American cuisine was influenced by Europeans and Native Americans in its early history. Today, there are a number of foods that are commonly identified as American, such as hamburgers, hot dogs, potato chips, macaroni and cheese, and meat loaf. “As American as apple pie” has come to mean...
California, along with the southwestern states were ceded to the United States by Mexico in 1848 after the Mexican-American War. The Southwest is distinctive because of its historical ties to colonial Spain, its Native American populations, and its regional cuisine, which has been influenced by Na...
Native American peoples and was colonized beginning in the 1500s by Spain, France, the Netherlands, and England. Great Britain eventually controlled most of the Atlantic coast and, after the French and Indian Wars (1754-1763), the Northwest Territory and Canada. The original Thirteen Colonies ...
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Haskell Indian Nations University, for instance, is free for any Native American tribe member, while Alice Lloyd College has free college tuition for any student from the Appalachian Mountains. Work programs were once very common – in the 19th and early 20th century, through the Great Depression...
Until the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of indigenous children had been uprooted from their homes and many had been abused to death in those boarding schools where their American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian identities, languages, and beliefs were forcibly suppressed. ...
As relationships between Indigenous Peoples (Native American, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) and non-Indigenous people continue to be a social, political, and cultural focus in these two nation-states, and as Indigenous Peoples continue to work for self-determination amid colonial systems and ...
Native American representation in museums : a cross cultural comparison of the effects of cultural resources laws The image of Native Americans in the United States has changed throughthe passage of time. Part of this change is directly related to the representation of... D Kingston,M Mathewson...
Paldam (2007) also supports such cultural singularity by arguing “governments in oil countries have to pass on a fair amount of the resource rent to the native population, who then become rentiers living on resource rent. This allows them to live a traditional life devoted to religion, and ...
out of Tromsø, Norway, you walk among 300 reindeer and feed them, then take a sled ride to a traditional meal cooked over an open fire. The evening continues in a “lavvu” tent—similar to a Native American tipi—with storytelling about Sami life and culture and a traditional Sami ...