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

faced. Foner explains that by the time the Savannah Colloquy would come around, slavery was already an institution3. He explains t...

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...

In five pages this historical text by Jill Lepore is analyzed in a consideration of how American identity was shaped by that long ...

Puritans saw themselves a turning away from a thousand years of established religious teaching so that the "truth" of the New Test...

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

for the Native Americans and they did this without a thought to their natural human rights. American historical facts supports thi...

the historical record to present well-documented evidence that Native Americans did indeed have not only an opinion but an express...

This 7 page paper compares Alexie's 1993 book with the Chris Eyre 1998 book that was inspired by the film and its representation o...

the Europeans who had invaded Native American lands. The English to whom we most often attribute the negativities of history in r...

take place at the fort (2005). The Shawnees did not accept the land which was set aside by the Fort McIntosh agreement ("Treaty...

took a vicious Civil War to legally end the "peculiar institution," although the South continued to pass such things as the Jim Cr...

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...

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

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...

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

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