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the world tend to be heavily influenced by their methods of acquiring food, whether by hunting wild animals or by agriculture. Nat...

programs exist with the purpose of offering health-care services to this population specifically. Many more improvements have b...

The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...

the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...

its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...

a land in which the wealthy were very wealthy, the poor were exceedingly so. Michael seemed to believe he was in training t...

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...

Mato Tipila regularly as part of my religious observations, this is not only a political issue for me but also a personal issue. ...

society has assigned this group is not that by which they prefer to be identified. The Navajo prefer to refer to themselves as th...

involve the use of the four directions which some may say could be construed as a square but when ceremonies are being undertaken ...

impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...

a demand for their services. The Native Americans that own these casinos and work in them benefit economically and socially as th...

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...

with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...

among Indians has actually risen during ... the gaming boom" (Welker, 1997). There are more than 200 tribes with gaming establish...

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

reveals that "70% of Cuban Americans, 64% of Puerto Ricans, and 50% of Mexican Americans 25 years-of-age and over have graduated f...

Johnson (1999) specifically addresses the path of negotiations between the Kalapuya and the US government, recounting the Kalapuya...

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...

they argue, man comes and chops, burns, uproots. Why should they care about the plight of man? This reflects the ongoing prob...

"they opened up his [Native American] bowels. They tore the babes from their mothers breast and dashed their head against the roc...

now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...

the same but instead of dealing with a European based government or government, Native Americans would have an almost omnipotent g...