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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...

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...

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich and June Kashpaw's Powerful Influence

ones who live in the woods" (Erdrich 87). June marries Maries son Gordie - one of her childhood tormentors - and enters, not surp...

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...

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...

The Myths of Westward Expansion

that the Anglo Americans were superior to the Natives. They believed that they had the power, and the right, to take over land. Wi...

Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

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

Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States

past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...

Joy Harjo and the Dawn Butterflies

a poem. It is a series of these paragraphs, each building on the previous one until the reader can form a picture of what has happ...

Native American Images as Mascots

answered the magazines poll, who do not care. But, there are seemingly far more people who are greatly offended by such images....

Nineteenth Century New France

an invasion. This was not an unclaimed and unused continent. Indeed, indigenous peoples not only lived here but rightfully claim...

Sherman Alexie’s Integration

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

Critical Analysis of Fraser River's Descent

while in other ways in a project such as this, it could spell disaster, and very nearly did. When peoples lives are at stake such...

Culture and Science Conflict

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

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...

Societal Impact of 'The Trail of Tears'

who occupied the planet. However, this noble policy was short-lived when the settlers moved their way into Cherokee region, event...

Native American Students' Acquisition of Language and Reading Level and the Effects of Culture and History

In five pages this paper discusses how various cultural and historical factors impact the acquisition of language and reading unde...

Process of Making Treaties and the Involvement of Native Americans

In seven pages this paper assesses the Native American involvement in the treaty drafting and implementation processes. Five sour...

'She Had Some Horses' by Joy Harjo

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

Multicultural Person and Sociology

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

Religious Roles of Native American Women

contact, for women typically remained at home when the men of tribe had contact with the Europeans who encroached ever closer into...

'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven' and 'Smoke Signals'

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...

1 Stage in Erik Erikson's Childhood and Society

stage of human development takes place from the moment of birth to about 1, perhaps all the way to 2, years of age. It is called t...

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...

Indian and European Interaction Patterns

There the Choctaw would ally themselves with the French and would have extensive warfare with the Chickasaw. The Creeks on the ot...

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...

Evolution of the Native American Game of Stickball

In eleven pages this paper discusses how Native American stickball evolved into its current lacrosse incarnation and how this is r...