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

the same but instead of dealing with a European based government or government, Native Americans would have an almost omnipotent g...

the battle between the North and the South done, the future held some promise. But, that future could not exist if the Natives sti...

Lewis and Clark expedition would be on American soil right up to the point it crossed the Rocky Mountains (Fritz, 2001)....

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

believed that the Puritans were more organized, unified, visionary and disciplined certainly had not done a great deal of study of...

members of particular racial and ethnic groups which are often compared in relation to the majority or dominant group within the p...

away to make room for the whites" If this were the case then why was...

non-Native culture, Zitkala was forced to leave her home and family at the young age of twelve. She was sent to a Quaker missiona...

survival of the species, but the females of many species look with disdain on the losers of battle between the males. These femal...

one can take from this article is a one-sided story told from the point of view of the Native Americans. However, this...

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...

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. ...

statement elsewhere, but, to the best of my recollection, there was never any serious attempt to turn Native Americans into a work...

followers of John Calvin (Readers Companion to American History, 1991). The Puritans would begin their influx to the Americas in ...

programs exist with the purpose of offering health-care services to this population specifically. Many more improvements have b...