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New World Communications

an exciting adventure yarn. The ships are blown away in a hurricane; horses are killed; and the Spanish miss Cuba and land in Flo...

Review of the Native American Novel The Light People

the serious topics addressed. Above all, this is a story about a search for family. As Okinaway goes through life, he does seem t...

Native American Ceremony and the Importance of the Circle

involve the use of the four directions which some may say could be construed as a square but when ceremonies are being undertaken ...

Sociological Concepts Applied to a Navajo Identity Description

Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...

Fools Crow by James Welch Questions Answered

(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...

Group Labeling and an Investigation of Differences VI

reveals that "70% of Cuban Americans, 64% of Puerto Ricans, and 50% of Mexican Americans 25 years-of-age and over have graduated f...

Native Americans and End of Life Issues

people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...

Viejas and Morongo Tribal Cultural and Economic Transformations

a demand for their services. The Native Americans that own these casinos and work in them benefit economically and socially as th...

'What You Pawn I Will Redeem' by Sherman Alexie

he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...

Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest

Johnson (1999) specifically addresses the path of negotiations between the Kalapuya and the US government, recounting the Kalapuya...

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...

'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven' and 'Smoke Signals'

This 7 page paper compares Alexie's 1993 book with the Chris Eyre 1998 book that was inspired by the film and its representation o...

Native Americans and the Effects of Diabetes

The American Diabetes Association (2003) reports that individuals with diabetes are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease a...

Cultural and Political Autonomy Preservation Struggles of Native American Leaders

the Europeans who had invaded Native American lands. The English to whom we most often attribute the negativities of history in r...

History Texts' Depiction of Native Americans

was not construed as legitimate. Today, that is far from the case. History is a valid and viable subject and one that is taught fr...

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...

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...

Native American Short Story 'High Horse's Counting'

speaking with the man directly, or setting about to use his mind to figure out a logical answer, he resorts to unethical behavior....

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...

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...

Native Hawaiian Children and Bereavement Programs

child is becoming more socially aware and has a greater intellectual capacity, but still has problems regarding bereavement. This...

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...

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...

What Would Have Happened in America if William Bradford Had Not Prevailed and Thomas Morton Had?

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 ...

U.S. Economics and Native American Casinos

not a detriment. Consider, for example, the Mississippi Choctaw. At least one anthropologists has termed the Mississippi Choctaw...

Indian Child Welfare Act

discussed in more detail below, it represents a phenomenal improvement in the way the parental and familial rights of Native Ameri...

Native American Culture and Way of Life Decimation

intentionally changed, actions which were all believed justified under the predominant mindset of "manifest destiny". The rel...

Native Americans Viewed Differently in Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan and The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In seven pages this paper examines the role the historical time periods of the authors played in these very different glimpses of ...

Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan

In five pages this Native American text is analyzed in terms of content, meaning, and gender relationships. There are no other so...