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Best Interest Of The Indian People Englund
1,759 wordsThis paper is an attempt to discuss the biography of Mary Englund's An Indian Remembers based on her childhood experiences in a Christian European convent. Her story starts from the day she is taken away from her family to be civilized in a distant residential school. Englund's experience in the school could be described as European way of civilizing the young native people that includes compulsory assimilation, segregation, control and racism. The concept of civilization is perceived to be for ...
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Common View Of Native Americans
1,296 wordsEisner G. LozaAmerican Lit. HI 117 Prof. PlochockiAugust 2, 2004 I pledge my honor that I have abide d by the Stevens Honor System American literature, beginning with the Puritans and going through the modern day, contains an array of different writers, styles, viewpoints, and inspiration. It has set standards, broken barriers, and surpassed most expectations by simply being honest and straightforward. Benjamin Franklin is considered one of the greatest American statesmen and is known as one of ...
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Being Of A Different Culture
645 wordsZuni Lucero and Simon Ortiz make compelling points in their papers. They talk about the differences in the two cultures. How they changed schools and saw both sides of their ever changing world at a young age. How being integrated into a white community changed them, and how they felt some what of an outsider going back to their native communities. Threw their writing they can elaborate and share these experiences to those of us who have only one culture to fit into. We all can relate to changin...
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Jhabvala's Character Olivia And Forster's Character Adela
2,103 wordsLiterature throughout time has contained many similarities. These similarities become even more prevalent when authors share a similar style and inspirations. Two authors that have similar experiences are Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and E.M. Forster. Both these authors have written books that are in the modernism style. Jhabvala and Forster also were fascinated by India and choose the relationships between native Indians and English colonizers as one of their themes. These similarities helped produce b...
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Momaday's Important Collections Of Poetry
2,501 wordsKenneth M. Roemer Momaday's Major Works The Journey of Tai-me. Santa Barbara: Privately Printed, 1967. House Made of Dawn. New York: Harper & Row, 1968. The Way to Rainy Mountain. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1969. Angle of Geese and Other Poems. Boston: Godin e, 1974. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976. The Names: A Memoir. The Ancient Child. New York: Doubleday, 1989. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Circl...
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Kind Of Indian
3,311 wordsKenneth Lincoln With Sherman Alexie, readers can throw formal questions out the smoke hole (as in resistance to other modern verse innovators, Whitman, Williams, Sexton, or the Beats). Parodic anti formalism may account for some of Alexie's mass maverick appeal. This Indian gadfly jumps through all the hoops, sonnet, to villanelle, to heroic couplet, all tongue-in-cheeky. "I'm sorry, but I've met thousands of Indians", he told Indian Artist magazine, Spring 1998, "and I have yet to know of anyon...
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Major Problem With Diabetic Native Americans
2,182 wordsSince the arrival of Columbus in 1492, American Indians have been in a continuous struggle with diseases. It may not be small pox anymore, but illnesses are still haunting the native population. According to statistics, Native Americans have much higher rates of disease than the overall population. This includes a higher death rate from alcoholism, tuberculosis, and diabetes than any other racial or ethnic group. Recent studies by Indian health experts show that diabetes among Indian youth ages ...
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Pocahontas And The Mythical Indian Woman
5,490 wordsPOCAHONTAS AND THE MYTHICAL INDIAN WOMAN: REFORMING THE IMAGE THROUGH NATIVE AMERICAN FICTION Pocahontas. Americans know her as the beautiful, Indian woman who fell in love with the white settler John Smith and then threw her body upon the poor white captive to protect him from being brutally executed by her own savage tribe. The magical world of Walt Disney came out with their own movie version several years ago portraying Pocahontas as a tan, sexy Barbie doll figure and John Smith as a blond-h...
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First Canadian Indian Act
771 wordsThe first Canadian Indian Act was issued in 1876. Though it has been revised numerous times, this hundred and thirty year old legislation has been left virtually unchanged. Established in order to ensure the assimilation of Native Americans in Canada, the Indian Act instead had achieved the total opposite. It has made this distinction more and has given immense power to the government, letting them control all who reside on the reserves. It was then that the distinction between Status Indians an...
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Little House On The Prairie Series
606 words'The Banning of Little House on the Prairie' Objections to Little House on the Prairie arose in the mid 1990's. Until then, the book, as well as the rest of the series, was highly praised for children of all ages. In fact, Laura was such a highly praised author that a book award was named in her honor, The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. It was established in 1954 by the American Library Association and was first presented to Mrs. Wilder herself for the Little House on the Prairie series. It is now ...
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Exaggerated Image Of The Real Historical Character
409 wordsThe main thesis of the essay is that Disneys Pocahontas is the exaggerated image of the real historical character, although noble as well. Pocahontas is mentioned to be the only animated film based on a real character and this movie is the only shedding light on Native Americans and their life. Native Americans are people people who once lived on this continent. The stereotypes of Native Americans are thus misinterpreted and the animated film was rather useful for getting rid of such stereotypes...
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Feelings Of The Natives Toward The British
1,428 wordsGeorge Orwell's novel Burmese Days is set in 1920's Burma under British colonialism. It focuses on the imperialism of the British and its effects on the relationships between the British, the British and Indians, and between the Indians themselves. The novel concentrates on the town of Kyauktada in Upper Burma. Kyauktada is described as hot and sultry. It is a small town of about four thousand. The overwhelming majority of the inhabitants are Burmese, but there are also a hundred Indians, two Eu...
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Way About The Native Americans
672 wordsMarie Maff ei Dr. Jordan College Writing II February 4, 2001 Bias History While researching the early relations between the American Indians, and the first European settlers, Jane Tompkins found that the way history was recorded seemed to mislead her. In her essay " ' Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the problem of History", Tompkins found that the historians put prejudice facts, and looked down upon Native Americans. Clearly it is seen that even through time, historians are still this way. T...
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Messerschmidt's The Trial Of Leonard Peltier
3,240 wordsOne of the modern Native Americans' most prominent leaders, Leonard Peltier, was arrested in the summer of 1975 and eventually sentenced to two life terms for a crime many believe he did not commit. The conviction and imprisonment of Leonard Peltier is an injustice. His prosecution by the United States government represents yet another attempt to snuff out American Indian culture and leaders. The outspokenness of Peltier and other AIM members may be the only reason why Leonard Peltier has sat in...
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Mission's Displayed Documents And Artifacts
1,187 wordsLast summer, I was fortunate enough to travel to Austria and visit Mauthousen, a concentration camp that my grandfather helped liberate during the Second World War. That experience contributed infinitely to my understanding of history and the terror that the Mauthousen prisoners endured. I found the expedition to Mission San Luis Rey de Francia equally interesting and enlightening in its own way. While the WWII concentration camp's horrors were well documented and profusely displayed, the missio...
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Very Unpleasant Sight Captain Lewis
2,415 wordsExploration Lewis and Clark Chapter 25: A Very Unpleasant Sight Captain Lewis notices some horses, and using his spyglass discovers several Indians with them. This was a very unpleasant sight. Captain Lewis decided to make the best of the situation and approach the Indians in a friendly manner. The Indians noticed the mean and began to run about in a confused manner. Even tough the situation did not look good to Lewis, he continued his approach. When they were about one hundred yards away from e...
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Half Indian
399 wordsThe short story Class by Sherman A lexie is a tale of a half-white, half Native American man named Edgar trying to find his sense of belonging in the world. The story begins with him meeting his future wife. Her name is Susan McDermott. Shortly after they are married Edgar discovers his wife is cheating on him. So in turn he starts cheating on her. Then years latter she becomes pregnant with their first child and loses it. Edgar always felt like she blamed him for the dying of there first-born. ...
