The hummingbird myth is a continuous yet interrupted tale of a society who has been tricked into ignoring its own roots and has to make amends to the Mother Spirit before healing can begin. ... The tale foreshadows Tayo's story of damnation from his Native American roots by his family and himself. It is only his journey through the ceremony of purification that he connects with his roots and therefore begins to heal himself and his community. ...

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

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"....

• Word Count: 342
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Because of all of this harsh treatment to the indigenous cultures during the exploration of the Americas, many people with the native roots of the Americas still hold a grudge against other populations. ...

• Word Count: 592
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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 ...

• Word Count: 521
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As we know, English wild man has deep roots in English literature and popular culture and encompasses a remarkable variety of types-from fully human to almost animal, from essentially moral to irredeemably corrupt, which may all be the similarities to Caliban; therefore, the interpretations of Caliban are abundant and various. ... The scholars of the two countries tried to find their common intellectual roots, and the Anglo-American Caliban became one of their proofs of the intellectual community. ...

• Word Count: 2369
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Petitions for claims on tribe blood ties to the Golden Hills Paugussett Indians with ancestral roots dating back to the 1600's Bridgeport Connecticut area are in question by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. ...

• Word Count: 1339
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 928
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Since the discovery of the New World in 1492, each country has gone through some level of colonization by a European power and transition to its current state. During this period the regions have seen political, social, religious and economic transformations of various degrees. Nevertheless, many sc...

• Word Count: 2984
• Approx Pages: 12
• 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. Not only did the European sailors provide direct ocean routes to areas that had been in contact with Europe through more expensive and diffic...

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

"Pattern thinking is Aboriginal thinking. There is no big boss. Patterns are about belonging" (Stockton, 1995) 'Pattern thinking is 'Aboriginal way'; triangle thinking is 'Western way'. Patterns are about belonging. Nothing is separate from anything else. The land is not separate ...

• Word Count: 2069
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate