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- 31: Sybolism In White Fang
- ... slavery prison camps. The greed for money and profit is the only need for this prison camp ; the dog-fighting gambling is their prison cell. A comparison between the bulldog Cherokee and death itself can be made. Once death has you, there is no way of escaping. When Cherokee had White Fang gripped between his jaws, There was no escaping that grip. It was like Fate itself, and was inexorable, (London 139). Surely enough, God (Weedon Scott) came along ...
- 32: White Fang
- ... slavery prison camps. The greed for money and profit is the only need for this "prison camp"; the dog-fighting gambling is their prison cell. A comparison between the bulldog Cherokee and death itself can be made. Once death has you, there is no way of escaping. When Cherokee had White Fang gripped between his jaws, "There was no escaping that grip. It was like Fate itself, and was inexorable," (London 139). Surely enough, God (Weedon Scott) came along ...
- 33: Native American Women
- ... a stranger and yielded authority to his wife's eldest brother. As a result, the husband was unlikely to become an authoritative, domineering figure. Moreover, among such peoples as the Cherokee, Iroquois, and Pueblo, a disgruntled wife, secure in her possessions, could simply divorce her husband by tossing his belongings out of their residence. Women's role in tribal governance was ... of custody in earlier times. Among many Southeast tribes the women were influential in tribal councils and in some places they cast the deciding vote for war or peace. The Cherokee designated a female as "Beloved Woman," through whom they believed the Great Spirit spoke. Consequently, her words were always heard but not necessarily heeded. However, she headed the influential Woman ...
- 34: The Seminole
- ... Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi. The Seminole had a Muskogean language of the Hokan-Siouan stock. (Bookshelf) The Indian tribes found in the southeast were the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Yuchi, Yamassee, Apalachicola, Timucua, and Calusa. The southeastern Indians were described by the Spanish as being tall with complexions ranging from olive, to brownish. The Indians in the mountainous regions ... the Everglades. After that, they were left alone. (Garbarino 54-55) Today, many Seminole live on small farms in Oklahoma. They were among the Five Civilized Tribes that include the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, and Choctaw. The Seminole that remained in Florida make a living by hunting, fishing, farming, raising cattle, or working in tourism. (Seminole Indians 291) "For more than 200 ...
- 35: Leonard Peltier Essay
- ... this case, any white government official will do. For instance, the statement by one Walk for Justice speaker that, "this is the same white government who took lands from the Cherokee in Georgia and started the Trail of Tears," is only symbolically true. The accusation makes the white race the sole powerful force in this present government, which has, in modern ...
- 36: Roaring Camp
- ... the work of regeneration began is Roaring Camp"(9). The regeneration referred to takes place in a California mining camp in 1850 after the birth of Tommy Luck, son of Cherokee Sal, the camp’s prostitute, who died giving birth. Sometimes one doesn’t realize how much he needs to change until he gets a subtle push from fate. Just a ...
- 37: The Nation Takes Shape: A Review
- ... actuality, the Indian was better for the land than any white man ever was. Also, the white man called the Indian savages, but this argument was shot-down by the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole-who were themselves peaceful “agriculturalists.” A few of these Indians were rich men. One Choctaw Chieftan, had four hundred negro slaves on his cotton plantation ...
- 38: Jimi Hendrix
- ... line of work, so in 1959, he enlisted into the 101st Airborne (Murray 36). Jimi’s parents were of mixed descent, with Jimi’s family tree had whites, blacks, and Cherokee Indians. Jimi never denied his ethnic diversity, but rather accepted his diversity and publicly allowed it to show through in his music. Jimi said it best in “If 6 was ...
- 39: In Cold Blood
- ... routinely left unlocked. The killers then travel to Mexico, Hickock playing their way with bad checks. Tension grows in the complicated relationship between smooth-talking but malevolent Dick and half-Cherokee Perry, a moody little man with stunted legs who likes to sing and play the guitar. When their money runs out, they return to the States, pass more bogus checks ...
- 40: The Presidency of Andrew Jackson
- ... nor the desire of improvement.” By the end of the 1830s almost all of the important Indian societies east of the Mississippi with the exceptions of a few Seminole and Cherokee tribes had been moved to the West. Basically Andrew Jackson during his Presidency strengthened his office, strengthened and redefined the supremacy of the Union over the individual states, and further ...
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