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...

History is a subject in which people learned of their culture and lands back round. Most people learn about history from textbooks and or oral traditions. Other had a passion to present history in a different way. A way that others would appreciate more and still others would appreciate less. Movies...

A Comparison of Early American Texts When the Europeans first came to the Americas in the late 15th - early 16th century, they brought with them a distinctive style of literature that was a complete contrast to the Native Americans' who inhabited the land. The Europeans' system of ...

The Role of Third Cinema Third Cinema as Guardian of Popular Memory refers to popular memory as an oral historiography of the Third World folklore, serving as an account of memories passed from generation to generation. Unlike traditional Western Cinema, like that of the United States which is ...

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...