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Native and Non-native Tensions in Canada, 2005.
An analysis of the argument between native and non-native Canadians over claims of land.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper analyzes the land claims of the aboriginal people of Canada. The paper discusses the history over the struggle between native and non-native Canadians, in regards to their struggle over land, fishing and hunting rights upon property in the country for many years. The paper presents the argument of the aboriginal people and the counter-claim of those non-native Canadians who are opposed to the claim, as well as their solution to the problem.
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"Native Knowledge for Native Ecosystems", 2007.
A review of Robin Wall Kimmerer's article, "Native Knowledge for Native Ecosystems".
1,070 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 37.95
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This paper briefly reviews Robin Wall Kimmerer's 2000 article, "Native Knowledge for Native Ecosystems" and highlights the article's main points as well as how it approaches the broad concept of ethno-ecology. More importantly, the paper also touches upon how the article approaches the linkage of local and/or traditional knowledge of ecological systems with academic and/or scientific knowledge of those same systems. Finally, the paper discusses the significance of the aforementioned linkage as it pertains to the future of human beings in the global ecosystem.
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"Simply put, Kimmerer's argument is that Native Americans intensively cultivated the land so that it would provide them with sufficient foodstuffs to brave the grueling winter months. While modern-day efforts to restore the ancient biological vitality and bio-diversity of the American woods and ecosystems is a laudable goal, it is not possible without also considering how the natives were able to so successfully manage the world around them. In effect, Kimmerer argues that modern-day conservationists must "heal" their relationship to the land and understand the land spiritually and emotionally as well as intellectually. Less abstractly, Kimmerer states that twenty-first century man must adopt the "site-specific" or "diachronic" knowledge which well-served Native Americans in the past and which lends itself to successful local site restoration. "
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Native vs. Non-native Anthropology, 2005.
This paper contends that distinctions between native and non-native anthropology are insignificant.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper explains that a native anthropologist is one who conducts research in their own society whereas a regular anthropologist conducts research in any society. The paper considers how some would argue that there should be a distinction. This paper presents the hypothesis that the distinctions between native and regular anthropology do not matter. To support this argument, the work of the following two anthropologists is considered; Vincent Crapanzano, who is considered a Native anthropologist because he is doing research in his own society and Anne Allison, an American doing research in Japan.
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Canadian Natives, 2002.
A list of reasons as to why Canadian natives should not be allowed their own self-government.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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This essay discusses the reasons why Natives should not have their own self-government. First of all, if they govern themselves, they will not be privileged to federal funding in the realm of health care. Secondly, they will not be able to be part of the Canadian economy, which offers many economic benefits. Last but not least, in the context of culture, they will be hurt because they will subscribe to collective rights, rather than to individual rights. Moreover, giving Natives self-government will also violate the rights of other Canadians.
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European Exploration of the Aztec Natives of Latin America, 2002.
This paper addresses the effects of the European exploration on the Aztec Natives of Latin America, looking specifically at the history of the land and the reasons for European exploration.
5,002 words (approx. 20.0 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 126.95
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The following paper looks at a brief historical view of the Aztecs, their origin and culture. The paper then discusses the Age of Exploration, the countries involved and what areas were explored. Effects of European exploration on the Aztec race, religion, land and labor are also discussed with their eventual and gradual disappearance. The writer restates all the fundamental points and the lessons learned during his research to conclude the paper.
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"History is exclusively neither an art nor a science, but a subtle blend of the two. The historical imagination reaches beyond the limits imposed by scientific method, but it does not enjoy unfettered poetic license. What is not required of art is required of history - to discover what the old universe was like rather than to invent a new one. We study the past in order to influence, no matter how modestly, the world around us and the world within us. Historical inquiry is always a response to the human need for information, an understanding of the broad patterns of social development." (History, 2001)
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The Impact of Education on Natives, 2002.
Describes the Canadian government's policy of educating Native Canadians according to "white" standards.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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Until recently, the federal government's education policies for natives involved shipping them to residential schools whose purpose was the elimination of native language and culture and the imposition of English and assimilation. This discussion examines the impact of this policy. It focuses on individual injury, social disruption, and long-term consequences.
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Natives and the West, 2002.
A look at the threat posed to Native culture by Western views.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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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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The Shrinking Reservation: No Room in America for the Natives., 2002.
An argumentative essay approach to the everyday lives of contemporary Native Americans living within a still-hostile society.
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This undergraduate level paper takes Using several sources, including stories from Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, to argue that there continues to be very little room in the American culture for Native Americans. It concludes that without a fundamental shift in perceptions and education of White America, this situation will certainly not improve.
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Settlers and Natives, 2006.
An examination of the relations between the early American settlers and the Native-Americans.
1,158 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper looks at the relationship between the early American settlers (colonists) and the Native-Americans who lived in the places that the colonists settled. It also discusses the information provided in the journals and memoirs of the colonists. The paper specifically focuses on "A Key into the Language of America" by Roger Williams and "The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain" by Samuel de Champlain.
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"As the old saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This could definitely be applied to the European explorers who, while colonizing the North American continent essentially wiped out the Native American culture in their attempt to evangelize, modernize, and civilize. Most explorers had the view that the natives were savage and unclean and would actually be helped by the European influence. While some explorers and colonists maintained this view, some, like Roger Williams and Samuel de Champlain, actually attempted to understand the culture and work together in peace. In Williams' A Key into the Language of America the reader finds that Williams had a sympathetic attitude towards the Native Americans. Williams makes the argument that the explorers and not the natives were the savages. French explorer Champlain also understood the importance of working with the natives, not against them. In Champlain's journals; The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, he often speaks about setting up trading posts and making peace with the Native American tribes."
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Natives and the Exploration of the Canadian North and West, 2005.
This paper explores the role of indigenous peoples in the explorations of Samuel Hearne, Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser.
2,584 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper examines how the success of the explorations of Samuel Hearne, Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser were dependent on the experience and assistance of natives. It looks at how tools such as canoes, snowshoes, and sledges were essential as travel would have been difficult or impossible without them and how the natives themselves were crucial to the explorers, working as navigators, pilots, translators, protectors, hunters, and advisors. It also examines how native knowledge of local terrain was often exploited by the Canadians in the charting of the North and West.
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"In addition to transportation, the subsistence of the explorers can also be credited to Native culture. All three explorers relied heavily on indigenous hunting and food preparation for their survival. Mackenzie wrote, "we depended for our support upon what the [Native] hunters could provide for us...They now, however, very shortly procured us as much fresh meat as we required."4 And later, in the company of friendly locals, he claimed, "on my expressing a desire to partake of their fish, they brought me a few dried trout, well cured, that had been taken in the river which they had lately left."5 The explorers very existence depended on the provisions of Native hunters. But seizure of food was only one aspect of the assistance of the tribes."
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Canadians and Native Stories, 2003.
A look at answer to Lenore Keeshig-Tobias question of why Canadians are so obsessed with native stories from her essay ?Stop Stealing Native Stories?.
2,043 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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This paper analyzes how in her in her essay ?Stop Stealing Native Stories? , Lenore Keeshig-Tobias refers to non-native authors? interest in telling native stories as ?cultural theft? and the ?theft of voice?. In order to comprehensively understand Lenore Keeshig-Tobias' argument, it explores Canadian society and defines and contrasts opinions on what it is to be ?indigenous? to a land. It also looks at the importance of Canada?s well-known native poets ? in particular, Marilyn Dumont and E. Pauline Johnson.
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"Another of E. Pauline Johnson?s interests was the depiction of Natives in white literature. The decision to include Natives and the way in which they were portrayed was a topic she explored as a part of her essay, ?A Strong Race Opinion: On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction?. Marilyn Dumont shows similar interests in her involvement in representing ?part of a new literary trend that encourages indigenous writers to create more realistic images of Native women and ultimately break down the established misrepresentations portrayed in non-Native literature.? (Kobayas) In exploring Natives in non-Native literature in such a way, both Johnson and Dumont are acknowledging that white Canadians do, indeed, write Native stories or perhaps stories with Native characters in them."
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European Influence on Native American Tribes, 2006.
This paper examines the continuing and devastating impact the Europeans, particularly the English, have had on the Native American people.
1,084 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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The writer of paper explores the current situation affecting the majority of the once proud Native Americans who now suffer from alcohol and substance abuse as well as declining general health. This paper historically details the life of Native Americans prior to the arrival of the English. The Native Americans lived in relative harmony with their surroundings and as contributing members to the land. This paper examines how the arrival of the English brought with them domination and a disrespect for the harmonious way of life the Native Americans had adopted. This paper discusses the fact that the English introduced alcohol to the Native-Americans. Prior to the introduction of alcohol the natives were seen as fit, athletic and lean people, whereas the people of today are often seen as obese and sickly. The writer contends and explains why alcohol is not the only problem introduced by the Europeans. This paper examines the the cultural genocide that has occurred among the natives who suffer from higher than average death rates, higher tuberculosis rates and a generally poor overall level of health.
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"Alcohol abuse is no the only problem introduced by the Europeans; today as a result of the cultural genocide that has occurred among the Native Americans, people living in these communities often suffer from higher than average general death rates, higher infant mortality and childhood death rates, higher tuberculosis rates and a general poor overall level of health regardless of ones age. In addition there is a generally inaccessibility to adequate health care facilities and a tremendous lack of preventive programs for health improvement among the population, all of which can contribute to an increased abuse of alcohol and other addictive substances. Most natives probably content themselves with living an impoverished lifestyle and have to turn to substances to take their mind off of the poor quality of life and healthy they must endure day after day."
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Alaskan Native Tribal Reservations, 2006.
This paper discusses the causes of poverty on the Alaskan Native tribal reservations.
1,555 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper explains that the reasons for the poverty on the Alaskan Native tribal reservations are related to (1) the culture, (2) the geography, (3) educational problems, (4) the exploitation of the natives by governments and large corporations and (5) substance abuse. The author points out that substance abuse is the single most important debilitating force among Alaska Natives, which have a higher rate of substance abuse than other cultures: 80% of all Native deaths are alcohol and the rate of fetal alcohol syndrome among Alaska Natives is the highest for any population. The paper stresses that, because solutions, which have been imposed from outside, will most likely be ineffective, there is a growing awareness that solutions to those problems must be generated at the community level and come through a re-commitment to traditional Indian values and beliefs.
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"There are ever shrinking resources for subsistance hunting and fishing. That brings us to the next topic which is exploitation of the Native. The oil companies have upset the delicate balance between the native and his land. Those companies have damaged the land through drilling and oil spills. For example, some natives think that a partial answer to their poverty is an Native-owned and operated fishing Co-op, made up of fisherman living on an average income of about $500 a year. Last year they contracted with a Japanese firm that agreed to buy their entire catch at an excellent price. After the Japanese ship had been cleared by Customs, Immigrations, Agriculture, and Public Health agencies and U.S. Consular authorities in Japan, the governor intervened to force the Japanese to cancel their agreement on the grounds that the contract violated the North Pacific Fisheries."
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Immigrant versus Native Americans, 2008.
This paper looks at the relationship between natives and new colonists from the colonial period.
1,740 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 56.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that the colonial Americans were clearly a population in conflict with a multitude of conflicting populations as well as objects. The writer notes that the colonists were in conflict with the land, which they did not yet understand, as well as the native peoples of the land, which they had chosen to become at least their temporary home, in the name of European progress and wealth. The writer points out that the conflicts, of which there were many, with native Americans were frequently difficult and bloody and in fact marked one of the greatest obstacles associated with European dominance of the new found colonies. The neighbors having been provoked by bad behavior in the past, would likely see and treat the new colonists with the same regard, tentatively trading with them to gain goods they had become dependent upon but at the same time never letting down their guard to the potential for treachery. The writer concludes that the native populations and the colonists then were in a continual dance of shaking hands at full arms length, in need of each other but unwilling to come any closer.
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"The colonists therefore resolved the conflict between themselves and natives, by placing the responsibility for collective communication upon the natives, and assuming all others, those who did not come to them first were in need of cajoling, either by means of warfare or dominance by dependence.
"Though in retrospect, some observers of the colonial experience, such as Raynol, recognized the error of assuming superiority over natives and removing them from the land with brute force and physical dominance was unethical at the very least, there is also a clear sense that this is retrospective and Raynol, did not have to live there. The pillage and plunder mentality and action, did not always succeed, though and there were clearly some who learned from the failings of others, in the conflict with the native populations."
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Feminism in Native America, 2007.
An analysis of feminism in Native America and its impact on native communities.
1,172 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 40.95
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This paper discusses feminism in Native America. It begins by describing various forms of feminism and discussing three waves of feminism. It then links feminism in Native America to the third wave, which includes ecofeminism, postcolonial feminism, generational, youth feminism and embodiment, nature, culture and dualism. The paper goes on to discuss the implications of this form of feminism on the native communities.
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"Regardless of its origins in Native communities, sexism operates with full force today and requires strategies that directly address it. Smith believes that before Native peoples fight for the future of their nations, they must decide who is included in the nation. Gender justice is often articulated as being a separate issue from issues of survival for indigenous peoples, and such an understanding presupposes that "we could actually decolonize without addressing sexism, which ignores the fact that it has been precisely through gender violence that we have lost our lands in the first place," argues Smith."
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