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…and it makes people yearn to learn more about the Indian culture. Some examples of Indian culture are how people are categorized. The upper-class people are called sahibs. Another interesting term is babu. This word means an educated native person speaking…

…Living Two Lives “My heart soars like a hawk”. Little Big Man was a man of many traits, of many backgrounds. At a young age his life as he knew it came a drastic halt when he and his family we attacked by Indians. He was drug from the tattered wagon…

…the meanings of the past to constitute his present being. The heritage he is born in and bred is of India and England. His father Seepersad, a second generation East Indian West Indian with a failed literary career, exerts tremendous influence upon…

…Benjamin Disraeli officially proclaimed Queen Victoria empress of India in 1876. The alien British government was merely concerned with profits, not the greater well being of the Indian nation-state. Secondly, even if Indian identity were to be discussed…

…defeated. These actions led to the military gaining a great deal of strength in Guatemala. In the highlands of Guatemala there were a good number of Indian cultures, which were settled in the area. They farmed what they could and were used as labor…

…In the first volume of the trilogy, Celestine, there were many positive and negative influences in the life of Celestine. The Indian Department discouraged Celestine in many ways. Father Victor Gaudet also played an important role in her life. Lastly…

…is about finding your self identity and where you belong through different life experiences and situations. From John Williams being held captive, and going back to Puritanism when released to Eunice whom stayed with the Indians her whole life, the book shows…

…        Follow the River, written by James Alexander Thom, was based on the capture of Mary Draper Ingles by a group of Shawnee Indians and the escape that followed her captivity. It was a somewhat accurate account of the events that may have…

…experience but was the most real depiction of Indian life that I have come across; much more so than "Dances with Wolves", which portrays life as a much easier, happier attitude. Indians had formerly lived a secluded life from the Europeans. A life…

…The history of race relations and labor from the Reconstruction to the 1890’s involves many different ethnic groups. Some of these groups were African Americans, Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, American Indians, and the Irish. White Americans believe…