YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Jack Weatherfords Native Roots
Essays 511 - 540
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...
sustainable practices. Environmental Concerns and Golf Courses And why should golf courses be viewed as an environmental me...
Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...
the Native Americans undoubtedly traveled extensively in prehistoric times. Their reasons for this travel and their consequent ar...
developed, even barbaric (Ferro, 1997). This was true within the then US, there had been the perception of the Native Americans as...
took a vicious Civil War to legally end the "peculiar institution," although the South continued to pass such things as the Jim Cr...
By that time the Indians were no longer valuable allies in the ongoing struggle for continental power, the importance of their con...
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...
of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...
English who had come to steal corn and the result was that the English colony waited until 1613 before their leaders were sufficie...
among Indians has actually risen during ... the gaming boom" (Welker, 1997). There are more than 200 tribes with gaming establish...
the states obligation to act justly and equally toward all citizens" (ACRI, 2002). Those Bedouins who chose to bypass the milita...
historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...
languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...
this perspective the pow wow evolved in accordance with trade needs. Native peoples and those Europeans that had invaded their la...
women had with their community would, in many ways, come to be emulated by American women as they made their footholds in the new ...
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...
belly pulsed with fear...and the rat emitted a long thin song of defiance, its black beady eyes glittering" (Wright, 10). ...
not a detriment. Consider, for example, the Mississippi Choctaw. At least one anthropologists has termed the Mississippi Choctaw...
discussed in more detail below, it represents a phenomenal improvement in the way the parental and familial rights of Native Ameri...
additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...
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 ...
come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...
(Bilingual/ESL, 2004). Carrasquillo and Rodriguez (1996) point out that mainstreaming LEP students is one of the most significan...
example, that shaped the tribal communities and their emphasis on sharing resources as a primary value (Larson). The land was far ...
which may indicate the natives side of the story. At the time of writing this, Sarard may be seen as a member of the colonial powe...