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…Tom Whitecloud, the author of the short story Blue Winds Dancing, utilizes a fairly common type of structure to portray the journey of a young Indian man. Whitecloud set the events up in chronological order, although the action is stopped quite…

…Nothing has done more to perpetuate liberal myths about the Plains Indians than Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves, the beautifully done and ever politically correct film that was the Academy Awards 1991 "Best Picture". The historical inaccuracies…

…Stories of the frontier and Indian history have become popular topics of art, literature, music, and motion pictures. Most of these movies involving Indians portray them as a race of ignorant, thieving savages, who initiate the fighting, and deserve…

…American Views America is a place of freedom and independence. Our country is considered by most to be the “best” country in the world. America has not always been what it is now. Explorers, settlers, and Indians all affected the American continent…

…to center stage, it dragged with it the idea that the Canadian Constitution embodied some blurred or contradictive values. Jeannette Vivian Corbiere Lavell and Yvonne Bedard, both born as North American Indians and acting as respondents, were summoned to present…

…this new land and discover its vast and unknown mysteries, or did they simply want to exploit its inhabitants and greedily gather up as many riches as one could find? Right at the very beginning of the book Cabeza describes the capturing of four Indians and how…

…. In the beginning of John Dunbar’s journey, he encounters numerous problems in his initiation with the Indians. His heroic qualities start to appear when John encounters an Indian tribe for the first time. The Indians initially reject him until they realize that he…

…Spanish Plan for Colonization When the Spanish decided that they were going to colonize various parts of Texas they did not realize the task they had before them. The Spanish’s main goal was to convert the Indians into Christians or Spaniards…

…As the discovery of the “New World” progressed, large numbers of white men and women migrated to the North American continent, and profoundly altered Native American’s lives culturally and economically. Wherever they lived Indians discovered…

…(1) Introduction The word treaty could be defined in many ways. It is most likely to be defined as agreements made between two nations. But to the Indians, treaties were simply an inevitable agreement, which the whites requested. The madness started…