Conspiracy Of Pontiac
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A 5 page essay on the two volume book, Conspiracy of Pontiac, by Indian war historian Francis Parkman. The writer provides an informative & critical analysis covering Parkman's style, theme, and literary allusions. No additional sources cited.
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Paper Title: Conspiracy Of Pontiac

Contemporary and Historic Issues Confronting Native Americans
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A 6 page overview of the historic and contemporary issues confronting Native Americans. The author condenses these issues into three main categories: health, land and leadership. Background information is provided for each category and the reasons for its importance are emphasized in terms of statistics and historic and future applicability. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Paper Title: Contemporary and Historic Issues Confronting Native Americans

Contemporary Native American Concerns: Health, Sovereignty, and Leadership
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A 6 page discussion of the many problems facing contemporary Native Americans. Traces these problems back to the initial contact with the European people who invaded Native land. Asserts that everything from the ravages of disease on modern Native Americans to struggles over land rights and the right to independent government can be related to the demands and expectations of non-Native groups who now predominate North America. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Paper Title: Contemporary Native American Concerns: Health, Sovereignty, and Leadership

Contrasts in Native American and Euro-American Culture
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A 5 page overview of the various differences that have existed both historically and in contemporary times between these cultures. The author emphasizes the differences in societal structure, regard for natural resources, and religion. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Paper Title: Contrasts in Native American and Euro-American Culture

Crazy Horse and Cochise: Similarities and Contrasts
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A 6 page discussion of two of the most remembered Native American leaders of the nineteenth century. Emphasizes that Cochise and Crazy Horse Cochise and Crazy Horse differed both individually and culturally. Contrasts those differences while drawing parallels between the factors which incited each man to military action. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Paper Title: Crazy Horse and Cochise: Similarities and Contrasts

Cultural Conflict as Evidenced in Contemporary Native American Literature
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An 11 page discussion of cultural conflict as is evidenced in Thomas King’s “Green Grass, Running Water”, Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Ceremony”, Gerald Vizenor’s “The Heirs of Columbus”, and Sherman Alexie’s “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”. The author notes the underlying theme of the differences in the way the environment is viewed by Native Americans verses Non-Natives and suggests that in pre-contact cultures the villain in Native American stories took the form of witchcraft while in contemporary literature it takes the form of non-Natives. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Paper Title: Cultural Conflict as Evidenced in Contemporary Native American Literature

Cultural Differences and Similarities: The Aztec, Inca and Spanish
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A 3 page comparison of the cultures of each of these three groups. The time of the Spanish conquest of the New World was a difficult one for all concerned. Cultural differences accounted for the majority of the turmoil which erupted. The Inca and the Aztec were some of the first to suffer as a result of this turmoil. Their cultures were as different from the Spanish as night and day. At the same time, however, the precepts driving these three very distinct cultures were essentially the same as were their governmental structures. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Paper Title: Cultural Differences and Similarities: The Aztec, Inca and Spanish

Cultural Interactions in the Time of the Revolutionary War
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A 4 page consideration of the many gains that were made in interactions between whites, blacks, and Native Americans during this critical time period in American history. While there were great losses, both in terms of culture and in terms of basic rights such as freedom and property ownership, there were also many gains. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Paper Title: Cultural Interactions in the Time of the Revolutionary War

Differing Experiences Between Native Americans in the East and Those in the West Resulting From Contact with the Europeans
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A 5 page discussion of the changes which occurred in Native American cultures in the Eastern Woodlands and the West after the arrival of the European invaders to their lands. Discusses the forced relocation of Eastern tribes to western reservations despite their incorporation of many aspects of European culture, the cultural transformations of the Plains tribes from an agrarian lifestyle to the mounted hunters of the Plains, and their eventual confinement to the reservations. Identifies the root cause of the cultural experiences in the East and the West as European greed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Paper Title: Differing Experiences Between Native Americans in the East and Those in the West Resulting From Contact with the Europeans

Early European/Native American Interactions: From Columbus to Cortez, and Aztec Impressions
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A 4 page overview of the early interactions between Europeans and Native Americans. The author identifies the overriding goal of Spanish colonization as greed and relates the fact that that goal determined the manner the Spanish regarded and treated the indigenous inhabitants of the so-called "New World" as well as the way these people regarded the Spanish. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Paper Title: Early European/Native American Interactions: From Columbus to Cortez, and Aztec Impressions

Economic and Cultural Transformation Among the Morongo and Viejas Tribes
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A 4 page discussion of the benefits gaming has reaped for these Native Americans. The author contend that gaming is critical in self determination for these people. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Paper Title: Economic and Cultural Transformation Among the Morongo and Viejas Tribes

Ecotourism and Archaeotourism: Trends in U.S. Tourism
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An 11 page examination of the growing need for tourist activities which not only improve an area's economy but also serve to protect sensitive environmental areas and cultural sites. Presents statistics on U.S. tourism and dispels the societal misconceptions of ecotourism and Archaeotourism. Emphasizes these activities can have an immediate and lasting effect on our nation's varied economics and will go a long way toward carrying our precious environmental and cultural resources successfully into the next century. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Paper Title: Ecotourism and Archaeotourism: Trends in U.S. Tourism

End-of-Life Issues
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This 3 page paper uses a web site to help explore how Native Americans may choose to face end-of-life issues. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Paper Title: End-of-Life Issues

English Colonists Perceptions and Beliefs as Applied to Native Americans
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A 7 page overview of early colonial interactions with Native Americans. The manner in which European colonists viewed the Native Americans whose lands they invaded varied both according to geography and according to time. The Puritans as a whole would proclaim their belief that all people were equal before God. Puritan proclamation and act, however, were two different things. In practice, race, class, and literacy were salient issues.
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Paper Title: English Colonists Perceptions and Beliefs as Applied to Native Americans

Environmental Contamination on Navajo and Hopi Land
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A 6 page review of the problems these people are experiencing with toxic waste resulting from the dumping of radioactive material and the environmental destruction that has occurred as a result of extensive coal mining. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Paper Title: Environmental Contamination on Navajo and Hopi Land

Eskimo Essays
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A 10 page paper discussing Fineup-Riordin's book from an ethnographic standpoint. Discusses the Yup'ik Eskimos from the various facets of their lifestyles: religious, mythological, and warring. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Paper Title: Eskimo Essays

Ethnic Essays
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A 5 page contrast and comparison of two essays dealing with ethnic issues. The essays are "Crimes Against Humanity" by Ward Churchill and "For the Indians No thanksgiving" by Michael Dorris. Both of these essays are incredibly powerful, and both speak of the conditions involving Native Americans. No additional sources cited.
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Paper Title: Ethnic Essays

European Diseases and Aboriginal People
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A 9 page paper which examines the affects of European diseases upon aboriginal people of the world. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Paper Title: European Diseases and Aboriginal People

European Expansionism: Intercultural Interactions Produced By War And Disease
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5 pages in length. The writer discusses how European expansionism culminated in war and disease for the Native Americans. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Paper Title: European Expansionism: Intercultural Interactions Produced By War And Disease

European Misperceptions and Stereotypes: Racism in Native American Society
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A 5 page discussion of the reasons behind the racism which has existed in regard to Native Americans for the last five hundred years. Identifies Europeans misperceptions and stereotypes regarding Native American culture as being at the root of this racism. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Paper Title: European Misperceptions and Stereotypes: Racism in Native American Society

Eve Ball/Indeh: An Apache Odyssey
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A 6 page book review that examines Eve Ball's text of the words of the patriarch of the Mescalero Apache, Ace Daklugie, son of Juh, nephew of Geronimo, the story that Daklugie related to Ball before his death in 1955 is an eye-opening experience to anyone who has never considered history from a Native American perspective. No additional sources cited.
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Paper Title: Eve Ball/Indeh: An Apache Odyssey

Factors Leading Up to the Pequot/English War of 1637
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An 8 page discussion of the war between the English and the Native American group known as the Pequot. Contends that the reasons behind this war were really quite simplistic. The first was the English desire for the land which the Pequot controlled. Equally important, however, was the English view of themselves as superior to the Native American people. The English war with the Pequot was indeed as much a reflection of the English intent to send a message of their military and cultural superiority to all Native Americans, people that they viewed as ungodly and savage creatures, and their desire to gain the resources of those people for their own colonists as it was any other factor. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Paper Title: Factors Leading Up to the Pequot/English War of 1637

Federal Indian Policy
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A 3 page paper which traces the evolution of federal Indian policy from Washington through Jackson. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Paper Title: Federal Indian Policy

First Generation Of Chinese-American, Japanese-American And Indian-American
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6 pages in length. The writer discusses the historic aspects of first generation presence including how, when and why they arrived, what they did for a living and how America has been both a blessing and a curse to them. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Paper Title: First Generation Of Chinese-American, Japanese-American And Indian-American

Forced Cultural Assimilation As Seen Through The Eyes of Three American Authors
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A 5 page overview of the problems which are inherrent in with policies of forced cultural assimilation. The author reviews Doris Goodwin’s “Wait Till Next Year”, Sherman Alexie’s “Indian Killer” and Mary Patillo-Mcoy’s “Black Picket Fences”, to provide a basis for the argument that forced assimilation causes more problems in American society than it offers solutions. No additional sources are listed.
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Paper Title: Forced Cultural Assimilation As Seen Through The Eyes of Three American Authors

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