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the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...

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

otherwise availing and equitable pursuit of modern society, others support its continued presence and believe capitalism is meant ...

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

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...

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

protect their class interests" (Takaki, 1993, p. 62). The laws that they passed in their own favor "extended the time of indentur...

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

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

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

and his name "quickly became synonymous with the brewing industry" (Weldon). His company grew, prospered and expanded such that th...

The white exodus from Detroit is truly mind-boggling. There were 1,600,000 white living in Detroit after World War II, and roughly...

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 ...

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...

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 directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...

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

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

effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...

represents every aspect of black heritage. Religion embodies the black way of life from the very first moment slavery came into e...

Americans are in actuality much more oppressed by government regulations and society as a whole than they were in this earlier tim...

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

Glauser regards race more as a social construct than a physical characteristic. As such, whether "intentional or unintentional, o...