YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Survival of Native Americans and the Importance of Memory
Essays 361 - 390
among Indians has actually risen during ... the gaming boom" (Welker, 1997). There are more than 200 tribes with gaming establish...
By that time the Indians were no longer valuable allies in the ongoing struggle for continental power, the importance of their con...
with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...
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...
reveals that "70% of Cuban Americans, 64% of Puerto Ricans, and 50% of Mexican Americans 25 years-of-age and over have graduated f...
in well-baby exams for this group is establishing a rapport with the mother, a rapport that will gain her trust and her compliance...
(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...
an exciting adventure yarn. The ships are blown away in a hurricane; horses are killed; and the Spanish miss Cuba and land in Flo...
people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...
2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...
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...
saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...
impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...
society has assigned this group is not that by which they prefer to be identified. The Navajo prefer to refer to themselves as th...
The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...
the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...
Mato Tipila regularly as part of my religious observations, this is not only a political issue for me but also a personal issue. ...
its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...
inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...
(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...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...
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...