Conflict Between the Oral Tradition and the Written Form in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven The oral tradition of passing along history, information and stories of culture have been around since the beginning of time. In many cultures today, oral traditions are still the main means ...

Grave desecration has been experiences in the United States for nearly two hundred tears without respect to Native Indians first amendment rights to freedom of religion. Indian spirituality is not free from ecology, they are part of the same system of the beliefs for Indians, and their spiritual...

Smoke signals is a unique movie that is directed by, written by and star Native Americans. Smoke Signals captures the power of media to advertise their own culture of present day Native Americans. Smoke Signals is a story built on morals about making peace with personal history, and keeping alive th...

It all began on a beautiful Washington day. Two hydroplane spectators made a chance discovery of a skull partially embedded in the sediment of the Columbia River. They immediately called the sheriff who in turn informed the Kennewick police. Upon further inspection, the police came across more b...

Theme of Harmony in Native American Literature Mostly, the theme of the Native American stories focuses in harmonious relationship between men and nature. We have read stories such as; House made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday, Bear Country by Leslie Marmon Silko, and Canyon de Chelly by Simon Ort...

The Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Nation is also known as the Great Sioux Nation. The word Sioux was adopted by the United States government from the term (Nadowesioux), which comes from a Chippewa (Ojibwa) word which means little threatened snake or enemy. This was because the Ojibwa or Chippewa learned t...

Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. By Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. In Indians and English, Karen Ordahl Kupperman contends that... When the class was first prompted to read and then analyze Karen Ordahl Kupperman's l...