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contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...
soldiers attacked a US patrol, and Taylor sent a message to Polk that read "Hostilities may be considered commenced" (Zinn 151). M...
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...
is helpful to look at the traditional roots of Native American and Latino cultures. Traditionally, the women of Native American c...
past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...
during the summer of 2006, hidden in the walls of Lenas grandmothers house" (Meland, 2007). The spirit of Ezol begins to come to L...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...
(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...
the bare necessities were sufficient in the beginning. In Morrisons text he shows examples of various forms of connecting logs tog...
2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...
The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...
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. ...
that the Anglo Americans were superior to the Natives. They believed that they had the power, and the right, to take over land. Wi...
doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...
the directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...
inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...
of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...
culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native Americ...
(Laughter Genealogy, 2008). Another region, Pennsylvania, saw an African American history that was essentially one of slav...
us against them mentality that usually enabled the President to secure public support for any military action presented as promoti...
as "submission to the new culture or changing to the old" (Li, 1993, p. 99). Instead, by working out the conflicts, "a new awarene...
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...
legislative body; an executive branch; and a judicial branch of government. Britain came to that change later than did the US, ho...
white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...
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...