Academic papers on Native Indian Studies

A 4 page review of the book by Gary Clayton Anderson. The author details the contradictions which are inherent in the historical pronouncement of the Lakota people as a "nation". Anderson's thesis is that the final recognition of the Lakota as a...
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NATIVE AMERICAN TREATMENT BY THE THREE MAJOR IMPERIAL POWERS
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.
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Native American v. White Values
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...
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New Zealand: Trouble in Paradise?
A 3 page discussion of the problems New Zealand has encountered in balancing the needs of all of her people. The indigenous peoples of New Zealand, in particular, represent a multitude of issues that must be addressed. The author of this paper...
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Greed: The Underlying Motivation for European/Native American Interaction
A 5 page consideration of the motivations that characterized the early interactions between Native Americans and the Europeans that invaded their shores. European peoples not only took advantage of Native Americans but committed one atrocity after...
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Walt Whitman's View of Native Americans:
This 4 page paper examines the perspective of Walt Whitman regarding Native Americans as evidenced through his poetry. This paper examines "Song of Myself" specifically in order to illustrate the compassion and respect that Whitman had for the...
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SHERMAN ALEXIE
This 6 page paper discusses the life and works of Sherman Alexie. Works specifically discussed include Indian Killer, Reservation Blues, and I would Steal Horses. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Issues in Native America: Land, Sovereignty, and Individual Independence
A 5 page summary of the problems that have confronted Native Americans in their relations with the U.S. government. The author explores these issues and discusses their varying depiction in Native, mainstream, and scholarly publications. ...
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Military Campaigns Against Plains Indians: Indian Scouts and Little Big Horn
A 4 page overview of the military campaign that ended in catastrophe at Little Big Horn. Custer's troops were not exclusively white. There were, in fact, thirty-three Crow Indians that served as scouts under Custer. Bibliography lists 3...
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Governmental Treaties and Policies Targeting Native Americans 1830-1890
A 3 page overview of a few of the treaties and policies that targeted Native Americans in this time period. The author contends that these treaties and policies were varied yet almost all served to the detriment of the indigenous peoples and to the...
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"No Idle Past: Uses Of History In The 1830 Indian Removal Debates"
A 4 page review of the Fall 2000 article by Jason Meyers summarizing the political discord surrounding the Trail of Tears, the nineteenth century forced removal of the Cherokee people from their traditional land in the state of Georgia. No...
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Native American Communication
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...
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Ward Churchill's "Perversions of Justice"
A 6 page paper which explains and analyzes Ward Churchill's "Perversions of Justice." Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Interaction Between European American And Native American Cultures
4 pages in length. Given the proper circumstances, traditional Native American cultures could never have co-existed alongside European American cultures, inasmuch as neither one even remotely upheld the same attributes. The Native Americans lived...
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The Black Hills: The Oglala Sioux Land Claim
A 3 page consideration of the contras that has existed between the Oglala Sioux's regard for the Black Hills and the U.S. government's regard for the region. The Black Hills of South Dakota are a sacred place for the Oglala Sioux. They are also...
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