Category: Native American

Screeching, chanting, stomping, murderous, barbaric, savages. Portrayed in The Last of the Mohicans, A Man Called Horse, Windwalker, Cheyenne Autumn, and countless others, these are the American Indians that Hollywood has created for viewers across the country since the 1960s. In movies and novels, the same brutish men wearing colossal feathered headdresses protecting the one…

Understanding Sherman Alexie’s life from early childhood until now, is a significant way to understand his works and Native American society in the past and in the current time as well. Sherman Alexie is a prominent contemporary native American author. He was born on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Welpinit, Washington on October 7, 1966.…

Whatever your situation is there will always be that one person consistently pushing you down and their constant berating urges you to stop. Even no matter how strong you struggle to block them out. They will always be in the back of your head being a persistent nuisance reminding you of your failures. Sometimes we…

I don’t think that sports teams should use Native Americans as mascots. It is often offensive to Native Americans and their culture and they should start making the change. I think there are some names that are more offensive than others. Considering the Chiefs, although it still is not right that they use someone else’s…

There is a well-known principle in social psychology that involves in-groups and out-groups. Those who share a particular set of qualities are categorized together as the ingroup, while those excluded are labeled the outgroup. The groupings can be somewhat arbitrary, such as when UNLV students naturally despise UNR students on the simple premise of which…

Every year on the fourth Thursday of November, millions of families in the United States reunite to celebrate Thanksgiving and reflect on the good things in life. On this day, people usually have a big feast with turkey as the star-meal, besides other foods such as mashed potatoes and pumpkin pies. And, besides spending some…

While white settlers claimed they intended to shape the Natives into what they perceive as an ideal American, they failed  or rather refused, to recognize the goodness in what we have today, diversity. To the settlers, the American way was the only way. The Natives were told to rid of everything they once knew…

The Sioux Wars can be summed up as the heist of land and the theft of the way of life for indegeous Americans. Years of suffering and mistreatment on Native Americans lasted 100s of years.. Many others in the midwest area faced the same fate like Ho Chunk, Oneida, Menommine, Ojibwe and many more. The…

What comes to mind when you hear the term primary source? When I hear primary source, I immediately think of direct evidence of something or someone. A primary source is a source that derives from a person or something that has personal experience or contact with something. Do you believe primary sources are always vital?…

History The Effects of Colonization on Native Americans Though European travelers and settlers referred to the Americas as the new world, there was nothing new about the lands they had discovered. For thousands of years, Native people roamed the lands freely in the form of hundreds of different tribes. They built communities, practiced their own…