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Identity of Native Americans, Religion and Politics

but it also led to a form of identity crisis for the descendants of these tribes. Part ancient heritage and part colonial industr...

Solar Storms by Linda Hogan

In five pages this paper discusses this Native American text in terms of differences in worldviews between the Native Americans an...

Poems That Reveal Joy Harjo's Life and Art

Reservation in Oklahoma. Harjo has retained the storytelling brilliance of her ancestors in her spiritually moving works, and t...

Sramana Tradition & Hinduism

of Hinduism, and it is generally revered and considered to be the source of dharma.5 "Veda" can be translated literally as "knowl...

The Concept of the “Virtuous Person” in Socratic and Buddhist Tradition

I was speaking have a superhuman wisdom, which I may fail to describe, because I have it not myself; and he who says that I have, ...

Scripture and Tradition in Roman Catholic Teaching

God. Achieving that goal also requires the instruction found in revelations made from God to various Catholic leaders over the ce...

Sundiata: The Text and the Man

in Africa. The importance of the character in the book is that he becomes a true hero. Conde frames the story of Sundiata "with g...

Archaeology, Traditional Cultures and Oral History

and a cultural object" (Romer, 2006, p. 735). In her book, Sofaer "discusses the way skeletal material in the mortuary context act...

The Commonalities and Influences of African Mythology

the changes which have occurred vary according to the specific African culture being discussed, there are certain commonalities wh...

Hurston's Feminist Influence for Alice Walker

This essay discusses the influence of Zora Neale Hurston in regards to Alice Walker's perspective on black oral tradition and femi...

Structure of Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

he feels totally disconnected from the world - everything is "other." This disconnection from reality is integrally tied to the ea...

Intellectual Development and Don Quixote, The Mali Epic of Son Jara, and The Epic of Gilgamesh

regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality and, perhaps above all, the concept of divine judgment and human guilt. I...

Cultural Practices Reflecting the Unity Between the Spritual and Material World Among the Indigenenous Cultures of Africa and the Americas

however, a rich oral tradition. Many who study this oral tradition, unfortunately, tend to lump all of these cultures stories und...

An Arabic Language Overview

In ten pages the language of Arabic is considered in terms of development that is not different according to socioeconomic classes...

Epic Oral Poetry Tradition

In seven pages this paper examines the epic 'Beowulf' in a consideration of the poetic oral tradition. Seven sources are cited in...

The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday

such as the coyote tales which are only told in winter. Not only is the story repeated according to the inflections, drama and hu...

Oral Traditions and Outside Resistance of the Hopi

In eight pages this paper discusses the Hopi culture in terms of its oral religious traditions as well as its steadfast resistance...

Oral Tradition, Slave Narratives, and White Readers

In five pages this paper discusses how the oral tradition is applied to slave narratives penned by Nat Turner, David Walker, Frede...

African Literature's Oral Culture and Tradition

In five pages this paper examines the oral cultural traditions of Africa in a short story analysis of 'Talk' recounted by Courland...

Writing and Speech in Novels by Camara Laye and Ousmane Sembene

In one page this paper examines Third World Africa in a contrast between written language and oral tradition as represented in G...

The Destruction of Native Culture in Australia

of large differences in terms of culture. The view was one of superiority, with the predominantly white immigrants perceiving them...

Native American v Puritan Mindset

This paper reviews the seventeenth century accounts by Mary Rowlandson and Increase Mather. Rowlandson was held captive by Native...

American Liberty, 1820-1877, Overview of Issues

This research paper/essay discusses various issues in American history pertaining to liberty. This includes the factors that led u...

Precontact Law and Government in Native America

contends that these rules included such considerations as individual rights, provisions for private property, and even adjudicatio...

Local Government and Casino Tax Revenue Regarding Native Americans

the boundaries of their federal reservations without being regulated by state or local law. There have been several tests...

Early American History Law Contradictions

independence brought the final break with Britain (Holton, 2000). Further, it was the refusal of these same individuals to joint t...

Post Revolutionary American and the Roles Played by Native Americans and African Americans

extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...

The Nineteenth Century Ghost Dance Era

In "Sitting Bull and the Paradox of the Lakota Nationhood" author Gary Clayton Anderson details the contradictions which are inher...

An American Genocide

Western expansion. This expansion was regarded by White Americans as Manifest Destiny, while Native Americans viewed it, and right...