YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Differing Views on Native American Distinctions
Essays 361 - 390
saying that she has helped "to destroy" her Hopi culture? What does she mean by "breaking away" from her heritage? Looking closely...
in well-baby exams for this group is establishing a rapport with the mother, a rapport that will gain her trust and her compliance...
involve the use of the four directions which some may say could be construed as a square but when ceremonies are being undertaken ...
(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...
out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...
among Indians has actually risen during ... the gaming boom" (Welker, 1997). There are more than 200 tribes with gaming establish...
with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...
an exciting adventure yarn. The ships are blown away in a hurricane; horses are killed; and the Spanish miss Cuba and land in Flo...
By that time the Indians were no longer valuable allies in the ongoing struggle for continental power, the importance of their con...
people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...
developed, even barbaric (Ferro, 1997). This was true within the then US, there had been the perception of the Native Americans as...
Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...
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...
the directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...
became the first whites to actually see the valley (Ahwahnee, 2007). The Screeches encountered Pah Utes (Paiutes) camping in Hetch...
of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
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 ...
inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...
effort in categorizing the tribes that populated the area and speculating as to their origin. He observed their subsistence patte...
The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...
2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...
the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...
Mato Tipila regularly as part of my religious observations, this is not only a political issue for me but also a personal issue. ...
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...
impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...