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Capturing Stereotypes Through Puritan Narratives, 2000.
An examination on how early American settlers portrayed Native Americans in a bad light.
3,166 words (approx. 12.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 91.95
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The paper shows that captivity narratives written by early settlers of America succeeded in conveying unfair stereotypes about Native Americans. These narratives recorded the captives' physical, mental, and spiritual experiences. The paper examines the reasons for these abductions, circumstances and experiences of those who were abducted, with a specific analysis of how the autobiography "Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" perpetuates the conveyance of stereotypes about Native Americans.
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"Throughout the history of Colonial North America, Native Americans have been portrayed as evil and heathen in many ways. The Native Americans were depicted as evil and soulless; a race beyond any reason that delighted murder of innocent Christians. One such way is through the writing of ?captivity narratives,? whose purpose was to record the captive?s physical, mental and spiritual experiences as they journeyed through the unknown. Captivity narratives also served a purpose in that they led to reflection on the meaning of life and helped shaped the expectations of any other unfortunate settlers who might find themselves in captivity at some time (Ebersole 20). These accounts of captivity became stories to be told and retold in order to reflect upon the situation forced upon the captive and, for the Puritans, to reflect in God?s grace at having delivered them from the hands of these ?savages.? These narratives were unfortunately never objective or neutral in any way, as they always portrayed Native Americans as creatures with no souls whose sole purpose in life was to distribute pain and suffering to those who were God-fearing; they were thought of as instruments of the devil. In this way, captivity narratives succeeded in conveying unfair stereotypes about Native Americans that have not (until recently) been overcome."
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Native American Families, 2002.
A look at the Native American family units from before colonization to the present day.
2,039 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 64.95
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This paper provides a detailed history of Native American families and the way they functioned. It traces these units from before the Americas were settled by the Europeans and their adaption to reservation life. The paper also examines the revival of Native American culture and family appreciation in modern America.
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"Native American girls are taught all they need to know to be a good Indian wife. They were taught to make clay pots, weave baskets, mend clothes, and scrape skins, set snare traps, cook and other chores. Some tribal women even constructed the homes and furniture for the homes. Young girls had much more responsibility in learning than young boys. Young girls reached adulthood when they experienced their first menstrual period. She was whisked off by the older tribal women to a isolated hut to spend at least four days. Many tribes performed rituals when a girl reached womanhood. Some were painful and isolation was common, but public celebrations would follow the rituals."
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Comanche and Cheyenne Legal and Political Systems, 1995.
Compares the tribes' laws, norms, governments, marital status, property rights and case studies. Includes an outline.
3,600 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 9 sources, $ 127.95
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"This paper will examine the law of some of the Plains Indians and will use the laws of the Cheyenne and Comanche tribes as case studies. The case studies selected for this paper will illustrate the political and legal systems of the Cheyenne and Comanche tribes. This paper will also compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the legal systems of these two tribes.
A review of several case histories of the Cheyenne and Comanche tribes reveals that, although the Cheyennes have a more sophisticated culture than the Comanches and the economic base of the two societies is similar, the Cheyenne culture reflects a higher level of institutionalization (Hoebel, 1969, p. 6). The most notable difference between the legal systems of the two societies is that the Comanches do not recognize their behavior ..."
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Shawnee, 1995.
Discusses their origins and history, society, spiritual traditions, leadership, resistence to whites and the disintegration of American-Indian tribe.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 7 sources, $ 39.95
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"THE SHAWNEE
This research paper summarizes the history, traditions and culture of the central Appalachian Shawnee tribe of American Indians. Through a combination of circumstances, this itinerant but highly resilient tribe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries found itself directly in the path of the pressing wave of British/ American settlement of the Northwest Territory. The Shawnee assumed leadership of the defense of Indian society in the struggle that ensued under the leadership of their last great chief, Tecumseh, who was finally slain in battle in 1813. Because of their warrior traditions, competent leadership, spiritual elan and internal cohesion, the Shawnee gave a good account of themselves in this unequal struggle.
Origins and Early History..."
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"Love Medicine" ( Louise Erdrich ) and "Winter In The Blood" ( James Welch ), 1995.
Examines fictional treatments of issues of gender and cultural roles among Native American populations.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"Louise Erdrich in her novel Love Medicine and James Welch in his Winter in the Blood each address issues of gender and cultural roles among contemporary Native American populations. Both authors indicate how the Native American of today has been forcibly separated from the land and thought of his ancestors and what a devastating effect this has had on Native American society. In both cases, the writers speaks from a position inside that society. Erdrich shows more concern for feminist issues, as might be expected from a writer of her gender, while both writers express a sense of continuing loss in the Native American community and lay blame for this with the federal government and the institutions it has created for the administration and control of Indian affairs, with the land embodying both the traditions of the past and the tenuous hold ..."
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Native American Education, 1995.
Examines the ineffectiveness of reservation boarding schools and federal government policy, forced emigration, assimilation, civil rights, gambling industry, focusing on the Cherokee Nation.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 6 sources, $ 95.95
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"The Cherokee Nation is a role model of self-sufficiency among Native American tribes. The Cherokee, recognized as a sovereign nation by the United States government, number about 175,000 full- and mixed-blood individuals, with the majority located in northeastern Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Cherokee successfully administer their own affairs. Programs such as Head Start, Job Corps, public housing, and substance abuse clinics have been supervised by the Cherokee Nation since the 1970s. In Cherokee-run schools, the basic curriculum is supplemented by instruction in tribal history, language, and culture. The Cherokee are attempting to obliterate the devastating effects of decades of federal government Indian education policy, which emphasized the assimilation of Native Americans into the dominant white culture."
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"The Last Of The Mohicans" ( Michael Mann ), 1995.
Analyzes the 1992 film version of this 19th Century novel about the relations between American-Indians and British colonists.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"The recent film version of The Last of the Mohicans (1992) takes certain liberties with the original story in an attempt to create a saga far more romantic than James Fenimore Cooper would ever have imagined. The novel was part of a series of novels known collectively as "The Leatherstocking Tales," of which there are five, all produced between 1823 and 1841. The Last of the Mohicans was the second in the series in the order written, though the chronological order of the novels would be different, with the first story chronologically being the last of the five novels produced. Cooper was the first major American novelist, and his books are infused with an understanding of the colonial period, though Cooper himself was born not only after that era but after the founding of the country in 1776. Cooper was born in 1789 and died in 1851. His most popular novel was probably ..."
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Religious Freedom, 1995.
This paper analyzes the 1972 Supreme Court case (Wisconsin v. Yoder) allowing Amish children to not attend public school and two cases involving Native American religion.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 10 sources, $ 119.95
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"Although Wisconsin v. Yoder was the first decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the rights of religious dissenters (the Amish) to forgo compulsory education requirements, the case did not set a clear precedent of judicial tolerance for the practices of other religious minority groups. On the contrary, lower courts and the Supreme Court itself have subsequently ruled against religious minorities (most notably, Native Americans) when the practice of their religions conflicted with government interests. Some anthropologists claim that the Amish were given preferential treatment in Wisconsin v. Yoder because the nature of their religion conformed to the prevailing WASP norms and mores.
The controversy that led to Wisconsin v. Yoder began in 1968 when school officials in New Glarus, Wisconsin filed suit against ... "
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Cahuilla Indians, 1994.
A look at the South-Central Californian tribe. Includes villages, hunting, foods, baskets and pottery, games and music, lineage, leaders and language.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"The Cahuilla is the name given to a group of south-central California Indians. The term is of uncertain origin but may be from their own word kawiya 'master, boss' (Bean 575). The Cahuilla area was topographically complex, comprised of mountain ranges interspersed by passes, canyons, valleys, and desert, with elevations from 11,000 feet in the San Bernardino Mountains to 273 feet below sea level at the Salton Sea. The Cahuilla occupied most of the area, from the summit of the San Bernardino Mountains in the north to Borrego Springs and the Chocolate Mountains in the south, a portion of the Colorado Desert west of Orocopia Mountain to the east, and the San Jacinto Plain near Riverside and the eastern slopes of Palomar mountain to the west.
Cahuilla villages were usually situated in canyons or on alluvial fans near adequate sources of water and food materials..."
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Hopi Religion, 1994.
A look at the rituals, beliefs, life and death, myth, gods, kachinas, the relation between the supernatural and the weather, rain-making, agriculture, witches, underworld and healing.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, $ 47.95
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"North American Indians share a belief in a supernatural being representing a god, and practice religions based in myth and rituals. They have a profusion of tales regarding the origin of the world and what makes nature work (Hultkrantz 30). The purpose of this paper will be to discuss one of these tribes, the Hopi of the Pueblo Nation, and its religious beliefs, with particular emphasis on the person, spirit or God who the culture thinks can control the weather or alter it. The research also will present this culture's view of the end of the world and compare it to others within the Pueblo and Indian nations.
The Pueblos, comprised of many linguistic families, are primarily found throughout the area now known as New Mexico. Sedentary agriculturists, they lived in stone or adobe community houses which made up villages called pueblos and were noted for..."
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"A Poison Stronger Than Love: The Destruction Of An Ojibwa Community" by Anastasia M Shkilnyk, 1994.
A look at the effect of the author's sympathetic point of view on the objectivity of her study of the American-Indian tribe.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"This study will examine the effect of the point of view of author Anastasia M. Shkilnyk on her analysis of the material in her book A Poison Stronger Than Love: The Destruction of An Ojibwa Community. The study will argue that Shkilnyk's point of view is entirely sympathetic with the beleaguered members of the tragic community she studies, but at the same time she strives to maintain an objective stance as a scholarly observer. Obviously, the compassion of the author marks the entire book, but there is no claim that is not supported by the evidence. What Shkilnyk manages to do is find a balance among competing points of view within herself.
We see the author's humane concern in her Introduction, in which she declares her subject: "This book is about the origins of suffering in the life of these Indian people" (2). In fact, it..."
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American-Indians in 19th Century Historical Novels, 1994.
An analysis of the stereotypes and negative and positive portrayals in James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Francis Parkman, Mark Twain and Bret Harte.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 71 sources, $ 79.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the image of the Indian in the 19th-century American historical novel. The plan of the research will be to set forth a survey of discussions of American historical novels that portray Indian characters and life, with a view toward identifying American writers' trends and attitudes in the 19th century toward native Americans, and then to discuss how those attitudes framed and shaped more general perceptions of Indians in the mainstream culture as a whole. As we shall see, the weight of evidence from Indian portrayals on the whole is that they serve narrative more than insight. In particular, the presumption of Indian displacement by white culture pervades much 19th-century historical fiction.
Differences in perception about whether the displacement is just or unjust largely surface more as a matter of degree than..."
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Indian Gaming Regulatory Act ( Igra ), 1994.
Argues that Native American reservations are in a unique legal position as nearly sovereign political entities. Examines gambling as the most effective means by which tribes generate revenues, & some positive & negative responses.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 9 sources, $ 95.95
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"Introduction:
In recent years, various Indian tribes have turned to casino-type gambling operations as a way to generate revenues and to overcome the deep-seated unemployment facing many tribes. Various commentators have noted the sudden growth of legalized gambling on Indian reservations. This shift also can be considered a sign of the sweeping shift in public morality that is under way in virtually every municipality, Indian and non.Indian, across the country as gambling has become an acceptable form of mass.market entertainment. In 1992 Americans spent more on legal games of chance than on films, books, amusement attractions, and recorded music combined; in that same year Americans spent three times as much money at Indian gambling casinos as on movie tickets (Magnuson, 1994, 169). Some of the.."
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Crows & Apaches, 1994.
Describes Plains Indian tribes' histories and their relations with U.S. govt. Discusses their ceremonies, diseases, social organization, treatment of children and religion.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, $ 79.95
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"The Crow Indians called themselves the Absaroka, which is Siouan for "bird people." Their name among whites became that of the well-known bird. Early in their history, they left the Hidatsas of the upper Missouri in what is now North Dakota because of a dispute over buffalo.. Led by Chief No Vitals, the Crows then migrated farther upriver, to the Yellowstone River at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. This territory is presently in southern Montana and northern Wyoming. The Crows who settled north of the Yellowstone toward the Musselshell River became known as the Mountain Crow because of the high terrain. Those who lived to the south, along the valleys of the Big Horn, Powder, and Wind rivers, came to be called the River Crow.
Both groups of Crows gave up the village life of their Hidatsa kinsmen. They stopped farming for food, growing only.."
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Kiowa Language, 1994.
In context of tribe's culture. Looks at origins, stories and linguistics.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 9 sources, $ 47.95
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" The Kiowa language is only one of many Native American languages in danger of disappearing simply because the young are not learning this aspect of their culture in any great numbers. This makes the language only one of the many language in the world that is in danger of becoming extinct either because of a reduction in the population, a stronger linguistic influence that is overpowering the old language, the failure of the young to learn the language, or some other force that makes the language less vital in a given culture. As a language like English grows in importance and in the number of speakers using it, a language such as that of the Kiowa slowly disappears unless an effort is made to record and preserve it, as scholars are doing with as many languages as they can.
The Kiowa are a southern plains people who originated in the.."
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Christopher Columbus, 1993.
Examines revisionist views of discoverer of America as an aspect of recognition of exploitation of American Indians.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, $ 47.95
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" October 12, 1992 marks the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' discovery of America. In the contemporary global mood, however, this is less an occasion for celebration than for meditation.. Just when business and government sponsors of the Columbus Quincentennial--the marketing extravaganza designed to mark the explorer's landing on the continent--thought the celebration would run smoothly, groups of Indian activists and artists staged protests throughout the country.
On one side of this controversy were the Columbus boosters--the U.S. and Spanish governments, national and multi-national corporations--all hoping to profit politically, culturally, and economically from this event. On the other side of this disputed moment in history are the American Indians and their supporters--who no longer are willing to allow the glorification of.."
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Legalized Gambling in the U.S., 1993.
A look at the history, legislation with examples in New Jersey and on the Indian reservations, politics, religion and economics.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 10 sources, $ 63.95
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"The Legalization of Gambling in the United States
This paper will examine the history of legal gambling in the United States, the experiences of New Jersey and Indian tribes with legal casino gaming, and the arguments for and against legal gambling.
Legal gambling in the United States has a history which goes back to the earliest colonial period. The first permanent colonial settlement, Jamestown, was financed in large part by private lotteries in England. The colony itself quickly earned a reputation for gambling in the early 17th Century; settlers were even reputed to have bet their indentured servants in games. Blamed for the settlement's near failure, however, most serious forms of gambling were outlawed in the colony by 1612 (Findlay, 1986, pp. 12-13)."
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Racial Inequality in the U.S., 1993.
A comparison of the theories of four experts on racism in the 19th century and early 20th century America, focusing on blacks, Native Americans, Chicanos and Asians.
4,500 words (approx. 18.0 pages), 4 sources, $ 135.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine racial inequality in America through a comparative and historical perspective. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context in which analysis of the issue can most usefully be considered, and then discuss the experience of blacks, Native Americans, Chicanos, and Asians from the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.
The history of racial inequality in America is above all a history of moral division and physical separation. While, as we shall see, this may be less true of the modern period than it was in the 19th century, the fact that the subject of race and culture is a matter of such vigorous debate in the country makes the point that the residue of division within a well-defined social structure remains strong. Takaki understands that this is in the background of the American culture, across races, which is..."
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