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In five pages this paper discusses food and a funeral ritual as cultural components. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

In eight pages this research paper briefly covers the history of Chinese American families U.S. relocation, current prejudices, cu...

crisis of Lester Burnham, a subplot provides a telling commentary on way that homosexuality has been perceived in this culture. Th...

In five pages the African American community is considered in terms of the incidences of child abuse in other cultural comparisons...

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

However, as Lauter (2004) points out, Crevecoeurs perspective that all nations were represented and that these were being transfor...

wonders now what prompted him to be so superficial, stupid and shallow. Therefore, this wide-ranging documentary is his quest to f...

cultural artifacts. Many have contended since the original "discovery" of this country that Native American spirituality is...

the grip of failure. Students with limited English speaking skills are routinely challenged to understand the very basics of less...

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

(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...

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

2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...

The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...

Mato Tipila regularly as part of my religious observations, this is not only a political issue for me but also a personal issue. ...

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

impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...

society has assigned this group is not that by which they prefer to be identified. The Navajo prefer to refer to themselves as th...

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

to stand in the way of colonial development for some time. In short, they were quite united and yet separate and as such are consi...

a demand for their services. The Native Americans that own these casinos and work in them benefit economically and socially as th...

he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...

Johnson (1999) specifically addresses the path of negotiations between the Kalapuya and the US government, recounting the Kalapuya...

people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...

(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...

reveals that "70% of Cuban Americans, 64% of Puerto Ricans, and 50% of Mexican Americans 25 years-of-age and over have graduated f...

involve the use of the four directions which some may say could be construed as a square but when ceremonies are being undertaken ...

in well-baby exams for this group is establishing a rapport with the mother, a rapport that will gain her trust and her compliance...

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...