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the federal money was also being used on boarding schools which were clearly not something that benefited the native people in any...

tradition might be translated into a written format. Vizenors story is, on first appearance at least, a fantasy. Never-t...

any people, they had some confrontations with other groups, these confrontations were relatively small scale and of little overall...

indication of just how racial intolerance has guided history. Wrights (1987) "popular and perennial African-American characters" ...

This essay offers a comparison between Sherman Alexie's "The Trial of Thomas Builds-The-Fire" and "Turtle Lake" by Gloria Bird. Th...

many of the same factors that Wright presented in the life of Bigger. Baldwin writes, for example, that he himself is a product o...

The Sand Creek Massacre is among the worst atrocities that have ever occurred in our countrys history. The Sand Creek Massacre ca...

variety of dialects (1999). Algonquian-speaking peoples have dominated most of the northeastern North America (1999). Also confus...

which Tocqueville noted between white and red, between savage and civilized, was an ever-present factor, in fact in the interactio...

home, Matthew normally lives one year with his mother and the following year with his father. This introduces a number of complex...

into contact with. The Choctaw Indian Nation has a history which predates the earliest Spanish explorers to America. Many of the...

speaking with the man directly, or setting about to use his mind to figure out a logical answer, he resorts to unethical behavior....

belly pulsed with fear...and the rat emitted a long thin song of defiance, its black beady eyes glittering" (Wright, 10). ...

example, that shaped the tribal communities and their emphasis on sharing resources as a primary value (Larson). The land was far ...

bequeathed to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 came much sooner" (Holt, 2002). In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance m...

discovered that trying to collect information exclusively from indigenous persons left her the object of suspicion as some indigen...

did improve British relations with Native Americans, the colonials were irate, as they saw the entire point of the French and Indi...

Rush held others to the same standard. All the time she maintained optimism and worked constructively responding as the need dict...

Although many Native American communities are admittedly moving away from their traditional ideological frameworks, their traditio...

adjusted payment that Congress had authorized was delivered immediately (Mickey Z, 2008). Those that were owed more, however, wer...

This difference resulted in friction between the peoples of this new nation (and in particular its government) and the Native Amer...

(Ray, 2000). Upon initial investigation, Ray had found that most references to Indian involvement in the fur trade were of "shadow...

the continued existence of racism also has an effect on the African Americans, and this effect is to make them highly aware of rac...

Bureau, 2005). The 2000 census reflects an unemployed rate of 6.1% out of the overall civilian workforce of 656,539 people. Occu...

own way and to obtain contentment without the infringement of government or any other oppressive source, Jefferson ultimately acco...

political landscape is carved from the mindset of masculinity, a reality that has historically marginalized the female gender due ...

those in power. This was very valuable foresight on the founders part inasmuch as it did protect the fundamental patchwork of how...

have long been "possessed" by adventurers, as this act would eternalize "the memory of those that effected it" (Smith). As this su...

head of the largest Anti-Michael Moore website announced that he had to delete the website because his wife had cancer and the ins...

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...