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Paula G. Allen's Spider Woman's Granddaughters and Gordon Henry Jr.'s Light People

impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...

Native American Ceremony and the Importance of the Circle

involve the use of the four directions which some may say could be construed as a square but when ceremonies are being undertaken ...

Native American Baby Wellness Checkups

in well-baby exams for this group is establishing a rapport with the mother, a rapport that will gain her trust and her compliance...

Beliefs of Hopi and Iroquois Native Americans

to stand in the way of colonial development for some time. In short, they were quite united and yet separate and as such are consi...

Oral Traditions of Native Americans

saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...

New World Communications

an exciting adventure yarn. The ships are blown away in a hurricane; horses are killed; and the Spanish miss Cuba and land in Flo...

Symbolism and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...

The Origin of the First Americans

the Native Americans undoubtedly traveled extensively in prehistoric times. Their reasons for this travel and their consequent ar...

Sociological Concepts Applied to a Navajo Identity Description

Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...

Viejas and Morongo Tribal Cultural and Economic Transformations

a demand for their services. The Native Americans that own these casinos and work in them benefit economically and socially as th...

'What You Pawn I Will Redeem' by Sherman Alexie

he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...

Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest

Johnson (1999) specifically addresses the path of negotiations between the Kalapuya and the US government, recounting the Kalapuya...

Native Americans and End of Life Issues

people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...

Fools Crow by James Welch Questions Answered

(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...

'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...

New World Dominance of Europe

been painted by historians was simply untrue. Clearly, the Europeans took the land that belonged to the Indians. While few dispute...

Native Americans and Government Policies and Treaties Between 1830 and 1890

such as European law. They were at an added disadvantage in that up until the arrival of the Europeans to this continent, Native ...

Overview of Indian Gaming

among Indians has actually risen during ... the gaming boom" (Welker, 1997). There are more than 200 tribes with gaming establish...

A Review of The Origins of Canadian Indian Policy

By that time the Indians were no longer valuable allies in the ongoing struggle for continental power, the importance of their con...

Equality Concept, Conflicting Ideology, and Thomas Jefferson

of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...

Communication of Native Americans

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

Film Entertainment and Native Americans

out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...

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...

The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) During Recent History

: Sources of Global History and Bulliet et als Earth and Its Peoples : A Global History Since 1750 are instrumental in illustratin...

Smollett's Humphrey Clinker

contains sufficient elements of the repulsive to also inspire some degree of disgust or horror....

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...

Natural Function of Performance Appraisals

survival of the species, but the females of many species look with disdain on the losers of battle between the males. These femal...

1865 to 1896 Native American Policy of the United States

The non-Native culture epitomized in the fledgling U.S. was almost one-hundred percent different from Native American culture. Th...

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...

Historical Reviews of Literature Featuring Native Americans, Black Women, and the Poor

one can take from this article is a one-sided story told from the point of view of the Native Americans. However, this...