YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Two Native American Narratives
Essays 271 - 300
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...
a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...
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 ...
(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...
the directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...
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...
thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought ...
not a detriment. Consider, for example, the Mississippi Choctaw. At least one anthropologists has termed the Mississippi Choctaw...
discussed in more detail below, it represents a phenomenal improvement in the way the parental and familial rights of Native Ameri...
of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...
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...
child is becoming more socially aware and has a greater intellectual capacity, but still has problems regarding bereavement. This...
the states obligation to act justly and equally toward all citizens" (ACRI, 2002). Those Bedouins who chose to bypass the milita...
Europeans and to observe that, while their culture has changed in some respects, they remain a distinctive cultural group even tod...
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...
(through industrialization), rather than a place to keep pristine or clear. The problem was, in his treatise, Turner ignor...
begins, it can be stated, with a desire for land, goods, resources, and strategic military operations. In a struggle of strong ver...
chapters of the history of European domination in the so-called "New World" sometimes took slightly different directions. Such wa...
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...
believed that the Puritans were more organized, unified, visionary and disciplined certainly had not done a great deal of study of...
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...
with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...