I recall this same viewpoint when the French court, in 2013, made a determination for approving the auction for several Hopi/Zuni kachina masks in Paris. ... Non-Natives in this film express the same rhetoric as the French court did, and continue to desecrate and disrespect Indigenous Cultural and Sacred sites and properties through their recreational or business activities. ... Each Indigenous Native must decide what information about their history, ceremonies, and cultural sites and properties should be shared for their protection. ... Although it was difficult for some of our tribal member...

• Word Count: 1349
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Conflict is the epicenter of history. ... Conflict is what creates and annihilates the different entities that exist in the world throughout history. ... In other circumstances the Native Americans actually aided the colonial Americans in other conflicts such as the French and Indian War. ... Usually in history, as in this case, conflicts as large as wars generate from a plethora of smaller conflicts all built together. ... The theme of conflict is almost so common throughout history that it is under-appreciated, we do not realize how prevalent it is today as well as Stone Age times. ...

• Word Count: 904
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The forced integration of European culture into the lives of Native Americans marked the beginning of a trend that could be traced through history to the present day. ... The Huron agreed to cut the French into the fur trade for assistance in attacking the Iroquois. ... Unfortunately a critical problem arose among the French and the Huron. By 1638 there were many French missionaries present in Huron villages preaching Christianity. ... The Huron plead with the French for protection, and were granted it on the condition that they convert. ...

• Word Count: 1610
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In The Unredeemed Captive, John Demos illustrates the complexities of the relationships among the puritan settlers of New England, the Roman-Catholic French of New France (currently parts of Canada), and the Native Americans both nations forcefully relocated. ... He or she will either be valued as a pay off, or assimilated into Native or French Culture. ... When reconstructing the life of Eunice in Kahnawake, he took general observations from "relations" to Jesuit superiors in France as well as Priest Joseph Francois Lafitau's study Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquains Comparees aux Moeurs d...

• Word Count: 1326
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book begins innocently enough, with an introduction that tells us that the setting is the third year of the French and Indian War. ... English and French act as Cooper's "fallen languages". ... Cooper believes that Native American languages favor the sound of silence, the kind of silence looked down upon in disdain by French and English languages. ... Western myths, rodeos, and quick-draw duels these relics of an age that barely existed are so vivid for some readers, one must question the extent to which society has control over history and reality. ... Fenimore Cooper's contrib...

• Word Count: 1482
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A popular belief throughout American history is that scalping was introduced by Native Americans who scalped white Europeans trying to seize their native land. ... "The French offered to furnish us with instruments of every kind and sharp knives to take the skins of their enemies heads." ... (Axtell,461) The third element involved the history of the word "scalp" in Europe. ...

• Word Count: 701
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These tribal traditions represent a rich and varied cultural history. ... Education has been a primary tool in the cultural genocide, or "assimilation," of Native Americans throughout most of America's history. ... The Mohawk tribe wants to be included in society along with the French in Quebec and the English of Canada. ...

• Word Count: 822
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A well advertised place, Pennsylvania distributed pamphlets in English, Dutch, French and German, causing many people to migrate to Pennsylvania. ... The treatment of blacks has gone down in history as the most despicable acts on humanity. ... The Indians, throughout history have faced intolerance as well, not only were they driven from their homeland, but they were persecuted because of their resistance to leave their ideology of paganism. ...

• Word Count: 1247
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These views that the first settlers had of the Native Americans influenced the way that many people categorized Native Americans throughout history. ... It would be comparable to someone calling Germans, French, and English all only just Europeans denying them of their own individualities. ...

• Word Count: 2351
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By examining the issues such as race, religion, and gender between minority groups, one can better understand the history of United States territorial expansion. ... The West was not only a destiny of economic opportunity, but also an occasion for the conversion of residents such as French settlers of Canada and the Mississippi River Valley, as well as Mexicans (Greenberg 69). ... By analyzing these issues and complications concerning race, religion, and gender, one can better appreciate the history of American expansion and Manifest Destiny....

• Word Count: 1393
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout the formation of our current political system, the expectations of the American people towards their representatives have undergone a drastic change between the time of our founding and the election of the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson in 1828. James Madison had p...

• Word Count: 1680
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

BRINGING OF SLAVERY The European navigations of the fifteenth century in the Atlantic pioneered a new and virtually unprecedented chapter in human history. ... Some journeys took about a month while those undertaken by British and French ships stretched up to three months. ...

• Word Count: 1449
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate