The implementation of his business sense in a society that had not seen anything of the sort is the reason that he today is considered one of the founding fathers of "Big Business." ... Today we would consider this a crime; however, we look at Astor as an innovator for the time, and basically the architect of the first big corporation. When we consider big business, we don't usually look at it from a diplomatic perspective. ... When Astor died in 1848, he was said to have left a total of $40 million, a sum several times larger than any other American fortune of the day, and something to...

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Grassian further argues that Alexie was reclaiming the Blues music for the Native Americans as he suggests that the Blues were actually created by horses (whom Big Mom taught to sing) when after the slaughter of the horses "the song" [they sang] "sounded so pained and tortured that Big Mom could never have imagined it before the white men came" thus Grassian stating that "the blues originated with the colonization of the land and its people".3 The lyrics of the first song Reservation Blues (chapter one) also refers to economic and social disadvantages Native Amer...

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She had her two little cubs with her" (13). ... Eventually, she met a man, who was a shaman, and grew to love him. ... She messed with evil, laughed at the old woman's advice , and dressed like a man" (62). ... Fleur got herself into trouble at times, and once had to change into a pig to save herself from a fellow gambler, Lucy, who "pushed her against the big fence and the package of coins (she won) split, went clinking and jumping, winked against the wood. ... Fleur kills every man that saves her from drowning, men that were trying to help her, "by saving Fleur Pillager, those two m...

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In the nineteenth century, as white Americans proceeded to build and delineate their nation, they carried on a process they had started as colonists, settling a new world, and transforming its landscape, which had been modelled by Native Americans up to that time. Meanwhile, this lan...

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