During the Second Great Awakening in the 19th century, there had been a Christian religious revival in the United States, whereby religious leaders appealed directly to the populace, regardless of social status. Where religious leaders had long been aristocrats and those of the higher order, those of the Second Great...

The Mohican, a branch of the Mahican Tribe, once occupied lands in the Hudson Valley from Poughkeepsie to Albany, including the Catskill Mountains, in what is now New York State. Living near the Hudson River and its banks, the Mohican relied heavily on the resources provided by the river, including...

The Puritan narratives of the early American settlers often depicted the Native Indians as brutal savages, equating the Natives with the devil, attributing to them wicked, inhuman deeds. Specifically, the captivity narrative of Puritan Mary Rowlandson advances these notions and leads the settlers to stereotype the Indian Natives as savage...

Brief Summary of the Book The book dwells on the relationship between racism, which is a vice, and colonialism in reference to the manner in which the two concepts helped in shaping the lives of the indigenous people of Canada. In essence, the racism which was propagated by colonialism affected...

Definition of Indigenous peopleThe term indigenous means Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place. Most writers describe indigenous as a harmonious, stable relationship and a sense of strong affiliation to a particular place (Encyclopedia Britannica 2). The affiliation to that particular place is so strong because the current people...