While Halloween has its origins in pagan and Christian traditions, Day of the Dead has indigenous roots as a celebration of ...

And it is this phenomenal expenditure which Jessica Mitford examines in The American Way of Death. Her findings are ... and produce results. "A new mythology, essential to the twentieth-century ...

In addition to being a writer, Zitkala-Ša also trained and performed as a concert violinist and composer, including ...

And Jesus said to him: Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou, and preach the kingdom of God. And another said ... and the Church-run schools for native children were systemically underfunded ...

An Algiers, Louisiana, native born in 1926 ... His lampooning of Young Americans for Freedom—“The Acne and the Ecstasy”—is still a hoot. YAFers, he wrote in Esquire, are hopelessly ...

The first face of the first Americans belongs to an unlucky teenage girl who fell to her death in a Yucatán cave ... after the water nymphs of Greek mythology—turned out to be one of the ...

thanking God that the battle had been won.” Any sense of harmony and collaboration was over. European settlers stole Native American land and exploited its natural resources, as well as forcing ...

The FBI became involved in what became known as the Second Siege at Wounded Knee, and a tense standoff resulted in the death of two Native Americans and injury to others on both sides.

Before his death, he was heavily involved in the Veterans of Foreign Wars and presided over funerals for veterans on behalf of the VFW. Native American veterans participate in opening ceremonies ...

Race and Representation: Euro-American Depictions ... and indirectly caused his death when he was said to have mistakenly consumed nitric acid thinking it was liquor, fed into the racial myths and ...

What kept Native ... to American Indians. It also took life! People learned that working together, and hunting together, was extremely important! Living alone on the plains meant certain death.