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Columbus, Hero or Villain?

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

Native Americans and Hetch Hetchy Valley

became the first whites to actually see the valley (Ahwahnee, 2007). The Screeches encountered Pah Utes (Paiutes) camping in Hetch...

Native Americans: The Four Directions

the directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...

The Bennett Scale and Milton Gordon on Assimilation and Native Populations

culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native Americ...

Historical Reviews of Literature Featuring Native Americans, Black Women, and the Poor

one can take from this article is a one-sided story told from the point of view of the Native Americans. However, this...

Natural Function of Performance Appraisals

survival of the species, but the females of many species look with disdain on the losers of battle between the males. These femal...

Native American Perspectives on Ecology, Feminism, and Activism

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

The Evolution of Federal Native-American Policy

the tribes in Illinois had already signed treated which essentially given their land to the state. In light of this he pushed and ...

Native Americans as Perceived by Walt Whitman

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

Native American Issues

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

Western Settlement, Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, and the Expedition of Lewis and Clark

Lewis and Clark expedition would be on American soil right up to the point it crossed the Rocky Mountains (Fritz, 2001)....

Nineteenth Century Native Americans

the battle between the North and the South done, the future held some promise. But, that future could not exist if the Natives sti...

Equality Concept, Conflicting Ideology, and Thomas Jefferson

of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...

Film Entertainment and Native Americans

out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...

Communication of Native Americans

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

Native Americans and Government Policies and Treaties Between 1830 and 1890

such as European law. They were at an added disadvantage in that up until the arrival of the Europeans to this continent, Native ...

Overview of Indian Gaming

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

A Review of The Origins of Canadian Indian Policy

By that time the Indians were no longer valuable allies in the ongoing struggle for continental power, the importance of their con...

U.S. Economics and Native American Casinos

not a detriment. Consider, for example, the Mississippi Choctaw. At least one anthropologists has termed the Mississippi Choctaw...

What Would Have Happened in America if William Bradford Had Not Prevailed and Thomas Morton Had?

thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought ...

Native American Culture and Way of Life Decimation

intentionally changed, actions which were all believed justified under the predominant mindset of "manifest destiny". The rel...

Indian Child Welfare Act

discussed in more detail below, it represents a phenomenal improvement in the way the parental and familial rights of Native Ameri...

House of Dawn by Momaday

begins, it can be stated, with a desire for land, goods, resources, and strategic military operations. In a struggle of strong ver...

U.S. Immigration

poverty among immigrants who have been in the country less than ten years was 34.0 percent in 1994 and 22.4 percent in 2000; the r...

Nineteenth Century Racism and Native Americans

(through industrialization), rather than a place to keep pristine or clear. The problem was, in his treatise, Turner ignor...

State of Israel Establishment

the states obligation to act justly and equally toward all citizens" (ACRI, 2002). Those Bedouins who chose to bypass the milita...

The Long Shadow by Thomas Berger

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

AComparison of Religions Taoism, Native American, Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism

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

Viewing US History Differently

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

Spiritual Perspectives of Native American Author N. Scott Momaday

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