The Indian removal act called for the relocation of all eastern tribes, across the Mississippi River. ... Children attending the schools were often administered cultural "shock treatments" (Lakota Woman, 1990). ... Indian Children arrived at the schools to begin a process of Americanization. The first step of assimilation was to cut the children's long hair. ... Many of the children attending these schools, as on the reservation suffered from health problems from European diseases. ...

• Word Count: 1959
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Kingsolver uses a structure that tells the narrative from three perspectives: Codi, in first person, tells her story of isolation from all but her sister; while the distance of Homer's third person narrative exemplifies his distance from his children, and his family community; and although Hallie is never met directly in the narrative her first person letters continue to develop a picture through images of the only member of the family who is connected to life, ironically while being the absent daughter and sister who is working out of the country in Nicaragua. ... It is not until she ...

• Word Count: 1765
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

And he wanted this guaranteed forever, for him, for his children, for their children, in perpetuity," (Au 74). ... He mentions the "magnificent rivers . . . which bear gold," and the, "many spices and vast mines of gold," (Columbus) etc. ...

• Word Count: 1689
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Even though most Native American tribes held prisoners of war captive, there were some circumstances in which growth of a tribe was threatened, resulting in the capturing of mostly women and children as sort of an "adoption" strategy (Davis). ... Benjamin Hawkins, who was the Superintendent of the tribes south of the Ohio River at the time, strongly and forcefully encouraged several southeastern tribes to adopt chattel slavery in order to have enough labor for their plantations and agricultural production, as part of their adaptation of European ways. ...

• Word Count: 2752
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They went through Indian villages ruthlessly attacking tribes, capturing their children and putting them to death. ... Many tribes in the East were bribed, coerced, or forced to move to reservations west of the Mississippi River, leading to incidents such as the Trail of Tears in the late 1830's. ...

• Word Count: 2993
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate