Thomas is a goofy young man who lost both his parents in a fire at a very young age. ... ``A big truck just went by,'' he announces. ... ``A big truck just went by,'' he announces. ... That would be a big concession for Victor, who is tall and silent and has never much liked the skinny, talkative Thomas. ... Victor is the bigger and sterner of the two, with Thomas as his screwball sidekick. ...

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In the Wichita Indian story "Coyote Challenges Never-Grows-Larger- translated by Jane Archer, the coyote sees a tiny snake sunning himself on a rock and begins to taunt and tease the little snake about how small he is. The coyote then begins to boast about how large he is and how much larger his teeth are than the little snake's teeth. ... Coyote snarled to reveal big, sharp teeth. ... Next the little snake bit the coyote and they both walked in opposite directions to see who was harmed the most. ... In Aesop's "The Hen and the Fox-, which is a European oral story, a wryly litt...

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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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(Yenne 1984) These Indians have been described over many, many years as savages whom rape, murder and mutilate the white man. ... (Yenne 1984) These Indians have been described over many, many years as savages whom rape, murder and mutilate the white man. ... These diseases also had grave impact on the North American Indian society: the elders, storytellers and medicine man were the one most susceptible to the diseases. ... Unfortunately for the North American Indians they became dependent on the "white man" goods and services and regularly purchased goods on credit e...

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Amongst the Chinese, Japanese, Europeans, etc. and other immigrants, the East Indians represent a big group of those who want to be part of the "American culture". The East Indians, who came to America, were mostly spread out in little groups up and down the West Coast (Pavri 56). ... One day a drunken white man came out of a bar and motioned to me saying, 'Come here, slave!' I said I was no slave man. ... To which the man replied, "Yes, we drink our mother's milk also, but we do not eat her! ...

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In the Cherokee man came after the animals. There were a man and a woman. ... The animals created diseases to punish the man. ... In the Cherokee creation myth everything and everybody created the world; not one Supreme Being but all little things. ... And also the man is not the center of interest in the creation myth. ...

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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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When European settlers came to the new world hoping to escape religious persecution, amass great wealth, or escape the poverty they experienced in their home countries. They came into contact with a race of people completely alien to them. Likewise, the arrival of the Dutch in Africa sent out shoc...

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