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The Origin of the First Americans

the Native Americans undoubtedly traveled extensively in prehistoric times. Their reasons for this travel and their consequent ar...

Symbolism and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

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

New World Communications

an exciting adventure yarn. The ships are blown away in a hurricane; horses are killed; and the Spanish miss Cuba and land in Flo...

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...

Paula G. Allen's Spider Woman's Granddaughters and Gordon Henry Jr.'s Light People

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

Tocqueville/His Views of Blacks

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

Compare and Contrast Beloved by Toni Morrison and Silko by Leslie Marmon Ceremony

This 10 page paper compares and contrasts the novel Beloved by African- American author Toni Morrison and Ceremony, by Native Amer...

The Destruction of Native Culture in Australia

of large differences in terms of culture. The view was one of superiority, with the predominantly white immigrants perceiving them...

Spanish And Mexican settlement: Colonizing California

THE FIGHT FOR CONTROL Spanish and Mexican settlement of California ended up the same as so many other colonization attempts...

Rowlandson & Dances With Wolves

read, she immediately attributes these events to the action of Providence. When her captors, which is a band of American Natives m...

Olesker's "Journeys To The Heart Of Baltimore"

world. This blending of such culture has been credited with bringing societies closer together and allowing people to understand ...

A Review of the William Cronan Book Changes in the Land

back to England for profit. The colonists approached New England from a capitalistic stance, a stance that included detai...

The Louisiana Native Guards by James G. Hollandsworth

As such there is not a great deal written on the African American experience and the story of the Louisiana Native Guards is one t...

The Literature of Black America

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

Jerry Mander/The Indian Worldview

of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...

Civilization and Progress

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

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...

U.S. Society and Race Relations

In five pages this paper examines 2 racism models and considers how race relations are featured in James W. Loewen's Lies My Teach...

The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) During Recent History

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

A Review of White Man's Indian

This six page essay explores the book by Robert Berkhofer, Jr. The writer emphasizes the diversity that characterizes Native Ameri...

Native Hawaiian Children and Bereavement Programs

child is becoming more socially aware and has a greater intellectual capacity, but still has problems regarding bereavement. This...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

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

African Americans' Involvement in the American Revolution

This essay uses research to discuss the experiences of African Americans who enlisted in the British army in order to obtain their...

Early 1900s' South to North African American Migration Compared with European Americans' Movement

laborers, domestic servants, families - all made the monumental decision to search out a better life. Regardless of the quest for ...

1st Generation Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...

Mexican American Communities and the Implications of Alcoholism

In eight pages this paper examines how the Mexican American community is affected by the social problem of alcoholism with compari...

The Business World from a Literary Viewpoint

pictured as giving them a chance to live as equals with everyone-no upper classes-everyone doing as he or she pleased. Sinclair...

Scott R. Sanders, The Common Life

ties to his community. Examination of Sanders points show that individualism is not the problem. Sanders begins his essay by des...

Barbara Novak/American 19th Century Art

"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...