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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...
one can take from this article is a one-sided story told from the point of view of the Native Americans. However, this...
non-Native culture, Zitkala was forced to leave her home and family at the young age of twelve. She was sent to a Quaker missiona...
The non-Native culture epitomized in the fledgling U.S. was almost one-hundred percent different from Native American culture. Th...
survival of the species, but the females of many species look with disdain on the losers of battle between the males. These femal...
quite unique as well and has played a significant role in shaping various aspects of the culture. Three parallel belts of distinc...
native people for their own agendas toward cleaning up the earth. Those in the environmental movement dont seem to care about the ...
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 ...
programs exist with the purpose of offering health-care services to this population specifically. Many more improvements have b...
especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...
the first tasks undertaken by Weatherford is to define the term "Native American" itself. Indeed, the term Native American is a c...
Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...
a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...
has the lovely olive skin and dark thick glossy hair so apparent in her Kiowa people. Some of Pamelas in-laws, especially the old...
Native American literature is interesting both in content and in the fact that it is a relatively recent phenomena. Native Americ...
who occupied the planet. However, this noble policy was short-lived when the settlers moved their way into Cherokee region, event...
Healing Historical Background Historically, Westerners have often dismissed metaphysical healing as having no validity, as being ...
(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...
Our conception of the ideal diet is shaped by a number of factors. As Pollan observes, many of these factors are political and sh...
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...
the directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...
culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native Americ...
doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...
became the first whites to actually see the valley (Ahwahnee, 2007). The Screeches encountered Pah Utes (Paiutes) camping in Hetch...