Medicine has changed a lot since the seventeenth century and this paper will show how early Americans struggled to counter wide-spread diseases and common illnesses that are not considered a problem in our modern society. ... They used many forms of medicine such as herbs, like the colonists, but they also used traditional dances and sweat lodges as a form of medicine. ... They also played a part in discovering insulin and modern day birth control. ...

• Word Count: 810
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The Ghost Dance was created as a result to go backwards in time, to escape the life they do not want to live, with buffalos to hunt, and free lands to roam in. ... As they began to practice this new ritual ghost dance, many white settlers were afraid, and the military were soon investigating the Sioux Indians. ... What happened next would be the most unimaginable massacre known to most Indians in modern times. ... People are afraid that it will create uproar of political issues to our modern political arena. ...

• Word Count: 1427
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Grand Avenue is an honest glimpse into the lives of modern, urban Native Americans. ... In the beginning of Grand Avenue the audience sees Justine drunk and dancing at a party, and then having sex in the back of a car. ...

• Word Count: 879
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Alexie is a modern writer who is not bound by a single genre. ... Secondly, he communicates how modern Native Americans endure the assault of mainstream culture on their heritage, imagination and spirit. While his writing is modern, traditional or historical elements like powwows, fancy dancing, alcoholism and poverty, are interwoven throughout. ...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Thomas mixes elements of the traditional with elements of the modern in order to make his stories all that much more relevant, and all the more urgent. ... (The reserved Victor, impatient with Thomas's chatter, accuses him of having learned most of what he knows about Indians by watching ``Dances With Wolves,'' and advises him to spend more time ``looking stoic.'') ... ``Smoke Signals'' is, in a way, a continuation of a 1989 movie named ``Powwow Highway,'' in which Farmer starred as a huge, gentle, insightful man, and A Martinez as more ``modern...

• Word Count: 2533
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Even though his works were becoming more and more modern and contemporary he was still able to incorporate the traditions and symbols of the Native American culture in them. A good example of this is this piece that depicts several Native American women dancing. Although the web site that I got this picture from did not give a title for this picture I believe that it is a joyful dance. ... The title of this piece is "War Dancer". ...

• Word Count: 1918
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

1.) The Film draws you into the Lakota lifestyle and makes you feel sympathetic toward the Native Americans by having them speak in their native language. This made them appear as if they were ordinary people like a person from today's world. Also the film showed how they interacted with each other ...

• Word Count: 830
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Through their culture, beliefs, and traditions Native Americans influenced the arrival of the new man, including modern American literature. ... They were passed down from generation to generation: grandparents told grandchildren, dances or songs were performed, and designated orators told the tribal community (Bierhorst 3). ... Many Native writings are about survival and change; it was the white man who came into their lives and made them change everything they once knew and gave birth to modern Native writings. ...

• Word Count: 1765
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

One of the most precise ritual expressions of this centrality is found in one of the rites of the Avapaho Sun Dance. In this dance their sacred wheel is placed against each of the four sides of a man's body. ... This particular symbol may be found among the crew in the three things they often paint around the sacred cottonwood tree at the center of their circular Sun Dance lodge. ... Some Indians tried something new and they surprised everybody by taking over the "modern weste...

• Word Count: 3640
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School