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an invasion. This was not an unclaimed and unused continent. Indeed, indigenous peoples not only lived here but rightfully claim...

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

as being better than Native Americans in some way. The English and the American colonist neither understood Native culture nor did...

water for a significant percentage of these people. The dissolution of the nuclear family is another problem that should be mor...

A people that call themselves the Winnemen...

The concept of restorative justice is something that is intriguing people from all...

kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...

a poem. It is a series of these paragraphs, each building on the previous one until the reader can form a picture of what has happ...

In a paper that consists of five pages the ways the Spanish perceived Native Americans in Latin America and the Caribbean are exam...

In seven pages this paper examines Silko's novel from a historical context in an analysis of what Ceremony reveals about the latte...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

developed, even barbaric (Ferro, 1997). This was true within the then US, there had been the perception of the Native Americans as...

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 ...

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

the tribes in Illinois had already signed treated which essentially given their land to the state. In light of this he pushed and ...