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was regulated by his kinship system (Hudson 184). The kinship system provided sets of neat categories, categories for enemies, fo...

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

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

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

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

historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

this perspective the pow wow evolved in accordance with trade needs. Native peoples and those Europeans that had invaded their la...

notes, "Silko reveals that living in Laguna society as a mixed blood from a prominent family caused her a lot of pain. It meant b...

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

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

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

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

certain representatives European origin made their way to the Americas. The exact time of the earliest of these encounters is con...

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

has been noted, the question of precisely when Native Americans arrived in the Americas is surrounded more by speculation than it ...

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

be seen as lacking this soul. However, their lack of exposure to the great works and ideas also means that when they are exposed t...

critical reception and the issues and themes addressed in their work. Regionalism A principal thrust in this school was the conc...

of servitude that slaves adopted as indicative of their true feelings, rather than as a behavior adopted for self-protection. He s...

In five pages the cultural aspects of the potlatch are described and it is argued that it is less a redistribution system than it ...

In five pages the increased U.S. immigration and the changes upon the culture of native Americans are examined. One source is lis...

In "Sitting Bull and the Paradox of the Lakota Nationhood" author Gary Clayton Anderson details the contradictions which are inher...

the boundaries of their federal reservations without being regulated by state or local law. There have been several tests...

English who had come to steal corn and the result was that the English colony waited until 1613 before their leaders were sufficie...

It was also based on the Europeans ability to see Africans as a source for slave labor. Africans who were captured and shipped to ...

beginning. A blending of cultures is almost immediate in that even a culture which rises from the ashes of a decolonized nation is...

For example, strong hostility existed between Native Americans and the Spanish because the Spanish prohibited the Indians from pra...