Analysis Of Theodora Kroebers ' Work

When reading, The Way to Rainy Mountain I found out one of the most prolific American Indian writers of the 20th century was N. Scott Momaday, and he grew up on many different Indian reservations in southwest American. He first lived with his grandparents on the Kiowa reservation. Then N. Scott Momaday moved to Arizona where his parents were teachers on Indian reservations. This exposed Momaday to the traditions of his Kiowa ancestry, as well as the traditions of other tribes, such as the Apache, Pueblo, and Navajo.

Queen Esther Julia Kapiolani Napelakapuokakae, other known Queen Kapiolani, was born on December 31,1834 in Hilo, Hawaii, and died on June 24, 1899 in Waikiki. She was married to David Kalakaua and both of them changed Hawaii. Queen Kapiolani is one of Hawaii’s greatest monarchs because of her good morals, she created the Iolani Palace, and she created Queen Kapiolani Medical Center

California?s Indians are popularly viewed as static remnants of ancient Stone-Age peoples. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Before and after the advent of whites in their lands, native cultures constantly changed and adapted to shifting social and ecological conditions. (Rice, 31)

Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was an American founding father who positively shaped our country and impacted the American people. He was a spokesman for democracy, which allows the people to have their voices be heard for policies regarding the government. His views opposed a strong centralized government and helped show the potential of states rights. Jefferson was a powerful advocate for liberty and was well educated, benefitting him when writing the Declaration of Independance. He communicated well with others, which put him in the position of negotiating trade with other countries and gaining alliances. Jefferson was not known for

Tita-youngest daughter of mama elena and also the protagonist of the novel. She is barred from getting married as per family traditions in the understanding that she would care for her mother till death. She faces many struggles such as not being able to marry her desirer Pedro and also watch him get married to her sister. The book progress with her life and shows a main focus on her disturbed relationship with pedro and also displays her hardships in her life to pursue love and distinctiveness from others. The purpose of her upbringing was to be excellent in the culinary arts.

Ishi was born in the year 1861, and in the month of September. He was known to be the last member of the Yahi tribe, a group of the Yana of the U.S. State of California. he Yana are a group of Native Americans indigenous to Northern California in the central Sierra Nevada. In June 1915, he temporarily lived in Berkeley with the anthropologist Thomas Talbot Waterman and his family. Waterman tried to understand his language for research. Ishi was brought to San Francisco University for studying purposes, and eventually died of tuberculosis and low immunity.

Rebecca Skloot has always had an interest in Henrietta Lacks, the African-American woman whose cancer cells were cultivated and recognized as the first imortal cell strain and used for scientific research and discovery. There isn't much information about Henrietta and her family so, Skloot wanted to tell the world about the host of the famous HeLa cells and her family. Before realizing how much backstory, emotion, and controversy exists until she starts connecting with the family and people involved with them.

There are many topic in this class I enjoy to read and know about it. The first come to my mine is about the California Indian. Why I pay attention to this group of people because we are living in California which is belong to the Indians long times ago and California has the nation's largest population of American Indians, As the book mentions “California's early Indians lived sustainably and close to nature's rhythms and balance" As the European came here and change the native Americans. Therefore, I willing to learn what the California Indian situation.

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The history of the California Indians differ from any other ethnic group who came to the Americas in the last few centuries as immigrants. Indians who came to North America and eventually traveled south to California lived in a land plenty of natural resources and their material technology reflected what was necessary to meet their basic needs. They did what was necessary to survive, nothing more, nothing less. They lived in harmony with their environment with a cultural lifestyle that was more a reflection of numbers and using the most out of everything. After 1769, things began to change.

“It wasn’t until 1958 that the Bigfoot legend really started to kick off in the United States. That year, a man named Gerald Crew found a set of large footprints at a construction site where he worked in California” (Upton). Gerald Crew examined the large footprints and declared the footprints were from a very big species that could have been Bigfoot. “In 1967, the ‘Patterson-Gimli film’ was captured. The film shows a tall, hairy ‘Bigfoot’ walking through the forest” (Upton). This real film of Bigfoot’s existence grabbed the public’s attention about this topic and the person captured real footage of the Bigfoot walking in the forest. “The legend of Bigfoot existed long before the European men arrived in the New World. The Coastal Indians tribes of British Columbia and in particular the Kwakiutls had carved totem poles and face masks which clearly had references to a ‘man-beast’” (Shackley). Even a long time ago, many Indian tribes living in North America have maybe have seen or heard about Bigfoot being alive and living in the woods on North American soil. Also, the man-beast face masks referenced Bigfoot's facial feautre of the

Castillo, Prof. Edward D. "SHORT OVERVIEW OF CALIFORNIA INDIAN HISTORY." California Native American Heritage Commission. 1 Jan. 1998. Web. 27 Oct. 2014. <http://nahc.ca.gov/califindian.html>.

Fanny Kemble was born on November 27, 1809, on London, England. She was born into a family of actors. Later, she became an actress to save her family financially, but her true passionate was in writing and literature. She was considered an intelligent and independent woman. She fell in loved and married Pierce Butler in Philadelphia in 1834. He became infatuated by Fanny Kemble when he first saw her performed and he followed her in the tour. He was a wealthy American who owned hundreds of slaves. Fanny Kemble and Pierce Butler marriage was in a rough patch since it started because both have different views on slavery. Pierce tried to convince Kemble the benefits of slavery and Fanny tried to convince him to emancipate his slaves. She tried

The story of the Sevier-Fremont people’s evolution and existence in the Great Basin parallels Williams’ life in Utah during the 1980s. They Sevier-Fremont evolved from the Anasazi

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