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reconstruction, redemption, and the salvation of oneself and world. The mixed narrative of prose and poems follows the recovery of Tayo, a Native American man who returns home to the Laguna Pueblo reservation after fighting in World War II riddled with PTSD and hatred towards the outside world. Tayo 's struggles represent the struggles of the clashing of Native American and White culture both in physical space and within people, as Tayo represents the meeting of these two cultures within a…

For Native Hawaiians the entire universe and all things in it, including spirits, were natural. The land of the Hawaiian people had an abundant amount of natural resources to create materials and food to survive. The bones of their ancestral spirits were buried deep into the ground that generated food and possessed the spiritual energy to sustain families. Herb Kawainui Kane, an author and artist-historian with special interest in Hawai 'i and the South Pacific, states “Aumakua (Ancestral…

She draws an interesting line between the treatment of the Irish from the English to the treatment of Africans and Native…

and set straight by a single story. He learns from Magawisca, a captive Native American, that the frontier is made up of false images and stories and thus it has become this “imaginal place” (Schneekloth 210). Young Flecher was so caught up in what he thought was right that, when he learned the truth, it vexed him so much that he cried. Ultimately, he understands that his people, the Puritans, had wronged the Native Americans. From this newfound information, Everell loses his remaining innocence…

Swiss, Italian, German, and Native American. I grew up in Soledad, California, which is mainly populated by Hispanics so I knew my ethnicity was different growing up. I have lived in Soledad all my life until I moved to San Jose for college and noticed an enormous cultural difference, which opened my eyes to vastly different cultures. My friends growing up were lucky to be bilingual, while I struggled to learn a new language. My family and I only speak English;…

they are being called upon to reinterpret and to apply the tradition, the Story, in a new way. There is urgency to this task, for Mother Earth is no longer looking after herself naturally but is an Earth looked after, and badly, by man” (The Role of Native Elders: Emergent Issues, Pg. 28) Elders reinterpret and apply the tradition of the New Story in new ways, to all sort of electric groups of people, because every person should know a way to live and to preserve the Earth we live…

Substance Abuse in Native American Communities Problem Statement: What actions should Donald Trump take to combat substance abuse disorders in American Indian and Alaskan Native communities? 1.5 Background: According to the World Health Organization, substance abuse is defined as, “the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances, including alcohol and illicit drugs.”1 In 2014, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported that roughly 20.2 million Americans had…

Williams family who lost their daughter as a captive to the Bear tribe of the Mohawk Native Americans. The book deeply explores religion and how it relates to the ideas of savagery and family through comparison of experiences in the lives of the Puritans and the lives of the Native American captors. The Deerfield Massacre occurred in 1704 in Massachusetts. The massacre was carried out by a tribe of Native Americans in retaliation against French and English attacks. The small town of Deerfield…

came as president Polk, wanted to expand America’s boundaries as a part of the Manifest destiny, an authorization from god to occupy North America, Canada, and South America. The manifest destiny saw the natives as inferior to the Christian beliefs of the settlers. In addition to seeing the natives as inferior, they were also seen as incapable of taking care of the land as they had not developed it which was a part of the manifest destiny to develop the land. The move to Basque Redondo, however,…

The American Revolution The American Revolution started in 1765 and ended in 1783 after the French and Indian War. The reason why the American Revolution occurred was because the colonists were tired of the British monarchy and aristocracy. The colonists had the right to revolutionize against the British. During this time the British Crown had no idea how the colonists lived and the rules he was suppressing on them seemed unjust to the colonists. At first he sent men to settle the land and…