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Essays 391 - 420
doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...
inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...
effort in categorizing the tribes that populated the area and speculating as to their origin. He observed their subsistence patte...
(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...
of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...
became the first whites to actually see the valley (Ahwahnee, 2007). The Screeches encountered Pah Utes (Paiutes) camping in Hetch...
culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native Americ...
the directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...
thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought ...
that the Anglo Americans were superior to the Natives. They believed that they had the power, and the right, to take over land. Wi...
"they opened up his [Native American] bowels. They tore the babes from their mothers breast and dashed their head against the roc...
they argue, man comes and chops, burns, uproots. Why should they care about the plight of man? This reflects the ongoing prob...
intentionally changed, actions which were all believed justified under the predominant mindset of "manifest destiny". The rel...
Americans are in actuality much more oppressed by government regulations and society as a whole than they were in this earlier tim...
serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...
2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...
the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...
Mato Tipila regularly as part of my religious observations, this is not only a political issue for me but also a personal issue. ...
The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...
By that time the Indians were no longer valuable allies in the ongoing struggle for continental power, the importance of their con...
among Indians has actually risen during ... the gaming boom" (Welker, 1997). There are more than 200 tribes with gaming establish...
with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...
an exciting adventure yarn. The ships are blown away in a hurricane; horses are killed; and the Spanish miss Cuba and land in Flo...
Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...
the Native Americans undoubtedly traveled extensively in prehistoric times. Their reasons for this travel and their consequent ar...
developed, even barbaric (Ferro, 1997). This was true within the then US, there had been the perception of the Native Americans as...
a demand for their services. The Native Americans that own these casinos and work in them benefit economically and socially as th...
he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...
Johnson (1999) specifically addresses the path of negotiations between the Kalapuya and the US government, recounting the Kalapuya...
people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...