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An American Genocide

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

Early American History Law Contradictions

independence brought the final break with Britain (Holton, 2000). Further, it was the refusal of these same individuals to joint t...

Oral Traditions of Native Americans

saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...

Comparative Analysis of Chinese American, Black American, and Native American Experiences

This paper consists of five pages and contrasts and compares the socioeconomic, historical, and ideological factors associated wit...

Post Revolutionary American and the Roles Played by Native Americans and African Americans

extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...

Sights and Culture of the Pow Wow

this perspective the pow wow evolved in accordance with trade needs. Native peoples and those Europeans that had invaded their la...

Concerns of Modern Native Americans

In six pages dilemmas that are presently facing Native Americans are the focus of this discussion. Six sources are cited in the b...

Film Adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans

accusations, which effectively illustrates the films irony. Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe and Steven Waddington play th...

U.S. History from 1960 to the Present Time

a long way. It is difficult to be entirely objective, when one remembers the Rodney King beating or the OJ trial. According to D...

West, Cherokees, and Andrew Jackson

In four pages this research paper examines what many consider the American version of the Holocaust, the 'Trail of Tears' imposed ...

Student Submitted American History Questions

In five pages this paper considers three questions supplied by a student that include the popular Native American savage concept i...

America's Sexism and Racism History

In an essay consisting of five pages the historical origins of sexism and racism in the Americas is traced through the Native Amer...

U.S. History, Native Americans, and Immigrants

In eight pages this paper examines American history with an emphasis upon the significant role of immigrants, struggles of the Nat...

1786's Fort Finney Treaty

take place at the fort (2005). The Shawnees did not accept the land which was set aside by the Fort McIntosh agreement ("Treaty...

Overview of African American and Native American Ideologies and Globalization

took a vicious Civil War to legally end the "peculiar institution," although the South continued to pass such things as the Jim Cr...

Northwest China's Unique Hui Muslim Culture

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares the Chinese Hui Muslims with the US Native American and African American cultures...

Minority Groups and Education

In twenty five pages this paper considers how minority groups especially Native Americans and African Americans have been denied a...

Colonialism

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

Southwest U.S. and Assimilation Pressures Placed Upon Hispanics and Native Americans

historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

The Literature of Black America

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

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...

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 ...

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...

Colonialism and the New Testament

Puritans saw themselves a turning away from a thousand years of established religious teaching so that the "truth" of the New Test...

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 ...

King Philip's War by Jill Lepore

In five pages this historical text by Jill Lepore is analyzed in a consideration of how American identity was shaped by that long ...

The Poor Treatment of the American History

for the Native Americans and they did this without a thought to their natural human rights. American historical facts supports thi...

Franklin, Emerson and Whitman

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