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especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

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

: Sources of Global History and Bulliet et als Earth and Its Peoples : A Global History Since 1750 are instrumental in illustratin...

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...

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

involve the use of the four directions which some may say could be construed as a square but when ceremonies are being undertaken ...

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

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

in well-baby exams for this group is establishing a rapport with the mother, a rapport that will gain her trust and her compliance...

reveals that "70% of Cuban Americans, 64% of Puerto Ricans, and 50% of Mexican Americans 25 years-of-age and over have graduated f...

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

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

(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...

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

an exciting adventure yarn. The ships are blown away in a hurricane; horses are killed; and the Spanish miss Cuba and land in Flo...

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...

with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...

of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

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...

By that time the Indians were no longer valuable allies in the ongoing struggle for continental power, the importance of their con...

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

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

intentionally changed, actions which were all believed justified under the predominant mindset of "manifest destiny". The rel...

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...

importance than some treaty provisions given the location of most Native American reservations in the arid West (Lewis, 2001). Wa...