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    They are Native Americans who are trying to build better lives for themselves but are stopped in there tracks by the state supreme court. Proposition 5 passed in November of 98, which would allow more gambling in the Indian reservations. The proposition was ruled to be unconstitutional. Now the Indians are rebutting the fact that they are sovereign and the ballot was passed. Under existing law, Indian tribes operate as semi-sovereign nations, and are liable under federal law only. Recently, the

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    the former colonized, causing “ideal justice” and the “best-we-can-do justice”to fall short on their principles when a Native American woman is raped by a white man. Erdrich presents the life on the Native American reservation in a sense of post cultural civilization. The reservation is a civilized area

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    Saeed Almheiri Jochua Kim Pup 200: Cities In Cinema 10 November 2015 Thunder Heart: Analysis The film "Thunder Heart" contained numerous viewpoints identified with society arranging issues in regions, for example, Politics and political defilement, Education, Cultural arousing and Social system. Thunder heart investigates common points, for example, segregation, political activism and homicide. The film collected a few grant designations from the Political Film Society. Thunder heart, Ray Levoi

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    that will appease every group involved in this problem. However, the United States Government can do significantly more than they are doing to help remediate the problems of the educational system and fix some current issues on the American Indian reservations in the United States. It is statistically proven from the Bureau of Labor that the average person over the age of twenty-five with a high school diploma makes much more than the average person without a diploma. Further supporting this fact,

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    Lila reclaims her child from her mother-in-law and leaves the reservation. Ray makes a phone call to her child to explain her situation and tell him that Lila will be there to take care of her children. Police promise that, as a white woman with no criminal record, Ray will be freed from jail in several months as long

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    easier for customers to reserve tables, many people book multiple or speculative reservations to give them more dining options from which to choose when dinner time arrives. Upscale restaurants especially feel the effects from no-shows. Restaurant lose pure profit from cancellations and no-shows because most people who dine in upscale restaurants don 't expect to get a table if they don 't have a confirmed reservation, so they don 't try unless they know a restaurant 's owner, enjoy celebrity status

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    misfortunes are still affecting them in present day. The book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie follows a young Indian boy through his experiences on an Indian reservation. in the short stories Alexie demonstrates the good, the bad, and the ugly of what goes on native American reservations. There is a deep longing of men to be warriors, because they have a need to get ahead of their tragic history, and survive the harsh societies that try to keep them down, as second class

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    forcefully and often brutally put into small reservations outside of normal civilization. Many Americans might not think of this as a big deal since this affects only a minimal part of the population. Little do many people know, in 2010 there were 5.2 million people in the United States who identified themselves as American Indian. (1) Twenty-two percent of whom, live on the government bounded reservations. While, most Native Americans that don’t live on the reservation are located very close by (1). The fact

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    Alcantar, & Stage, 2015). Best way to demonstrate is like a human going to Mars and having to live there with other lifeforms, if there were any, basically for Native Americans it is like a completely different world to be in when they leave the reservation. It makes it hard for the Native American student to connect with other students from different backgrounds and eventually not just ruining them socially but even academically making them drop out (Faircloth, Alcantar, & Stage, 2015). This kind

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    Sherman Alexie’s collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, captures many different insights into human nature through life on a Native American Reservation. Originally published in 1993, Alexie writes these twenty-one fictional short stories with the artifice of one who has experienced such scenarios first-hand. Throughout these stories, there are many recurring motifs. While love, hate, family, poverty, and personal struggle are all prominent, there is a theme that binds the

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