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Family Structure of the Cherokee

In nine pages this paper examines the matrilineal family structure of the Cherokee in terms of gender roles, marriage determinatio...

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

Success and Failures of Sam Houston

In five pages this paper examines Randolph B. Campbell's Sam Houston and the American Southwest in a consideration of the man, his...

Cherokee Stays of Sam Houston

In twelve pages this paper discusses Sam Houston's life in a consideration of this 2 Cherokee stays. There are 8 sources cited in...

E.F. Boggess' Witnessing of the Oklahoma Land Run

In five pages this paper examines the US government allocation of Oklahoma land to the Cherokees as observed by E.F. Boggess, a pr...

Dominant Historical Discourse of Community and Self

Americans and women. Self-realization is one of the main concepts behind Douglass narrative; possessing the ability to read the w...

America's Early National Disgrace, the 'Trail of Tears' of 1838

even thought they have adapted considerably well to our European cultures and lifeways have become an obstacle to these desires. ...

Native American Culture and Manifest Destiny

to describe concept that concerned the way that the people of America made it what it is today by the events that occurred during ...

History and Culture of the Cherokee

was regulated by his kinship system (Hudson 184). The kinship system provided sets of neat categories, categories for enemies, fo...

A Native American Widow in an Interview One-On-One

of a different race. A student can use this process to quickly come to the realization that individual behavior and relationships ...

A Review of Cherokee Women by Theda Perdue

delved further into some cultures and noted that they were matriarchal. Perdue does this when presenting us with the history of th...

Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven

love of this frightened child is the healing agent that helps Turtle to grow. The symbolism of Turtles name, for she has retreate...

The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears

forced removal became known as "The Trail of Tears", an event that proved once and for all that no matter what the Cherokee or oth...

Slavery and the Cherokee Society by Theda Perdue

of any profit motive. Perdue writes, "The plantation system, the institution of slavery, and the economic values of ...European pl...

Cherokee Indians and Religion

the Cherokee from their homelands, the establishment of a government reservation for the people, and the ultimate separation of th...

Cherokee Indians' Mortuary Practices

which the Cherokee deal with the dead has, of course, changed considerably over time as well. While today Cherokee mortuary pract...

Legacy of Conquest/The American West

the conquest era continue to shape current realities. Limericks text shows that the history of the American West is rooted primari...

Ancestral Georgia Lands of the Cherokee

In five pages this paper considers Native American land rights in a consideration of the U.S. government forcibly removing the Geo...

Family, Values, Organization of the Cherokee

In six pages this paper examines the Cherokee in a consideration of clans, the family structure, and the impact of culture upon va...

Creek and Cherokee Tribes and Traditional Southeastern Dance Decline

In six pages this paper examines the reasons why traditional Southeastern Native American dances like the stomp dance have decline...

Relocation of the Cherokee in the 'Trail of Tears' During the 1830s

Everyone knows the history of the United States as it respects the Indians, at least the gist of it. The Europeans came...

Jason Meyer's Article 'No Idle Past: Uses Of History In The 1830 Indian Removal Debates'

the removal was justified and the manner in which it was contested, however, varied considerably. Meyers (2000) article sheds con...

Sequoyah and His Invention of Cherokee Syllabary

He even became known by the names George Gist and George Guess and served in the US Army in the Creek War yet he never learned ...

Emotional Numbness

the psychological pain, he not only incapacitates himself from being drawn out of this emotional cocoon, but he establishes a prec...

Book Review of Theda Perdue's Cherokee Women Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835

Perdue (1999) examines the role of gender in Cherokee life during one of the most turbulent times of their history. During the...

Comparative Analysis of Cherokee and Appalachian Native American Cultures

quite unique as well and has played a significant role in shaping various aspects of the culture. Three parallel belts of distinc...

Individual, Society and the Social Adjustment of a 74 Year Old Mixed European and Cherokee Woman

In nine pages this paper presents an interview with an elderly woman of mixed Native American and European blood in a consideratio...

A History of Blacks in America From the Oppression of Slavery to the Civil Rights' Movement

direction that this country would ultimately take. They were also critical elements in determining the ultimate fate of the Afric...

The Admirable American Business Tycoon Andrew Carnegie

Harold Livesay's Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business is used in this six page evaluation of whether Carnegie should be ad...