SEARCH RESULTS

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

People identify, after all, with people that are similar to them. Ebonics has the potential, therefore, to serve as a common link...

thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought ...

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

notes, "Silko reveals that living in Laguna society as a mixed blood from a prominent family caused her a lot of pain. It meant b...

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

not a detriment. Consider, for example, the Mississippi Choctaw. At least one anthropologists has termed the Mississippi Choctaw...

discussed in more detail below, it represents a phenomenal improvement in the way the parental and familial rights of Native Ameri...

(through industrialization), rather than a place to keep pristine or clear. The problem was, in his treatise, Turner ignor...

poverty among immigrants who have been in the country less than ten years was 34.0 percent in 1994 and 22.4 percent in 2000; the r...

came to yearn to sail to that land. He dubbed his plan to accomplish that goal the Enterprise of the Indies. He sought financial...

culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native Americ...

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...

the directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...

been a slave and not due to his celebrity status among abolitionists for having endured slavery. In order to fully appreciate th...

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...

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...

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

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

represent significant social power, as in the case of beauty, wealth and status, or they can symbolize aspects of society that peo...

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

means that while these organizations serve a public purpose of some sort, they also "meet the interests, needs and desires of the ...

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

the results. The author explains: " Remove those factors and researchers find that U.S. life expectancy continues to climb, but by...

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

Spanish-language rhetoric on the radio and in the cafes" (29). In addition to conveying the flavor of Latin-American life, Tobar ...