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Art and Music A Reflection of and an Impact to American Culture

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...

Culture and Disadvantage in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples

would usually be lag by approximately two years in terms of numeracy (QS A, 2003). The lower performance level has been attributed...

Facing East from Indian Country

history of the United States but are all too often not the focus of American history. While other authors seem to circumvent the r...

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

the way in which females, both girls and women, use their bodies as a means of protesting both the restrictions of patriarchy and ...

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich and June Kashpaw's Powerful Influence

ones who live in the woods" (Erdrich 87). June marries Maries son Gordie - one of her childhood tormentors - and enters, not surp...

Native American Culture and Way of Life Decimation

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

White Values versus Values of Native Americans

include any consideration of an alternate opinion to their worldview. They fully expected the Native Americans to accept that it w...

American Colonists, England, France, and Spain and Their Treatment of Native Americans

beginning. A blending of cultures is almost immediate in that even a culture which rises from the ashes of a decolonized nation is...

Leslie Marmon Silko

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...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

ESL is Better than Bilingual Education

(Bilingual/ESL, 2004). Carrasquillo and Rodriguez (1996) point out that mainstreaming LEP students is one of the most significan...

U.S. Economics and Native American Casinos

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

Indian Child Welfare Act

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

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

A Creek Indian Traditional Culture Introduction

Europeans and to observe that, while their culture has changed in some respects, they remain a distinctive cultural group even tod...

State of Israel Establishment

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

Colonialism

This essay/research paper, first of all, defines colonialism and discusses how it can be differentiated from imperialism. Then, t...

Trade Goods and Their Impacts

This paper points out that cultures can change in unexpected ways just because of our adoption of some seemingly harmless material...

Disrespect and Language The Appropriation of Native American Language and Culture

This paper asks whether we have bastardized Native American language by appropriating it in sports and mass marketing. There are ...

Ishi, the Last of his Tribe

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...

Degrading Native Americans The Santee Sioux and Ishi

This paper reveals one common factor in the way whites have perceived Native Americans through our interactions over time. Example...

Indian Boarding Schools Good or Bad?

This paper compares and contrasts the positives and negatives of nineteenth century boarding schools for Native Americans. There a...

Natural Function of Performance Appraisals

survival of the species, but the females of many species look with disdain on the losers of battle between the males. These femal...

1865 to 1896 Native American Policy of the United States

The non-Native culture epitomized in the fledgling U.S. was almost one-hundred percent different from Native American culture. Th...

Survival of Native Americans v. Europeans in the Colonial Americas

and those who consider the Native American as having an innate land ethic which allowed them to not only harvest enough from the l...

Red, White, and Black by Gary B. Nash

portrayed the Native Americans as reminiscent of the ancient civilization for Spartan, which was highly efficient and egalitarian....

Madagascar Wrestles with Conservation

renown for its rich biodiversity (Cockrem, 2003). "Eighty-five percent of the island nations plants and animals are found nowhere...

California Desert Species of Animals and Plants

acclimatization did not occur overnight, but rather over an extended period of time as the physiological composition of such plant...

Violence and How It Functions in the Writings of Richard Wright, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck

who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...

Religious Roles of Native American Women

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