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Essays 211 - 240
A people that call themselves the Winnemen...
water for a significant percentage of these people. The dissolution of the nuclear family is another problem that should be mor...
of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...
answered the magazines poll, who do not care. But, there are seemingly far more people who are greatly offended by such images....
past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...
is helpful to look at the traditional roots of Native American and Latino cultures. Traditionally, the women of Native American c...
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...
kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...
contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...
The concept of restorative justice is something that is intriguing people from all...
ones who live in the woods" (Erdrich 87). June marries Maries son Gordie - one of her childhood tormentors - and enters, not surp...
(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...
effort in categorizing the tribes that populated the area and speculating as to their origin. He observed their subsistence patte...
inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...
the directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...
doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...
its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...
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...
that the Anglo Americans were superior to the Natives. They believed that they had the power, and the right, to take over land. Wi...
serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...
Americans are in actuality much more oppressed by government regulations and society as a whole than they were in this earlier tim...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...
2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...
Mato Tipila regularly as part of my religious observations, this is not only a political issue for me but also a personal issue. ...
the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...
means that while these organizations serve a public purpose of some sort, they also "meet the interests, needs and desires of the ...
This author notes that, "The church fought against the social injustices that African Americans faced in America," which is clearl...