The Puritan Perspective and the Unredeemed Captive
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This 4 page paper considers the views of Eunice William's father and his unsuccessful attempts to redeem his daughter after her capture at the hands of Mohawk Indians. This paper considers the way in which the Reverend William's behavior reflected his staunchly puritan ideals and his desire to live a puritan life. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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The Relationship Between Form and Content within N. Scott Momaday’s Works “House Made of Dawn” and “The Way to Rainy Mountain”
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This is a 6 page paper discussing form and content in works of N. Scott Momaday. N. Scott Momaday, a Native American writer who first won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 has a unique presentation within his works. In “House Made of Dawn” (1968) Momaday relates the story of Abel, a young Jemez Pueblo Indian returning from World War II and who goes about a journey of self-discovery in which Momaday intermingles Abel’s imaginative thoughts, mythical stories and reality throughout. In “The Way to Rainy Mountain” (1969) an autobiographical collection, Momaday recounts his own journey back to Rainy Mountain through a series of poems, legends, drawings and historical facts about the Kiowa Indians. In both works, Momaday uses a fragmented format which reflects the fragmentation of the content which is occurring within the central characters. This fragmentation gradually comes together by the end of each work to present the reader and the characters with a sense of the “whole” person used to describe Abel and Momaday in their journeys of return and self-discovery. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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The Relationship Between Landscape and Mythology Among the Hopi
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A 5 page discussion of Hopi mythology as it related to landscape and environment. The Hopi myth of how they are charged with caring for the fourth world is related and a discussion is provided as to how landscape serves as an important in such myths. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Relationship Between Shamanism and Psychotherapy
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This 5 page paper relates the two worlds that, as it turns out, are not so dissimilar. Jung's study of Shamanism is explored. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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The Role Of Native Americans And African Americans In The Post-Revolutionary Period
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2.5 pages in length. The writer discusses the cultural injustices imposed upon the Native Americans and African Americans in post-revolutionary America. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Role of Natural Selection in the Australian Aborigine
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5 pages. This report explains the biological characteristics of the Australian Aborigines and how they came to have these certain identifying characteristics based on the role of natural selection. The report thoroughly explains just what natural selection means and how it is derived. The Australian Aborigine peoples are described as to their identifying characteristics in order to consider the population that is being studied. It is also shown herein that the traits that are inherent to the Aborigines were in fact produced by natural selection. The summation of the report considers what the most apparent traits are and how these traits were produced through the process of biological natural selection. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Shoshone: Subsistence and Culture
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A 5 page discussion of the Shoshone, the indigenous inhabitants of the Great Basin region of the American West. Provides extensive details of their precontact subsistence patterns and ceremonial activity. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Struggle for Identity in Both Leslie Silko’s “Ceremony” and Louise Erdrich’s “Love Medicine”
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This 7 page report discusses the struggle for identity among modern Native American characters in two separate novels. For a people who never questioned who they were or their role in the natural order of life and their place in the world, such an effort becomes one in which cultures clash and the primary characters are forced to determine who they are in the context of their traditional world and the dominant culture of modern America. Louise Erdrich’s “Love Medicine” portrays the results of cultural devastation as well as personal injury and pain, it also shows a way back to health and contentment. Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Ceremony” offers a view that a person must deal with the fact that his body seems to be little more than nothing in the larger, pre-existing, and ceremonial patterns of his people. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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The Taino Indians: History, Material Culture and Spanish Impact
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A 16 page overview of the culture of the Taino (Arawak) Indians, the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas who first came into contact with Columbus. The author utilizes both the archaeological and the written record to relate the history and material culture of these people. Emphasizes the importance of the findings at two archaeological sites, Los Buchillones and Manantial se la Aleta in understanding both the lifeways and the ultimate downfall of the Taino people. Concludes that while the Taino were not totally decimated, their are a few who claim to be survivors, Taino culture is forever lost. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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The Universal Pattern of Stickball: From the Indigenous Inhabitants of the Americas to the Europeans who Invaded Their Lands
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An 11 page history of the indigenous Native American “game” of stickball and the evolution of this sport to the modern version we know today as lacrosse. Emphasizes the spiritual and ceremonial aspects of the game, noting that in many cases it was used as a means of preparing the people for war. It would come to have a considerable impact on non-Natives as well. Contends that on close examination it becomes apparent that there is a universal pattern in the game of lacrosse or stickball which extends throughout the various cultures and peoples who have engaged in it. This is true in historical times between peoples such as the Cherokee and Iroquois but this universal pattern extends much further as well. It extends in fact from the indigenous peoples who inhabited this continent prior to the arrival of the Europeans who invaded their lands all the way to contemporary times. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Thomas King/Medicine River
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A 3 page essay that examines the basic theme of community in King's novel, Medicine River. The main story line in Thomas King's Medicine River (1989) concerns the efforts of the protagonist, Will, a Blackfoot bachelor and photographer. A great deal of the novel, which relates an intricately woven story about belonging and it means to come home, deals with what it means to be part of a community. No additional sources cited.
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Thomas Whitecloud's Blue Winds Dancing
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Blue Winds Dancing is an autobiographical account of a young man's journey into the world of cultural polarities. This 5 page paper argues that the value of the story can be found in the questioning of social orientation, the resolution of the conflict and the process that the young man takes in determining his own place within the cultural context of self definition. No additional sources are listed.
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