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Essays 211 - 240
tradition might be translated into a written format. Vizenors story is, on first appearance at least, a fantasy. Never-t...
that the Anglo Americans were superior to the Natives. They believed that they had the power, and the right, to take over land. Wi...
an exciting adventure yarn. The ships are blown away in a hurricane; horses are killed; and the Spanish miss Cuba and land in Flo...
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 ...
(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...
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...
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...
people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...
the federal money was also being used on boarding schools which were clearly not something that benefited the native people in any...
2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...
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. ...
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 a paper that consists of five pages the ways the Spanish perceived Native Americans in Latin America and the Caribbean are exam...
one ever identify with a people that took those lands and resources and essentially annihilated them? Past wrongs such as these h...
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...
during the summer of 2006, hidden in the walls of Lenas grandmothers house" (Meland, 2007). The spirit of Ezol begins to come to L...
white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...
serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...
of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...