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…a mystery to the reader. “Fran knows about the divorce, but nothing else” 104. Throughout the story, she constantly battles within herself the life between an American and an Indian. She cannot choose one culture over the other, nor can she successfully clash…

…stretched from the Rocky mountains to the Mississippi. Here he laid troops to protect transcontinental railroad workers from the Indians who feared that the railroad would mean further encroachment on their territory. He also established military outposts…

…"Indian Camp" epitomize the basic difference between their writing styles. "Winter Dreams" begins, "Some of the caddies were poor as sin and lived in one-room houses with a neurasthenic cow in the front yard, but Dexter Green's father owned the second best…

…dreamed of ideal societies based on peace and morality." Bartolome de las Casas was one such humanist. Appalled by the unethical treatment and slaughter of the Indians in the New World by the Spanish conquistadors, he composed The Devastation of the Indies…

…in the making is a man named Leonard Peltier. He is known to the MTV generation as the subject of a Rage Against the Machine video. But to Native Americans, Peltier has long stood as symbol that there is no equitable treatment of American Indians in the American…

…, enemy soldiers demanded food and stay at the Secord homestead. The Niagara Peninsula became a hostile territory. Lieutenant James FitzGibbon's special force of fifty men and one hundred and fifty Indians were stationed at Fort George, the present-day…

…Louis Riel - Patriote or Traitor? Louis Riel was born in 1844. He was captured and executed by Canadian authorities in November 16, 1885. He was a leader who gave up his life and time to fight for the right of the Metis, Indians and the western…

…for a certain period. They soon grew weary of Britain and chose to declare their independence. The beginning of their turmoil began during the French and Indian War. Britain had passed a series of Navigation Acts. These acts were to forbid the colonists from…

…. The Spanish rigorously tried to convert the Indians and continued their search for silver and gold. England's initial quest for national superiority over Spain was added to its numerous motives for colonization, while France and Holland digressed the most from…

…”, Sharon tells a story of the racist Canadian Government. The setting of the play is in Vancouver and it takes place right after World War I. It’s about a group of 376 East Indian Immigrants who sail to Canada to start a new life, but are not excepted due…