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…opts for the frontier. His increasing loneliness drives him to seek solace with the neighboring Indian tribe. Gradually he is accepted as a member of the tribe, which in the America of the Civil War (1861-64) is seen as desertion. In order to spare the tribe…

…of our childhood...we bid farewell to it and all we hold dear." This is the way that Cherokee Vice Chief Charles Hicks described, in 1838, the emotions that must have been felt after the mistreatment and the abuse that was wrought upon the Cherokee Indians…

…destruction of the American Indians is still felt today in some ways.         Whites coming to the United States from Europe at first tried to compromise with Indians. This can be seen in such acts as the Fort Laramie treaty which established tribal…

…Essay talks about cultural misunderstandings in the book "A Passage to India" by E.M. Forster between the British and the Indians. Some sentences don't read well, but overall clear and easy to read. Cultural Misunderstanding In his novel…

…of alcohol in American Indian tribes, the reasons for drinking are somewhat different than most. Before the white man came over to the new world, the Indian had no prior knowledge to the use of alcohol, except for the Papago, and Apache tribes. This new drink…

…of our childhood…we bid farewell to it and all we hold dear." This is the way that Cherokee Vice Chief Charles Hicks described, in 1838, the emotions that must have been felt after the mistreatment and the abuse that was brought upon the Cherokee Indians…

…Mohandus Karamchand Gandhi Mohandus Karamchand Gandhi was a major figure in Indian history. He was best known for his policy of passive resistance and civil disobedience against unjust laws set by the British government. He…

…to bridge cultural gulfs. In many instances, the way in which language is used plays a great role in the miscommunication between the English and the Indians, as well as among people of the same culture. This is exemplified in the way in which people use the same…

…of the dead would soon join the world of the living to create a world in which the Indian could live in the old ways with plentiful game around them.(Davis,74) He also said that a wave of new soil would cover the earth while burring the white man leaving the earth…

…“Three Dirges”, by Marshall Bennett Connelly, it put me in the mind of how people treated the North American Indians in the 1800’s and 1900’s. Imagine this, you One is are teaching an Indian how to read. You The teacher knows if you he/she gets caught…