At the beginning, the Native Americans had very little ownership of anything. ... If there was a little description saying what the Native Americans were doing, there would be less confusion on what took place during that time period. ... The burial mounds are a big part in history for the Woodland Period. ... There were bigger towns and villages you could see in the back ground of the painting, and the bigger towns and villages were exactly what started to happen in the beginning of the Woodland Period. ... The technology for the Native Americans begins to grow with the help of the white man....

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Piquette has been around for two years, and they have a little chat, without actually having anything to talk about. ... They probably have a different and bigger respect for it, and are not so materialistic as the Europeans seem to be. ... When she becomes older, she moves to the big city. ... She finds herself an English man to marry. This is because she wants to fit in, and by marrying an English man, she hope she will become more accepted and gain some respect. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Lame Deer was a Sioux chief and medicine man who seduces us, the reader, to sit down and listen to him talk. ... He barely speaks English and has very little money compared to what Lame Deer has. ... When I wait, I kill a big rotlah." ... He goes on to call the white man arrogant when he says, "That terrible arrogance of the white man, making himself something more than God, more than nature, saying, I will let this animal live, because it makes money." ... "If you hunt big rabbit, look for big ears," Sanchez said. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The white man in this book is portrayed as an indiscriminate murderer and sadist. ... Little Crow knowing that America would want revenge attacked first. ... Next is Coshise, the man accused of stealing goods from Americans. ... Soon after is the battle of Little Big Horn. ... Dull Knife and Little Wolf led a group west but later split up. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Vikings appreciated every last resource big or small that the land could give them. ... Before long Leif spotted the man and noticed that the man looked very happy, almost elated. Leif asked the man " Wherefore art though so belated, foster-father mine, and astray from the others (10)?" ... "There was no frost there in the winters, and the grass withered but little. ... "We must put out the war-boards on both sides of the ship, and defend ourselves to the best of our ability, but offer little attack (13)." ...

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Sherman Alexie is Native American, and his stories expose one of America's dirty little secrets. ... I will analyze the short story, "Every Little Hurricane", taken from the anthology, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. ... When he sees "an old, [drunk] Indian man drowned in a mud puddle at the powwow" (Alexie, p 7) he understands that alcoholism is not his family's problem alone. ... His writing pulls the cover off of America's dirty little secret of what life is like growing up on the Reservation. ... Why not use Alexie's own words, &quo...

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• Has Bibliography
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Even though they had little control over their food supply, there survival was dependent on it. ... These climatic changes put together a big part of where these people lived. ... White man's diseases killed thousands of Indians. These Indians never tried to fight the white man. ... Many of the Indians were barefoot with little clothing. ...

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It didn't have a cover over it and it would have been dangerous for a little kid to be playing in the basement. ... They work great with children because these stories are shocking and a little scary. ... My dad says that Grandma's story is just a little exaggerated, but nonetheless we don't want to jinx ourselves. Our family has gotten so big that we can't all stay at the family home, so we spread out between campgrounds and hotels, but the house is always the central location. ... In Ceremony on pg. 94 Silko shows the effect that white man had on the Native American stori...

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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Rank 4: Women Women's struggle for equality among man has been a continuous struggle thought the 19th and 20th century. ... This was a big step for women because it showed that they could do more then just cook and clean. ... While the north was industrializing with railroads, businesses, and large cities, the south made little changes and did not advance as much as the north had done. ... This had a big effect on the cotton industry because of the mass amounts of slaves that had produced it in the past. ...

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• Grade Level: High School