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Comparative Analysis of Cherokee and Appalachian Native American Cultures

quite unique as well and has played a significant role in shaping various aspects of the culture. Three parallel belts of distinc...

The Long Shadow by Thomas Berger

native people for their own agendas toward cleaning up the earth. Those in the environmental movement dont seem to care about the ...

Native Americans as Perceived by English Colonists

followers of John Calvin (Readers Companion to American History, 1991). The Puritans would begin their influx to the Americas in ...

'She Had Some Horses' by Joy Harjo

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

Comparing a Child's Viewpoint from an Adult's in A Caribbean Childhood

To children, the game is a simplistic as is their perception of the world around them, which they view with innocence, truth and i...

Mexican Conquest

p. 59). Upon his arrival in the Yucatan Peninsula, Cortes and his group immediately skirmished with the Mayan Indians, who were o...

Civilization and Progress

Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...

Native American Literature

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

Smollett's Humphrey Clinker

contains sufficient elements of the repulsive to also inspire some degree of disgust or horror....

Jack Weatherford's Native Roots

the first tasks undertaken by Weatherford is to define the term "Native American" itself. Indeed, the term Native American is a c...

Direct and Indirect Effects and Native American Water Rights

importance than some treaty provisions given the location of most Native American reservations in the arid West (Lewis, 2001). Wa...

'The Dead' and James Joyce's Attack on Ireland

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

Native Americans and Their Socioeconomic and Political Roles

that "all these houses have very large and very good rooms and also very pleasant gardens of various sorts of flowers both on the ...

History and Culture of the Cherokee

was regulated by his kinship system (Hudson 184). The kinship system provided sets of neat categories, categories for enemies, fo...

Plants That Are Non Native and Invasive

is nothing wrong, per se, with a particular plant . . .until it threatens the plants that are supposed to be in a particular area ...

When the Coke was in Coca Cola

The history of the coca plant, Erythroxylum coca, is discussed in this paper, including its cultivation in Peru, Colombia and Boli...

John Demos' The Unredeemed Captive and Intercultural Relationships

In ten pages this paper examines intercultural relationships as featured in the text's portrayal of early 18th century Native Amer...

Symbolism and Theme in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native

supreme being. This attribution was fatalistic in that it meant that there was little hope for mankind overall, however. Man was...

Momaday and Alexie: Variations in the Ways Native American Authors Depict Their Culture

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

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

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

Thomas King/Medicine River and Canadian Literature

the bearer of Native Canadian culture. For example, the novel opens with Harlen inviting Will to lunch at 10 a.m. and talking abou...

Summary and Questions on the Last Three Chapters of Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker

politicians ordeal. Henrys feelings of loneliness and isolation are revealed in a type of flashback manner that links the social ...

The Truth About Stories by Thomas King

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

The Myths of Westward Expansion

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

The Accuracy of American History Books

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

Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

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

Critical Period Hypothesis - Second Language Acquisition

knowledge and skill in a different way? The critical period hypothesis regarding acquiring a second language is not new. This hyp...

An American Genocide

Western expansion. This expansion was regarded by White Americans as Manifest Destiny, while Native Americans viewed it, and right...

Metacom of the Wampanoag: Changing Perceptions Over Time

predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

The Evolution of the Americas

has been noted, the question of precisely when Native Americans arrived in the Americas is surrounded more by speculation than it ...