Colville Indian Reservation

Asian Indians, East Indians and Indo-Americans are all the same culture, they are Indians. They have an interesting economic history with the United States. Asian Indians have attained some of the highest educational levels of all ethnic groups of Asian descent. Their family and religion have a desire to maintain traditional values of Hinduism. They are one of the oldest civilizations that continue to flourish in the present day. Social History in the US Asian Indians have been migrating to…

The Strengths in the Original Poem of “Intimacy” By removing “Peacock feather,” the delicacy of the feather is diminished. A wheelbarrow is a rough object. The wheelbarrow does not offer the same imagery with the line of “wide eye tamed with dirt” as the “peacock feather does”. A wheelbarrow is neither wild nor tamed, but a peacock is a free animal, and one that is not typically domesticated or tamed. The father also references to the title: “Intimacy” of being a soft and fragile concept. The…

1. The Code of Justinian, The Roman Emperor Justinian instructed his legal advisors to come together to create a set common set of laws that were to be used for his entire empire. The group of men wrote down the laws that were already in use and made sure they did not contradict one another. When they felt the laws were in order they named them “The Code of Justinian. The laws were so well written and were just that many nations used the Justinian codes when they were establishing their own laws…

There will always be a factor that prevents people of different ethnicities from integrating with each other. Whether it is the color of a person’s skin, their economic status, or their religion and culture. Ethnic relations are the relations between race and economics as well as the relations between different ethnicities. In the past, segregation was a part of everyday life. White people held the majority of the population and therefore felt that they were superior to those who were not white…

executive power to enforce the federal power of the laws that he chose to enforce while others he gave the states more power over enforcement. He also owned more than 300 slaves in his life time which he treated poorly and he acted like a friend to the Indians but then forced them out west. Jackson believed that extending the charter of the Second Bank of the United States was a form of blackmail toward his reelection and vetoed the bill, which later resulted in the Panic of 1837. Jackson might…

Today’s society has placed plenty of stereotypes upon Asian Americans. Labeling them as the model minority, assuming that all Asian Americans are intelligent by nature, seems to be the most common (Szu 2003). These stereotypes have been negatively affecting the growing population of Asian Americans in the school systems, as they are leading to teacher bias. Bias in the classroom can cause teachers to view all their Asian American students as intelligent and assume they are receiving academic…

In today's date there are still many problems with the Sioux Nation. They are still going through many tragic events. 8 out of 10 adults Native Americans suffer from alcoholism. Usually 17 people are living in a two or three bedroom home. In the book Saga of the Sioux, the author shows the different conflicts and themes. In the nonfiction novel Saga of the Sioux, there are two major conflicts. They are Man vs Nature and Man vs Society. They were primarily hunters though the cast and santees…

When people get to a certain point in life, Americans have the idea that every US citizen’s should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. Although living in a very discriminated time, Willie Mays did accomplish the American Dream by achieving his desired aims and having determination to fulfill his everyday fantasies. His father, Cat Mays, was a talented baseball player with the Negro team for the local iron plant. His…

Imagine living off of anything you can find, and giving up your life so others could live. Well, this was what the Blackfoot tribe did in their daily lives. In the Blackfoot language, which was based of the Algonquian language, they called themselves Siksika meaning "Those with Black Moccasins." Originally the nomadic American tribe migrated from the Great Lakes to live in the plains region including Montana, Idaho, and even Alberta, Canada. The Blackfoot tribe was split into three smaller…

for the Indian Removal Act. The goal of this act was to allow the United States access to the lands East of the Mississippi river. There were many different reasons why Congress decided to pass this act, however the primary reason was because the Indians were sitting on large reserves of untouched riches and minerals. This act, however, went against the law, and was highly immoral because it was taking over lands which did not belong to the United States, and involved kicking the Indians out…