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Leslie Marmon Silko

notes, "Silko reveals that living in Laguna society as a mixed blood from a prominent family caused her a lot of pain. It meant b...

Failed Approaches and Major Events Pertaining to White and Native American Interaction

chapters of the history of European domination in the so-called "New World" sometimes took slightly different directions. Such wa...

Sights and Culture of the Pow Wow

this perspective the pow wow evolved in accordance with trade needs. Native peoples and those Europeans that had invaded their la...

State of Israel Establishment

the states obligation to act justly and equally toward all citizens" (ACRI, 2002). Those Bedouins who chose to bypass the milita...

A Creek Indian Traditional Culture Introduction

Europeans and to observe that, while their culture has changed in some respects, they remain a distinctive cultural group even tod...

Interactions Between Native Americans and Early Europeans from Columbus to Cortez

came to yearn to sail to that land. He dubbed his plan to accomplish that goal the Enterprise of the Indies. He sought financial...

U.S. Immigration

poverty among immigrants who have been in the country less than ten years was 34.0 percent in 1994 and 22.4 percent in 2000; the r...

House of Dawn by Momaday

begins, it can be stated, with a desire for land, goods, resources, and strategic military operations. In a struggle of strong ver...

Nineteenth Century Racism and Native Americans

(through industrialization), rather than a place to keep pristine or clear. The problem was, in his treatise, Turner ignor...

Historic and Contemporary Prejudice Against Native Americans

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

Justice and Native Americans

This research paper/essay presents an argument that it would be morally and legally right for the federal government to return to ...

Battle of Little Bighorn

This essay looks at the battle of the Little Bighorn, which is famous as the location of Custer's defeat by Native Americans, and ...

Disrespect and Language The Appropriation of Native American Language and Culture

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

Degrading Native Americans The Santee Sioux and Ishi

This paper reveals one common factor in the way whites have perceived Native Americans through our interactions over time. Example...

Indian Boarding Schools Good or Bad?

This paper compares and contrasts the positives and negatives of nineteenth century boarding schools for Native Americans. There a...

Ishi, the Last of his Tribe

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...

Indian and European Interaction Patterns

There the Choctaw would ally themselves with the French and would have extensive warfare with the Chickasaw. The Creeks on the ot...

Kennewick Man Controversy and the NAGPRA

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...

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...

Federalism and Rights of Native Americans

Although the Supreme Court decision in Seminole versus Florida went against the tribe, its our contention that the decision was wr...

The Slave Mothers of Black Americans

slave Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated fr...

Analysis of Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

on the period of slavery in the United States. When one reads of the life of this chattel, he or she is forced to see the total i...

Slavery and Women

This paper examines such slave narratives as Annie L. Burton's The Narrative of Bethany Veney: A Slave Woman and Memories of Child...

American Colonies and Lives of Slaves

In nine pages this paper considers what slavery was like in the American colonies with North and South differences duly noted alo...

The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on the American Colonies

to develop a work force among Native Americans and white immigrants. Colonists, finding that Africans were cheap and relatively im...

Antebellum South's Women Slaves

Being put into a position of having to sexually service their master was the ultimate blow to a female slaves psyche. This...

Bearing Witness by George Lankford

to explore, authenticate and publish this documentation so that the society will become more aware of what happened during those d...

It’s Not Just Whites that are Responsible for Slavery

Slavery is one of the more abhorrent reflections of world societies. Contrary to common belief, the institution was not limited t...

Free States and Slave Development Between the American Revolution and the Civil War

North was not quite as conducive to farming. Although it is true that perhaps the South might have become more prone to industrial...

African American Education and Booker T. Washington

In six pages the role of Booker T. Washington as teacher to his African American people is discussed. Five sources are cited in t...