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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...
of the jurisdiction of the courts with the passing of the Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory Act in 1985. This act made a declar...
The history of the coca plant, Erythroxylum coca, is discussed in this paper, including its cultivation in Peru, Colombia and Boli...
In ten pages this paper examines intercultural relationships as featured in the text's portrayal of early 18th century Native Amer...
supreme being. This attribution was fatalistic in that it meant that there was little hope for mankind overall, however. Man was...
importance than some treaty provisions given the location of most Native American reservations in the arid West (Lewis, 2001). Wa...
Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...
was regulated by his kinship system (Hudson 184). The kinship system provided sets of neat categories, categories for enemies, fo...
is nothing wrong, per se, with a particular plant . . .until it threatens the plants that are supposed to be in a particular area ...
the first tasks undertaken by Weatherford is to define the term "Native American" itself. Indeed, the term Native American is a c...
Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...
that "all these houses have very large and very good rooms and also very pleasant gardens of various sorts of flowers both on the ...
contains sufficient elements of the repulsive to also inspire some degree of disgust or horror....
especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...
of cooperative learning is to encourage student accomplishment "by coupling individual accountability with group incentives and re...
Mato Tipila regularly as part of my religious observations, this is not only a political issue for me but also a personal issue. ...
human understanding, theorists such as Aristotle and Saint Augustine also considered the same subject as did Hobbes and the Port R...
at his door, he must not "send forth his death-dealing prayers" (Kamakau 120). Wealth that he can accept is when he uses his mag...
the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...
The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...
(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...
its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...
Jimmy thinks back to his childhood. At any rate, it is a startling introduction to life as Jimmy and other Indians live it. It al...
means, in turn, there "are no Prisons, no Officers to compel Obedience, or inflict Punishment. Hence they generally study Oratory,...
expected and takes places as part of the usual culture, as seen in areas such as Mallorca, where the dialect may be seen as very s...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
by Tarone hypothesized, three different levels of English accuracy occurred when these situations were compared and contrasted. I...