Essays about: "American Indians"

Found 5 essays containing the words American Indians.

  1. 1. Cross-cultural Analysis of Congratulations in American English, Indian English and Peninsular Spanish

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Kimia Avazpour; [2020]
    Keywords : Cross-cultural; speech acts; congratulations; DCTs; Elwood;

    Abstract : To gain a better understanding of intercultural communication, it is relevant to study speech acts not only in different languages but also across different language varieties. Seeing as speech act studies are said to have suffered from Anglocentrism there is a necessity to include nonwestern cultures (Wierzbicka, 1985:145). READ MORE

  3. 2. Transcultural Zone: Hybridity and Frontier Theory in Callahan’s Wynema: A Child of the Forest.

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Caroline Browé; [2015]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The terms “Indian” and “Native American” do not only signify the indigenous peoples of America, but also includes stereotypical features and descriptions that are created by the Euro-Americans. The aim of this essay is to investigates what Indian identity is in Alice Callahan’s novel Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1981), and whether it promotes Indian stereotype or not. READ MORE

  4. 3. Social Dialogue and Labour Relations in United States' Federal Indian Law and Policy: Alien Concepts?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Marc Gorrie; [2012]
    Keywords : Native Americans; Tribes; Tribal Nations; Tribal; Indigenous; Indians; American Indians; Sovereignty; Self-determination; Alien Tort Claims Act; ATCA; Labour Relations; ILO; International Labour Organization; Consultation; Prior Consultations; Governance Conventions; American Legal History; Traditional Occupations; United States Federal Indian Law and Policy; Law and Political Science;

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  5. 4. Idealism and Guilt in the Forest : Cooper, Emerson and the American Wilderness Myth

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Tommy Feldt; [2012]
    Keywords : The Last of the Mohicans; wilderness; America; Emerson; myth;

    Abstract : James Fenimore Cooper’s 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans has had a remarkable impact on American culture and modern critics have often viewed it as a myth of America itself. Cooper’s highly romanticized narrative has partly been seen as the less-than-historical “wish-fulfillment” (D.H. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Resurgence of Native American Identity. A case study of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Johan Holm; [2006]
    Keywords : Ethnic renewal; Ethnicity Ethnic Identity; Native American; Martha s Vineyard; Wampanoag; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the resurgence of Native American identity. Scholars have observed a dramatic increase of people identifying themselves as Native Americans over the past forty years in the decennial US Census. READ MORE