Native American Essay Examples and Topics

In literature, sometimes depending upon what you read will make you think about what is good literature and what is bad literature. My definition of ‘good literature’ is literature that helps you learn and understand as to what happened and why did it happen. ‘Remarks…

Rene Descartes’s, Discourse on Method, helps with the understanding of both Michel de Montaigne’s Essay, Catalina de Erauso’s autobiography, as well as Peter Paul Rubens painting, Descent from the Cross. Their ideas added to the ways in which Europe helped conceptualized the New World. Each…

Montaigne describes the barbarous people in his essay, `Des cannibales` as noble savages, who live in harmony with nature, share everything, lead a simple but honourable life and practice an uncorrupted religion without being tainted by Western societies. They hold two characteristic in high esteem,…

Bacon’s Rebellion within the early fall of 1676, armed horsemen cantered on the Middlesex road. Tumult, riot, and rebellion had come back to Virginia. The troubles had begun aloof from the Indians and English were still in touch (as they weren’t in Middlesex), and also…

Michel De Montaigne’s book The Essays: A Selection is captivating and bold, especially considering the time that is was written in when hardly anyone would write about oneself due to sounding conceived with oneself, boring, biased, or uneducated. However, Montaigne’s book is neither of those…

Over 90% of indigenous women have experienced violence in their lifetime. 86% of those women were sexually assaulted by a non-tribal member. Although Native Americans make up a mere 1% of the total population (United States Cong. Savanna’s Act), the US Department of Justice estimates…

The Virginians grow tobacco, in 1617 and need labor, at first, they the Indians and African blacks had begun but was not yet the primary source of Labor in Virginia. So, to get the labor need to run their plantations, another source is the European…

Dark Snake Killaz is a full-length narrative film about the protection from the Dakota Access Pipeline. This film investigates moves made by water defenders to stop the development of the oil pipeline and features moves made by law implementation, military, and corporate soldiers of fortune…

Introduction When an infrastructural project such as the Dakota Access Pipeline is going to be built on native land, the native community would heavily oppose its construction by starting a protest. The protest by the Sioux Tribe would attract a lot of attention throughout the…

The Syracuse University mascot used to be a very controversial topic back when the mascot was the Saltine Warrior. This racist mascot divided the community and now Otto is bringing the community one step closer to healing that divide. While the controversy and pain of…

Money talks. This phrase is more prevailing in the current world economy than it ever has been. It was only a matter of time before an innocent human life got a valuation placed on it and in 2017 some Americans did just that. The Dakota…

Introduction In the nineteenth century, America was arranging itself into socially acceptable categories by those who were in charge. These layers and classes of people created divisions in society and how people should interact. Social norms and roles were created and interactions came down to…

Kathleen DuVal’s The Native Ground focuses on the relationships between Native American Indians and Europeans in the Arkansas River Valley. By shifting our perceptions from a European based view to a Native American Indians centered view, history as we know in the seventeenth and eighteenth…

Indigenous peoples all over the world have sustained their lives reconstructed in the blink of an eye by colonization, and our ever-growing need to economically prosper at the expense of others. To get to appreciate a certain culture you must try to acknowledge every aspect…

Prejudice and discrimination amongst european explorers against the American Indians is an issue found in Christopher Columbus’ two letters concerning his voyages to America. To explain how prejudice attitude arises, Tajfel proposed the social identity theory. According to this theory, belonging to a group is…