It expresses his western education and view of the world, but the non-narrative structure is a tell-tale sign of Native American roots. ... Tayo's struggle may be a parallel of her own struggle to come to terms with her roots and overcome the discrimination from both cultures....
Sacagawea was an important member of the Shoshone tribe. She was born in eastern Idaho in what is now Salmon, Idaho. It is thought that her birth year was about 1790. When Sacagawea was around the age of 10, she was captured by a raiding band of Hidatsa and carried to their camp near the border o...
"Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question" By Diane Burns Thesis: In Diane Burns's poem "Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question", a minority who ethnic roots misunderstood eagerly answered questions to help the stereotypical white woman identify the speaker cultural. ...
Quite possibly because stories of Spanish settlements being considered the roots of our country, or Native Americans owning the land before anyone, do not sit comfortably with "White America" and their preconceived notions of the Pilgrims being the first "settlers"....
Uncommon Race, Common Love The reason that Daniel Boone never harbored resentment towards the Indians will probably never be known to anyone except Boone himself. Boone viewed the ongoing battles between the Indians and the white man as a necessary instrument ordained to settle the wilderness, but...
Thomas Whitecloud, an educated Native American, finds himself distant from his people while he and his people are forced to be "imitation white men" (Whitecloud, 3). However, Whitecloud remarkably draws himself closer to his native people, unlike Rodriguez who in order to be a "scholarship boy" had ...
Native American teenagers face a lot of challenges because we are still trying to recover everything that we lost when we were originally thought to be the inferior race. One might actually wonder how the nations indigenous populations became "inferior" cultures on their own land, or how a nation co...
By eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. Small-scale societies are one of the first victims of this transgression. John H. Bodley guides the readers of, "Victims of Progress" to the subjectification to cultural change, modernization, and economic d...
King Andrew I? The United States of America was founded on the basis that every man had certain unalienable rights, and no man should be able to change or take those away. The American people struggled to win freedom from the oppression of a domineering King, and fought a war because of what th...
What does it mean to be taken captive? According to Webster's dictionary a captive is one who is forcibly confined, subjugated, or enslaved. It is obviously not a desire for anyone to become a captive of war, however this was the case for hundreds of colonists both French and English dur...
The Indians refer to this march as the Trail of Tears and even though it took place after Jackson's presidency, the roots of the march can be found in Jackson's failure to uphold the legal rights of Native Americans during his administration. ...
Cultural appropriation is the process in which one culture adopts specific rudiments of another culture, usually a culture that is underrepresented or oppressed. Appropriation draws a very thin line between inspiration and defamation. Fashion has borrowed elements from other cultures as marketing t...
It's all about titles and not hurting someone's feelings! I can remember a time when having a job of a housewife was a noble thing. I think I am dating myself a little but a wife and mother staying home to take care of the house and the kids was not just common it was also expected and respected...
The Literature of Colonial America 1620-1776 The Religious Background The early religion of the colonies was one based primarily on Puritan dogma. The Puritans were a fundamentalist group who felt that the church had become corrupt and that it was the scriptures not the trappings that were imp...
Native American Voices The book of Genesis V.S. The Cherokee creation myth. In the book of Genesis there was a God that created the earth and heaven. On the other hand, in the Cherokee creation myth in the beginning there is only water and a beetle accidentally created earth. In the Cherokee c...
The Cultural Divide By Courtney Ulrich Throughout history, the clash of contrasting cultures has never resulted in a positive conclusion, but rather racial segregation and the arrogant use of stereotypes in all aspects of life. Long before the white man set foot on Canadian and Saskatchewan soil,...
