Native American Acculturation & How it Affects Educational Achievement
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A 9 page exploration of cultural obstacles which face many Native Americans on their moving from the reservations into the dominant white culture and how these obstacles influence educational performance. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Natived.wps
Paper Title: Native American Acculturation & How it Affects Educational Achievement

Native American Beliefs: Iroquois and Hopi
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A 6 page paper which examines the beliefs of the Iroquois and the Hopi Native American tribes. Physical environment and beliefs is the focus of the paper. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: RAirhop.rtf
Paper Title: Native American Beliefs: Iroquois and Hopi

Native American Casinos: An Interesting Impact on the U.S, Economic System
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A 4 page consideration of the economic impacts of Native American gambling casinos. Using the example of the Mississippi Choctaw the author illustrates that not only have the Choctaw prospered from their casino, so has the U.S. economic system. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PPnaCas2.rtf
Paper Title: Native American Casinos: An Interesting Impact on the U.S, Economic System

Native American Communication
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An 8 page paper discussing Native Americans' communication through songs, dance, art, clothing, hair styles, face paintings, totems" and other means. Drum calls and smoke signals also were used by Plains groups, where there were no forests to obscure sight and the travel of sound. A few of the methods of communications among Native American groups are clothing, divination, drums, dance and oral histories, which are discussed in this paper. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: KSindianComm.rtf
Paper Title: Native American Communication

Native American Involvement and Effectiveness in the Treaty Making Process
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A 7 page discussion of the degree of involvement of Native Americans in the drafting and implementation of treaties. Contends that even those groups who played the largest role in the treaty making process were essentially ineffective in terms of avoiding the final deleterious impact to the people and their land which so characterized Native verses non-Native interaction. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PPnaTrty.wps
Paper Title: Native American Involvement and Effectiveness in the Treaty Making Process

Native American Languages: Diversity, Cultural Relativity, and the Need for Perpetuation
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A 4 page discussion of the importance of Native American languages. This paper reviews the article by William L. Leap titled "American Indian Languages". Emphasis is placed on Leap's points about the intimacy which exists between language and culture. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: PPnaLng.rtf
Paper Title: Native American Languages: Diversity, Cultural Relativity, and the Need for Perpetuation

Native American Leadership and the Struggle to Preserve Political and Cultural Autonomy: Pontiac, Tecumseh and Handsome Lake
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A 6 page overview of the different Native American approaches launched in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in response to white invasion into Indian lands. The author emphasizes the contrast which existed between these three great leaders. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PPnaLead.rtf
Paper Title: Native American Leadership and the Struggle to Preserve Political and Cultural Autonomy: Pontiac, Tecumseh and Handsome Lake

Native American Marriage Customs
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5 pages in length. Native American culture revolves around spirituality and religion; therefore, it is not surprising to find that their strong religious beliefs had a great influence upon how their social structure – inclusive of marriage customs – were established. Bibliography lists 5 sources. The writer discusses past and present Native American marriage customs.
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Paper Title: Native American Marriage Customs

Native American Oral Tradition
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A 7 page research paper/essay that offers a close reading of a passage from Polingaysi Qoyawayma's autobiography No Turning Back. The writer discusses a quoted passage in detail and discusses it, drawing on a secondary source. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khpolqoy.rtf
Paper Title: Native American Oral Tradition

Native American Plight as Revealed Through Helen Hunt Jackson’s “Ramona”
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A 5 page review of this fictional novel by one of the most notable American authors of the nineteenth century. This paper reviews the issues surrounding Native American land and their relationship with the United States government which grounded Jackson’s novel. Where Jackson failed to raise attention to the plight of the Native American with the factual “Century of Dishonor”, she succeeded in the fictional love story “Ramona”. The novel is, in fact, an outstanding example of the use of fiction to effect political change. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPramona.rtf
Paper Title: Native American Plight as Revealed Through Helen Hunt Jackson’s “Ramona”

Native American Roles and Values
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A 5 page discussion of the changing roles and values in Native America. Distinguishes between the traditional roles of women, men, and children and the stereotypical views of these roles. Asserts that in many ways contemporary Native Americans are no different than "mainstream" America in terms of their roles and values. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Paper Title: Native American Roles and Values

NATIVE AMERICAN TREATMENT BY THE THREE MAJOR IMPERIAL POWERS
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This 10 page paper discusses the treatment of the Native Americans in North America by the imperial powers: Spain, France, England and American Colonists. Views of Francis Parkman examined. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MBparkman.rtf
Paper Title: NATIVE AMERICAN TREATMENT BY THE THREE MAJOR IMPERIAL POWERS

Native American Uniformity in an Ecological World View?: A Polemic Approach to Demonstrating or Refuting the Validity of a Popular Perception
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A 15 page discussion of the popular perception that Native Americans exhibit a uniform ecological world view. Presents supporting and detracting arguments for this view. Notes first that the sheer diversity of Native American cultures and individuals would make it unlikely that such a uniformity in view exists. The author then points out demonstrated differences in the way that Native Americans interact with their environment as opposed to the way those of European backgrounds interact with theirs, differences which would appear to support the contention of a uniform ecological world view among Native Americans. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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Paper Title: Native American Uniformity in an Ecological World View?: A Polemic Approach to Demonstrating or Refuting the Validity of a Popular Perception

Native American v. White Values
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A 3 page research paper that examines the differences between Native American and European American values. The writer looks specifically at the text of James Welsh's novel Fools Crow and a collection of original documented edited by Milner, et al. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khnavea.rtf
Paper Title: Native American v. White Values

Native American Water Rights: Direct and Indirect Impacts
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A 10 page overview of the issues surrounding Native American water rights. Although water rights are not always mentioned in historic treaties, the Supreme Court ruled in 1908 that by establishing Native American reservations Congress implied and reserved the priority water rights necessary for present and future use. This paper provides an overview of the current impacts to those rights concentrating on the impacts of damming and mining. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
Filename: PPnaWatr.rtf
Paper Title: Native American Water Rights: Direct and Indirect Impacts

Native American Women’s Roles in Religion
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A 12 page paper examining the realities of Native existence, as opposed to the view of largely white male anthropologists and historians have taken over the years. Native women were intensely involved in their tribes’ religions, as well as in nearly every other aspect of their societies. Women’s involvement had less to do with gender-based division of labor than it did the Native view of the nature of life. Everything is connected, everything has a purpose. Men’s roles were no more important than women’s, only different. Each sex shared responsibility for their people’s survival, and each shared in the observances and ritual of their religions. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: KSindWomRel.rtf
Paper Title: Native American Women’s Roles in Religion

Native Americans
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This 10 page paper begins with a brief historical overview of Native American Indians and some of the acts of oppression committed against them. Some statistical data are included in the descriptions and discussions of the culture. The types of Native American social issues a social worker might encounter when working with this population are identified and the need for cultural competence is discussed. The writer also comments on what areas need further research and the ethical principles that must be followed in such research. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: PGntvam6.rtf
Paper Title: Native Americans

Native Americans and Euro-Americans
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A 5 page paper which examines the differences between Native Americans and Euro-Americans. The paper also examines solutions to any problems. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: RAnaeua.rtf
Paper Title: Native Americans and Euro-Americans

Native Americans and Government Policies
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A 5 page exploration of how Native Americans fared in the face of policies imposed on them by the government that stole their land. This paper contends that regardless of the degree of Native American involvement with government policies, Native Americans consistently were at a disadvantage. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PPnaTrty3.rtf
Paper Title: Native Americans and Government Policies

Native Americans And Health Care
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A 5 page discussion of the relevance of traditional Native American cultural dictates to the effectiveness of health care professionals. Discusses the importance of recognizing traditional cultural dictates and being both receptive to those dictates and willing to modify ones approaches in consideration of them. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: NAnurse.wps
Paper Title: Native Americans And Health Care

Native Americans in the 19th Century
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A 5 page paper which examines the perspectives and conditions of the Native Americans during the last half of the 19th century. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RAnat19.rtf
Paper Title: Native Americans in the 19th Century

Native Americans' Unsuccessful Resistance
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A 5 page paper which discusses why Native Americans were unsuccessful at resisting the colonization efforts of the Europeans. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RAnatvres.wps
Paper Title: Native Americans' Unsuccessful Resistance

Native Americans: Social Status and Social Group Interaction
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A 5 page overview of Native American social interactions and the factors influencing those interactions. The author emphasizes that not only is the topic of Native American culture multifaceted in terms of the number of cultures which it encompasses but so is the temporal nature of that culture. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PPnaSoc.rtf
Paper Title: Native Americans: Social Status and Social Group Interaction

Native Americans: The Relationships Among Knowledge, Literature And History
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8 pages in length. The writer provides two smaller essays on 1) Native American stereotyping and 2) the difference between history and literature. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TLCNatAmLit.rtf
Paper Title: Native Americans: The Relationships Among Knowledge, Literature And History

Native Indian Life & Survival During the Early Colonial Era
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A 3 page article review in which the writer examines an author's discussion of the White men who first came to America and failed miserably at imitating Native Indian lifestyles and wound up dying from cold winters, malnutrition, etc;-- Simply because they tried to do things their "own way"-- and not follow the example of those who had already lived there successfully for so many centuries. Although the article itself is no longer available, the essay provides excellent analysis and makes for worthwhile reading on the subject. No Bibliography.
Filename: Natives.wps
Paper Title: Native Indian Life & Survival During the Early Colonial Era

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