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This essay will over the information given on the book "The Navajo" by James F. Downs and begin to argue for the social ramifications that the book offers on the Navajo way of life. The structures of social organization will explained and put forth to show how these people lived in this forum. The social habits will discussed and the way that they contribute to the communities of the Navajo. The emphasis of this paper will be to find the element of power, through this book, in the social rituals as practiced in the social structure of the Navajo of today.

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This paper has the theme: Native peoples and Western values, and the thesis is that Western values threaten Native culture, which could actually be used to great advantage by the West.

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This paper studies the research of Kelly and Francis in "Navajo Sacred Places" and suggests that through understanding the non-natives can come to understand the importance of land and consider it as 'sacred' as the Natives do.

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This paper discusses the life of Apache Chief Geronimo who in reality devoted his life to defending the rights of his people and ownership of their native land against the United States military.

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This paper discusses the new Indian education policy put into effect by the Clinton administration. This paper explains Clinton's strategy is to evaluate the role Native language and customs play in Indian education, establish baseline date, report and develop. The goal is to implement the policy within two years.

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This paper examines several recent major theories concerning the assimilation of the Native American Western Plains tribes in the period known as "prehistory", with an emphasis on how the perceptions of the anthropologist affect the overall study of the tribes.

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This paper examines the changing context of sacred geography amongst Native Americans. It argues that Native Americans perceived of the biosphere as being sacred. This was inconceivable to the colonizers and remains a component of efforts at post-colonial analysis.

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This paper examines the history of the Cherokee Nation during the period between the first European contact to the American Civil War. An emphasis is on the role of the Cherokee people as a socially and politically motivated people who were wronged by the U.S. government.

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This paper examines the initial encounters between the Native Americans and the Europeans when the Europeans first made contact with the Americas. This paper draws from the two works, "The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society" by Gary B Nash, and "Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence", by William Wheeler.

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This paper examines the role of spirituality in the traditions of Native American peoples. There is a focus on the rituals involved in hunting and fishing, as well as the significance of the natural world for Native Americans.

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This paper examines the Trail of Tears, the forced relocation west of the Mississippi of the Cherokee Nation in the 1830s. It examines the Cherokee Nation, the development of the federal policy of 'removal' and its consequences

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This paper helps the reader to see the cultures of the Inuit and the Cree of Mistassini at the micro level, in the light of the "total institutions" described by Goffman in "Asylums". (1991) When describing social establishments of the kind, Goffman comments that, "every institution captures something of the time and interest of its members and provides something of a world for them; in brief, every institution has encompassing tendencies". (1991, 15) Current industrialized societies have a way of compartmentalizing different aspects of human life and interaction. (1991, 17).

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This paper is a combination of three interviews of people from different cultures with quotes to back up the interviews.

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This paper shall examine, in the context of selected writings from native literature, whether there is a relationship between the role of the "Berdache" or third gender in traditional Native cultures, and the roles played by contemporary "Two-Spirited" writers.

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Huichol Indians in Latin America use the controlled drug, Peyote, during their religious rituals because of its psychoactive properties. Peyotism also invaded North America during the 20th century and the use of this plant as a drug increased dramatically here during the sixties decade when hippies experimented with various drugs in their quest for an alternative lifestyle. Peyote is an important part of Huichol rituals because it forms the Trinity, of which, Fire and Deer are the other two components.