... title of Alexie's tale indicates this story is primarily about a Native tradition, in this case a Spokane tradition involving ritual drug use. While the story with its reference to "Washington Water Power" indicates that the Spokane tribe is located in the Northwestern United States, the traditional use of natural hallucinogenic plants for Native ... more than one variety of plant. Weston La Barre, a James B. Duke Professor of Anthropology Emeritus in Duke University who researched peyote usage by Native Americans from the 1930's through the 1980's, covers the use of the peyote cactus fo...

• Word Count: 1919
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... voyage with William Bradford when he fell ill and died. It is possible that Massasoit could have poisoned him. The Pilgrims didn't treat the Native Americans as equals. They mistreated them. The problem started when Alexander became sachem of the Pokanokets. The Pilgrims put Alexander on trial for supposedly ... house. After leaving Josiah Winslow's house, Alexander became ill and died. His successor was is brother Philip. Philip was now had the title of sachem. Philip became suspicious of the Pilgrims. He suspects that his brother was poisoned by the Pilgrims. Philip may have jumped to ...

• Word Count: 2493
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... were made for entertainment to be ridiculed and heckled. If they wanted to honor them, they could have made statues or national landmarks for Native Americans. Some universities were allowed to keep their nicknames by getting permission from local tribes, such as Florida State's Seminoles and Utah's Utes ... is a racial epithet" (Looney 6). Last year, Oregon's Board of Education decided to cut state funding to schools that fail to retire their Native American mascots, while Wisconsin passed a law in 2010 that forces schools to drop race-based mascots if a complaint is filed and the pract...

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• Grade Level: High School

... history class many topics were discussed regarding the transformation of America between 1770 and 1870. There were numerous interesting topics discussed; however, I found the topic of the uprooting the Native Americans the most interesting. This commentary will examine the circumstances that instigated the injustice better known as the Trail of Tears. Further, it this commentary will detail how the " ... were "sentenced" to the American wasteland, better known as Oklahoma. First and foremost, we must understand what the "five civilized" tribes are and how they got coined with such a title...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , for example, that "...the settlers....built temples for the worship of their god..." (Jones 281). In addition, the influence of the political system, as men were given the title of godi and godar. In creating a legal system, they adopted the Gulathing Law, which was the law of western Norway. This would later influence the establishment of Greenland's laws as ... . Karlsefni, in the Eiríks Saga, is said to have settled in two different areas: Straumfjord and Hóp (Jones 301). However, these settlements did not last long, due clashes with the Native Americans. Later, it is guessed that ...

• Word Count: 749
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School