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who occupied the planet. However, this noble policy was short-lived when the settlers moved their way into Cherokee region, event...

while in other ways in a project such as this, it could spell disaster, and very nearly did. When peoples lives are at stake such...

Native American literature is interesting both in content and in the fact that it is a relatively recent phenomena. Native Americ...

formed a Native American Heritage Commission to attempt to police the digs (Sacred Burial Grounds: The Controversy Continues, 1992...

has the lovely olive skin and dark thick glossy hair so apparent in her Kiowa people. Some of Pamelas in-laws, especially the old...

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

however, which is present in all Native American Religions. That element is the integral tie between Native American spirituality...

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...

Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...

statement elsewhere, but, to the best of my recollection, there was never any serious attempt to turn Native Americans into a work...

followers of John Calvin (Readers Companion to American History, 1991). The Puritans would begin their influx to the Americas in ...

Although the Supreme Court decision in Seminole versus Florida went against the tribe, its our contention that the decision was wr...

contact, for women typically remained at home when the men of tribe had contact with the Europeans who encroached ever closer into...

from Indian lands (Clark, 1999). The act has caused a great deal of controversy in the field of archaeology and has in many ways c...

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. ...

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

: Sources of Global History and Bulliet et als Earth and Its Peoples : A Global History Since 1750 are instrumental in illustratin...

contains sufficient elements of the repulsive to also inspire some degree of disgust or horror....

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

quite unique as well and has played a significant role in shaping various aspects of the culture. Three parallel belts of distinc...

native people for their own agendas toward cleaning up the earth. Those in the environmental movement dont seem to care about the ...

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

(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...

people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...

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

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

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

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