anthropologists has termed the Mississippi Choctaw...
out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...
of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...
such as European law. They were at an added disadvantage in that up until the arrival of the Europeans to this continent, Native ...
should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...
been painted by historians was simply untrue. Clearly, the Europeans took the land that belonged to the Indians. While few dispute...
among Indians has actually risen during ... the gaming boom" (Welker, 1997). There are more than 200 tribes with gaming establish...
By that time the Indians were no longer valuable allies in the ongoing struggle for continental power, the importance of their con...
Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...
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...
This paper examines art like a diversity of art to discern its impact on our culture. World War II's Rosie the Riveter is explore...
This essay looks at the battle of the Little Bighorn, which is famous as the location of Custer's defeat by Native Americans, and ...
This 5 page paper discusses how mainstream white culture has treated Native Americans as inferiors throughout much of our country'...
This paper reveals one common factor in the way whites have perceived Native Americans through our interactions over time. Example...
This paper compares and contrasts the positives and negatives of nineteenth century boarding schools for Native Americans. There a...
This paper pertains to Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe, who journeyed out of the wild where he had lived alone for 35 year...
This paper asks whether we have bastardized Native American language by appropriating it in sports and mass marketing. There are ...
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...
answered the magazines poll, who do not care. But, there are seemingly far more people who are greatly offended by such images....
contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...
is helpful to look at the traditional roots of Native American and Latino cultures. Traditionally, the women of Native American c...
A people that call themselves the Winnemen...
an invasion. This was not an unclaimed and unused continent. Indeed, indigenous peoples not only lived here but rightfully claim...
of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...
as being better than Native Americans in some way. The English and the American colonist neither understood Native culture nor did...
water for a significant percentage of these people. The dissolution of the nuclear family is another problem that should be mor...
ones who live in the woods" (Erdrich 87). June marries Maries son Gordie - one of her childhood tormentors - and enters, not surp...