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at his door, he must not "send forth his death-dealing prayers" (Kamakau 120). Wealth that he can accept is when he uses his mag...

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

There are a number of theories that have been developed when considering second language acquisition, especially in the context of...

expected and takes places as part of the usual culture, as seen in areas such as Mallorca, where the dialect may be seen as very s...

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

by Tarone hypothesized, three different levels of English accuracy occurred when these situations were compared and contrasted. I...

Jimmy thinks back to his childhood. At any rate, it is a startling introduction to life as Jimmy and other Indians live it. It al...

its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...

means, in turn, there "are no Prisons, no Officers to compel Obedience, or inflict Punishment. Hence they generally study Oratory,...

(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...

effort in categorizing the tribes that populated the area and speculating as to their origin. He observed their subsistence patte...

inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...

of the jurisdiction of the courts with the passing of the Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory Act in 1985. This act made a declar...

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

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

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

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

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

one can take from this article is a one-sided story told from the point of view of the Native Americans. However, this...

non-Native culture, Zitkala was forced to leave her home and family at the young age of twelve. She was sent to a Quaker missiona...

believed that the Puritans were more organized, unified, visionary and disciplined certainly had not done a great deal of study of...

Attempts at integrating aborigines into the pastoral industry can be contended to be just one more component of the so-called "rac...

they ultimately became part of the majority as their facial features and skin color were not obviously different. But, with the Na...

different elements together to speak of ancient Aboriginal beliefs as well as a modern world. In As Long as the Rivers Flo...

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

faced. Foner explains that by the time the Savannah Colloquy would come around, slavery was already an institution3. He explains t...

Americans are in actuality much more oppressed by government regulations and society as a whole than they were in this earlier tim...

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

all realities and truths in a single work. In relationship to who this book is intended for one could well argue that...

that the Anglo Americans were superior to the Natives. They believed that they had the power, and the right, to take over land. Wi...