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among Indians has actually risen during ... the gaming boom" (Welker, 1997). There are more than 200 tribes with gaming establish...
survival of the species, but the females of many species look with disdain on the losers of battle between the males. These femal...
with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...
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...
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 ...
formed a Native American Heritage Commission to attempt to police the digs (Sacred Burial Grounds: The Controversy Continues, 1992...
Native American literature is interesting both in content and in the fact that it is a relatively recent phenomena. Native Americ...
has the lovely olive skin and dark thick glossy hair so apparent in her Kiowa people. Some of Pamelas in-laws, especially the old...
programs exist with the purpose of offering health-care services to this population specifically. Many more improvements have b...
the world tend to be heavily influenced by their methods of acquiring food, whether by hunting wild animals or by agriculture. Nat...
statement elsewhere, but, to the best of my recollection, there was never any serious attempt to turn Native Americans into a work...
followers of John Calvin (Readers Companion to American History, 1991). The Puritans would begin their influx to the Americas in ...
a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...
especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...
contains sufficient elements of the repulsive to also inspire some degree of disgust or horror....
the first tasks undertaken by Weatherford is to define the term "Native American" itself. Indeed, the term Native American is a c...
quite unique as well and has played a significant role in shaping various aspects of the culture. Three parallel belts of distinc...
however, which is present in all Native American Religions. That element is the integral tie between Native American spirituality...
native people for their own agendas toward cleaning up the earth. Those in the environmental movement dont seem to care about the ...
who occupied the planet. However, this noble policy was short-lived when the settlers moved their way into Cherokee region, event...
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...
contact, for women typically remained at home when the men of tribe had contact with the Europeans who encroached ever closer into...
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...
Although the Supreme Court decision in Seminole versus Florida went against the tribe, its our contention that the decision was wr...
(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...
doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...