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This paper pertains to Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe, who journeyed out of the wild where he had lived alone for 35 year...

This paper asks whether we have bastardized Native American language by appropriating it in sports and mass marketing. There are ...

This research paper address the manner in which American culture perceives post-menopausal women. The writer addresses this within...

This 5 page paper discusses how mainstream white culture has treated Native Americans as inferiors throughout much of our country'...

such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...

that the Anglo Americans were superior to the Natives. They believed that they had the power, and the right, to take over land. Wi...

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...

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

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...

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...

(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

reveals that "70% of Cuban Americans, 64% of Puerto Ricans, and 50% of Mexican Americans 25 years-of-age and over have graduated f...

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

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