They have not seen a Native American before. ... They also needed the Natives for trading. When the need for Native American's help ended the Pilgrim's began to treat the Native Americans with less and less respect. ... Edward Winslow worked hard to achieve Massasoit's trust, but Edward Winslow's son, Josiah, destroyed the trust when he barged into Alexander's wigwam with pistol threatening him and trying to take him to court. ... The Pilgrims sometime took land from the Native Americans by taking advantage of the Native Americans. ...

• Word Count: 2493
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome disturbs more Native Americans than any other ethnic group. ... Adam is an adopted Native American, and his father is half Native American, which enables them to easily understand all the elements of this syndrome. ... Michael viewed his son as a normal, average boy. He assumed his son was just slower than other children, but always kept the idea that he was normal. ... Michael wanted only the best for his son, and put all efforts into trying to get Adam a good education. ...

• Word Count: 1555
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This idea occurs within Kumalo's family and his brother, sister, and son all choose to move. ... The natives "cry for more education, and more opportunity, and for the removal of the restrictions on native labor and enterprise." ... Ironically, the death of his son brings him to feel compassion for the native people. He changes his heart and instead of avenging his son's death, he chooses to help the natives. ... Even though Jarvis lost his son, he understands that "kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering." ...

• Word Count: 1586
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In Red Leaves Faulkner tells a story Native Americans who own slaves on their plantation. The group talks of the death of their chief and how his son was taking over. ... A lot of dialogue in this story is talking about the chief's son and the passing of gossip along to each other. The dialogue also gives clues about how they culturally live, not so much like Native Americans but more like white men, though the Native American's talk about both with distaste. ... In Red Leaves the Native American characters interested themselves in talking of the chief's son and his habits. ...

• Word Count: 1764
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The rising action contained all of the background information about her son Jimmie's death and the visit from the white doctors who came for her children. ... Her son, Jimmie, died while serving in the United States military, and his death greatly upset her. ... The white people eventually began to fear Ayah and the Native Americans. ... Ayah was a symbol of the Native American people for several reasons. ... At first Ayah, like the Native Americans, was afraid of the white people. ...

• Word Count: 1994
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

These groups include the Africans, Asians, native-Americans, and Hispanics. ... Although they are known as Native Americans as a whole there are many different tribes that make up this group called Natives. ... These Natives are very in touch with nature and their spiritual side. ... Women feel very welcome in this culture recognizing that they are a central part of the traditions and a that they are in fact equal to their husbands or sons. ... To Natives this is a great privilege in which only women have. ...

• Word Count: 1515
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Through European eyes the Native Americans knew nothing of how to live. ... They set up towns with Native self-rule, and gave the appointed guardians the power to control the land. ... With each effort to resist the Europeans" constant encroachment into Native lands, there was greater consequence to follow. ... With the Natives" knowledge of the land and skills in agriculture, Jamestown grew and became profitable very quickly. ... Powhatan's son led the tribe against them in a counter attack, which destroyed a third of the population of Jamestown. ...

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

The tale foreshadows Tayo's story of damnation from his Native American roots by his family and himself. ... Tayo's Auntie has always treated him differently to her own son Rocky, as a consequence of his mixed blood. ... Native American mythology is an integral aspect of Ceremony and it also plays a significant role in Animal Dreams. ... It is through Codi's love interest, Loyd, we see the importance of the Native American point of view in Animal Dreams. ... Kingsolver shows us the importance of Native American stories as they give a different interpretation of world, earth and...

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

The Native people were being forced off the land they had lived on for thousands of years, and forced to adopt they ways of the colonizers. ... In most of the Native American cultures, women were valued beings. ... A spirit that noticed she was lonely gave her three children; two sons and a daughter. ... So even though the Native women performed similar tasks to those of European and African women, they were highly valued and held much more power. ... As in the Native American culture, in most West African societies it was the women who dominated agriculture. ...

• Word Count: 2256
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Sherman Alexie is Native American, and his stories expose one of America's dirty little secrets. ... As the dominant Native American short story writer of today, he creates unique imagery through recurrent memories, visions and dream sequences. ... Firstly, he yearns for all Native Americans to keep their memories and heritage alive through the art of storytelling. Secondly, he communicates how modern Native Americans endure the assault of mainstream culture on their heritage, imagination and spirit. ... And it is this: The sons in this book really love and hate their fathers" (Alexi...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School