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Myth and Its Importance in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In four pages this paper examines the importance of Native American heritage and the protagonist's desire to reconnect in the nove...

Future Lessons in the Past Story of Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

since the first European stepped foot on Native soil. Since its "discovery", most often credited to Columbus in 1492, to the curr...

Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan

In five pages this Native American text is analyzed in terms of content, meaning, and gender relationships. There are no other so...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Native American Education Problems

In seven pages this paper discusses U.S. education of Native Americans and the problems associated with it. Eight sources are cit...

Pottery of the Mimbres Indians of North America

In ten pages this essay considers this ancient Native American tribe's lovely pottery. There are 6 sources cited in the bibliogra...

Art and the Reflection of Native American

In five pages the Pueblo is the primary emphasis of this consideration of how cultured is mirrored in the art of Native Americans....

Culture and the Mortuary Practices of Native Americans

In thirty pages this paper discusses the cultural importance of Native American mortuary practices and burial rituals. Sixteen so...

Festive and Ceremonial Attire of Native Americans

In nine pages this paper examines the clothing styles of Native Americans in a consideration of cultural influence and the primary...

Creek and Cherokee Tribes and Traditional Southeastern Dance Decline

In six pages this paper examines the reasons why traditional Southeastern Native American dances like the stomp dance have decline...

Native American Culture and Totem Poles

might be suggested by valued animal faces. The most important aspect of totem poles utilized to demonstrate lineage is that the...

Pacific Ocean and Totem Poles

and a change in the way of life occurred for the Indians. As a result, the ocean became the center of their way of life (Garbarino...

Sacred Pipe of Native Americans, Ritual, and Repatriation

In ten pages this paper discusses the Sacred Pipe of Native American cultures particularly the Lakota Sioux in a consideration of ...

Early Culture of West Africa

This paper compares the Native American culture with the culture of West Africa in an overview of sculpture, dance, music, poetry,...

Indigenous Women's Roles

In five pages this research paper examines the social roles of women in Native American indigenous cultures. Three sources are ci...

Indian Captivity Narrative by Mary Rowlandson

In five pages this paper discusses how Mary Rowlandson's devout religious beliefs sustained her during her Native American captivi...

The Prairie Novel by James Fenimore Cooper and the Film Dances with Wolves

In five pages the depiction of Native Americans in the novel by James Fenimore Cooper and in the film by Kevin Costner is contrast...

Professional Service Provider Considerations Regarding Native American Culture

In eight pages this paper examines what professional service providers need to be culturally aware of when dealing with clients wh...

Native American Spirituality and Lame Deer

In one page this paper examines spirituality as it pertains to Native Americans in a consideration of Lame Deer. One source is ci...

Native American Culture Changes

In six pages the arrival of the Europeans to the continent and the changes that resulted in Native American cultures are examined....

Application of Economic Anthropology

In six pages patterns of subsistence that existed among the European colonists and the Native Americans are subjected to an econom...