Alexie's first novel, Reservation Blues, was published in 1995 and is no exception to this. ... Within this novel Alexie manages to merge together the mythical and romanticized view of Native Americans (although Alexie "has been at pains to deflate just such romantic myths, whether steward of the earth, stoical warrior, shaman or savage") with a more realistic, and perhaps somewhat depressing, account of Native Americans regarding matters such as racism, religion, the commodification of Native American culture and life on the reservations including alcoholism and health service...

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Native American Voices The book of Genesis V.S. The Cherokee creation myth. In the book of Genesis there was a God that created the earth and heaven. On the other hand, in the Cherokee creation myth in the beginning there is only water and a beetle accidentally created earth. In the Cherokee creation myth the animals created the mountains, valleys, etc. ...

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Immigration: Mass Media Influences on the General American Population The mass media industry has influentially shaped American society's behavior on immigration into a strict systematic view that immigration is a necessary tool needed to strengthen the economy, stabilize cultural diversity, and exp...

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POCAHONTAS: Native American Stereotypes in a Disney Movie 1. Introduction In this paper, the animated Disney movie Pocahontas will be discussed. The film was directed by Eric Goldberg and Mike Gabriel, and released in 1995. We will particularly examine how Disney portrays the Native Americans in the movie and whether stereotypes are used. We will start by thoroughly discussing the history of Pocahontas, as it is told in history books and biographies. ...

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