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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...

Art and Music A Reflection of and an Impact to American Culture

This paper examines art like a diversity of art to discern its impact on our culture. World War II's Rosie the Riveter is explore...

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...

Restorative Justice and Traditional Cultures

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

Corn Woman and Brave Wolf

kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...

Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

Joy Harjo and the Dawn Butterflies

a poem. It is a series of these paragraphs, each building on the previous one until the reader can form a picture of what has happ...

Women's Roles in Latin America vs. Native America

is helpful to look at the traditional roots of Native American and Latino cultures. Traditionally, the women of Native American c...

Native Americans in Spain as Beings or an Obstacle?

In a paper that consists of five pages the ways the Spanish perceived Native Americans in Latin America and the Caribbean are exam...

Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States

past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...

Relying Upon Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko as a Historical Source

In seven pages this paper examines Silko's novel from a historical context in an analysis of what Ceremony reveals about the latte...

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...

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...

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...

The Material Culture of Slaves in Early America

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

The Importance of Baseball to the “Miko Kings”

during the summer of 2006, hidden in the walls of Lenas grandmothers house" (Meland, 2007). The spirit of Ezol begins to come to L...

Comparison of Second World War Jewish Genocide and Extermination of Native Americans

In five pages this paper defines genocide and then examines it in a comparison of practices against Native Americans and Jews with...

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Colonization and Effects on Native Americans

In four pages this paper contrasts sixteenth and seventeenth colonization of Portugal and Spain as opposed to Holland, England, an...

The Founding of Virginia, Captain John Smith, and the American Genesis

In four pages this paper focuses upon Alden T. Vaughn's text and analyzes the depiction of Native Americans, Captain John Smith, a...

Assimilation and Conflict in the Western Settlement

a progression of Indian emigration into the central plains and western regions of the country, based not only the movement of whit...

A Neutral Look at the Battle at Little Big Horn

This six page report analyzes this historical masacre from an objective perspective. The author carefully interweaves the perspec...

General George Custer and How He was Viewed by Native Americans

In eight pages this paper examines how Custer was perceived by Native Americans with an analysis of the battle of Little Big Horn....

Native American Plight in The Long Death by Ralph Andrist

In eight pages this paper discusses how the U.S. military defeated the Native Americans during the nineteenth century within the c...

Ancestral Georgia Lands of the Cherokee

In five pages this paper considers Native American land rights in a consideration of the U.S. government forcibly removing the Geo...

Historical Views on Native Americans

In twelve pages this paper examines the policies and views of such individuals as Frederick W. Turner, Captain John Smith, and And...

Christopher Columbus's Views of Native Americans

In three pages this paper examines Columbus's perspectives of Native Americans and the indigenous genocide that resulted from his ...

Doomed Native America

In five pages this paper examines how the relationship between Native Americans and Europeans was doomed from the beginning in a c...

Social Structure and Religion of Native Americans

In five pages this paper examines the social structure of Native Americans and how it influences their spirituality and religious ...

A Review of White Man's Indian

This six page essay explores the book by Robert Berkhofer, Jr. The writer emphasizes the diversity that characterizes Native Ameri...