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Leslie Marmon Silko

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...

U.S. Economics and Native American Casinos

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

Indian Child Welfare Act

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

Native American Past and Present Historical Issues

diseases such as smallpox, malaria, measles, cholera, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, whooping cough, mumps, influenza and typhoid fe...

1887's Dawes Act

In three pages this paper discusses the 1887 to 1934 U.S. General Allotment or Dawes Act and its impact upon Native Americans and ...

Native American Identity Struggles in Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In seven pages these novels are compared in terms of how each features the Native American identity struggle with similarities and...

Native Americans and Suicide

In five pages this paper discusses Native American suicide rates and the reasons for their high incidences. Nine sources are cite...

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson and Native American Responses to Whites

In five pages this paper considers the Native American responses to Anglos as depicted in the 1884 text in a discussion of whether...

Cultural Considerations of Native American Reservations' Casino Gambling

In a paper consisting of fourteen pages this issue is first presented in an overview and then a thesis that the Native American re...

Native American Images as Mascots

answered the magazines poll, who do not care. But, there are seemingly far more people who are greatly offended by such images....

Native American Baby Wellness Checkups

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

Nineteenth Century New France

an invasion. This was not an unclaimed and unused continent. Indeed, indigenous peoples not only lived here but rightfully claim...

Sherman Alexie’s Integration

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

Key Events in Colonial and Native Interactions

as being better than Native Americans in some way. The English and the American colonist neither understood Native culture nor did...

Addressing the Problem of Native American Suicide

water for a significant percentage of these people. The dissolution of the nuclear family is another problem that should be mor...

Restorative Justice and Traditional Cultures

The concept of restorative justice is something that is intriguing people from all...

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich and June Kashpaw's Powerful Influence

ones who live in the woods" (Erdrich 87). June marries Maries son Gordie - one of her childhood tormentors - and enters, not surp...

Ben Franklin and the Definition of the American Dream

In a paper that consists of seven pages the American Dream is considered within the context of Benjamin Franklin's early life and ...

African American Studies: Definition

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade by effectively i...

Definition of an American and Homelessness

91). The first threatening wave of homelessness swept America between the years 1820 and 1860, when more than five million immigr...

The Years 1865 to 1930 and the Definition of 'American'

In five pages this paper discusses being an American during this time period according to cultural and ethnic groups' definition o...

African American Community Definition and Creation

thirty days, from seven ! I just hope that I am still here when we celebrate "Black History Quarter." This speech has been de...

Review of the Native American Novel The Light People

the serious topics addressed. Above all, this is a story about a search for family. As Okinaway goes through life, he does seem t...

Native Americans and the Effects of European Diseases

In ten pages this paper examines America's indigenous population and the impact of the disease the European colonists introduced t...

Rainbow Importance in the Native American Poem 'The Vision'

to Literature. 11th ed. Eds. Barnet, Sylvan, et al. New York: Longman, 1997. 723-724. RESEARCH OWNED & PUBLISHED GLOBALLY BY THE P...

Storytelling in Two Native American Novels

Jimmy thinks back to his childhood. At any rate, it is a startling introduction to life as Jimmy and other Indians live it. It al...

European Land Abuse and Land Ethics of Native Americans

In eighteen pages this paper contrasts the environmental approaches of these two very distinct cultures as the ethical perspective...

Problems Facing Native American Nations

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

"Native Son" And American History X" - Dual Racial Intolerance

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