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"they opened up his [Native American] bowels. They tore the babes from their mothers breast and dashed their head against the roc...

they argue, man comes and chops, burns, uproots. Why should they care about the plight of man? This reflects the ongoing prob...

now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...

committed the act, if their felony falls into certain categories, if they were deemed mature enough to understand their sentence a...

2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...

"Except for a residential window period loan, a lender may enforce a due-on-sale clause in a real property loan in accordance with...

saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...

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...

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...

society has assigned this group is not that by which they prefer to be identified. The Navajo prefer to refer to themselves as th...

among Indians has actually risen during ... the gaming boom" (Welker, 1997). There are more than 200 tribes with gaming establish...

impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...

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

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

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

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

(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...

(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...

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...

Mato Tipila regularly as part of my religious observations, this is not only a political issue for me but also a personal issue. ...

the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...

its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

two very separate subjects. However, there are a number of laws where there are no apparent sanctions non-compliance, therefore s...

culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native Americ...