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Direct and Indirect Effects and Native American Water Rights

importance than some treaty provisions given the location of most Native American reservations in the arid West (Lewis, 2001). Wa...

Life of Native American Activist Leonard Peltier

the government chose to push Native Americans off their reservations and into urban settings (Anonymous, 2001). The resulting prot...

Native Americans and Their Socioeconomic and Political Roles

that "all these houses have very large and very good rooms and also very pleasant gardens of various sorts of flowers both on the ...

Native American Literature

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

Comparative Analysis of Cherokee and Appalachian Native American Cultures

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

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...

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...

Education and Native Americans

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

Native Americans as Perceived by English Colonists

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

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson and Plight of Native Americans

during the nineteenth century they had been regarded as little more than an obstacle in the American quest for land and its resour...

1775 to 1840 Legal Status of Native Americans and African Slaves

bequeathed to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 came much sooner" (Holt, 2002). In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance m...

Modern Native American Literature and Cultural Conflict

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

History, Literature, Knowledge, and Native Americans

always well-received by those who consider the humorous aspect out of place. Welchs (2003) approach when he crafted his account w...

Differing Views on Native American Distinctions

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

Native Americans and the Effects of Diabetes

The American Diabetes Association (2003) reports that individuals with diabetes are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease a...

Cultural and Political Autonomy Preservation Struggles of Native American Leaders

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

History Texts' Depiction of Native Americans

was not construed as legitimate. Today, that is far from the case. History is a valid and viable subject and one that is taught fr...

Interactions Between Native Americans and Early Europeans from Columbus to Cortez

came to yearn to sail to that land. He dubbed his plan to accomplish that goal the Enterprise of the Indies. He sought financial...

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...

Native American Short Story 'High Horse's Counting'

speaking with the man directly, or setting about to use his mind to figure out a logical answer, he resorts to unethical behavior....

Failed Approaches and Major Events Pertaining to White and Native American Interaction

chapters of the history of European domination in the so-called "New World" sometimes took slightly different directions. Such wa...

Southwest U.S. and Assimilation Pressures Placed Upon Hispanics and Native Americans

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

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

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

Sights and Culture of the Pow Wow

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

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...

Hopi People and Culture

the groups grabbed the largest ear of corn for themselves, but one leader remained until all the rest had chosen. He moved forward...

Predictions of Alexis de Tocqueville and the Survival of Native Americans

which Tocqueville noted between white and red, between savage and civilized, was an ever-present factor, in fact in the interactio...

Kennewick Man Controversy and the NAGPRA

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...

Federalism and Rights of Native Americans

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

Art and the Pottery of Pueblo Native Americans

clayware. While the fundamental basis of Pueblo pottery maintains much the same common denominator, there are enough pueblos that...