YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Historical Views on Native Americans
Essays 181 - 210
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
(through industrialization), rather than a place to keep pristine or clear. The problem was, in his treatise, Turner ignor...
this perspective the pow wow evolved in accordance with trade needs. Native peoples and those Europeans that had invaded their la...
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...
importance than some treaty provisions given the location of most Native American reservations in the arid West (Lewis, 2001). Wa...
contains sufficient elements of the repulsive to also inspire some degree of disgust or horror....
especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...
native people for their own agendas toward cleaning up the earth. Those in the environmental movement dont seem to care about the ...
the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...
In ten pages this paper examines intercultural relationships as featured in the text's portrayal of early 18th century Native Amer...
They would found the first permanent English colony, New England. Some twenty-one thousand would arrive between 1630 and 1642 (Re...
involve the use of the four directions which some may say could be construed as a square but when ceremonies are being undertaken ...
in well-baby exams for this group is establishing a rapport with the mother, a rapport that will gain her trust and her compliance...
impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...
(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...
reveals that "70% of Cuban Americans, 64% of Puerto Ricans, and 50% of Mexican Americans 25 years-of-age and over have graduated f...
saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...
society has assigned this group is not that by which they prefer to be identified. The Navajo prefer to refer to themselves as th...
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...
cultural artifacts. Many have contended since the original "discovery" of this country that Native American spirituality is...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
the directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...
its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...
(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...