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its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...
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...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
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...
new land. The Native Nations and people exist in a very different social, religious, and political world than much of the ...
involve the use of the four directions which some may say could be construed as a square but when ceremonies are being undertaken ...
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...
By that time the Indians were no longer valuable allies in the ongoing struggle for continental power, the importance of their con...
among Indians has actually risen during ... the gaming boom" (Welker, 1997). There are more than 200 tribes with gaming establish...
with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...
an exciting adventure yarn. The ships are blown away in a hurricane; horses are killed; and the Spanish miss Cuba and land in Flo...
Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...
the Native Americans undoubtedly traveled extensively in prehistoric times. Their reasons for this travel and their consequent ar...
developed, even barbaric (Ferro, 1997). This was true within the then US, there had been the perception of the Native Americans as...
the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...
Mato Tipila regularly as part of my religious observations, this is not only a political issue for me but also a personal issue. ...
2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...
the serious topics addressed. Above all, this is a story about a search for family. As Okinaway goes through life, he does seem t...
impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...
in well-baby exams for this group is establishing a rapport with the mother, a rapport that will gain her trust and her compliance...
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...
kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...
In seven pages this paper examines Silko's novel from a historical context in an analysis of what Ceremony reveals about the latte...
did improve British relations with Native Americans, the colonials were irate, as they saw the entire point of the French and Indi...