..."Who were the Native Americans?" Task: You and three partners will choose a Native American tribe. You will research your tribe and write the answers to the questions below. You will place your research findings into a brochure for your "tribe". 1. You will use your text book, library and Internet resources to locate information about your tribe. 2. How did this Native American Tribe have an impact or influence on the history of America? Your job is to locate the information to answer the questions. 3. Now it's your turn to be the teacher! Using the information you have collected, create and present to your classmates a brochure which includes the following information: Each project should contain the following information on your selected...
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...opinions regarding what is appropriate for students’ fashion and appearance. The last 60 years have seen numerous transformations in the way students dress within the public school system. In the 1950s students dressed modestly and wore what would today be considered Sunday best clothes. Today’s students go to school with cleavage, midriffs, and undergarments exposed and wear clothes that have been intentionally cut-up or torn for the purpose of fashion. In the last two decades the discussion on student dress has been focused on creating a safe and professional atmosphere for students to learn in. School uniforms and dress codes are competent ways to improve discipline and motivation amongst students in school and do not limit the way students express their individuality. History of School Uniforms School uniforms have a long history not only in the United States, but elsewhere around the world. One of the first countries to originate the use of school uniforms was England. In the year 1222 the archbishop of Canterbury mandated that all English scholars dress in robes that resembled those of a monk. It is from this initial uniform that today’s high school and university graduates model graduation robes after. Soon after the archbishop of Canterbury required English students to wear uniforms, hospitals throughout England employed uniforms to assist in the clothing of poor children and promote compliance (Weber, 2009). [pic] Native American students at Carlisle...
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...Native Americans: Cherokee Are you or someone you know related to the Native American Tribe: Cherokee? There is a great chance that you yourself or someone you know is related to the Cherokee people in some way. The Cherokee people have a long history in the United States. They are believed to have been living here thousands of years before anyone even journeyed to North America. Despite their rough history the Cherokee Native American Tribe has stayed strong through their culture, Traditions, and way of life. The Cherokee Native American Tribe have a long, rough history starting all the way back to when they contacted with the Europeans back in the 16th century. Although they have a rough history, the Cherokee Native Americans have been...
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...recreated into a piece of clothing that is nothing more than a mainstream aesthetic apparel. High-waisted shorts were reintroduced in 2011, and oddly have been embraced by young women all across the nation, despite the previous norm of low-rise denim. Levi brand jeans first manufactured this unique style of short apparel in the early 1940s for women who were working in the fields while the men in their families were at war (Alvaranga 1). The high waist was designed to cover a woman’s midriff while still providing the comfort of wearing shorts in the heat. This functional garment carried into the 1950s as a fashion trend. Now, over 70 years after their inception, high-waisted shorts are designed in a variety of fabrics and styles for all occasions. A more controversial example of re-appropriation in today’s fashion is the use of “tribal” designs. Native Americans are known for their use of feathers, beading, and geometric patterns in their attire. This was first re-appropriated during the hippie movement of the 1960s. Hippies wore clothing from Native traditions as an expression of a generation free from societal restriction (Maggie 1). Also including East Asian traditions as a form of counter culture. In recent years, Native American culture has been commoditized in the form of accessories and clothing with traditional Native American symbols as well as the mass production of moccasins. This type of appropriation can be very offensive to Native Americans, especially considering...
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...Minnesota State University- Mankato Traditional Grass Dance Ashley Silva Humanities 281W: Human Diversity and Humanities Traditions Jeris Swanhorst July 6, 2014 As history will prove, many cultures have been immortalized through various artistic means. Many include the written word or preserved artwork. The many tribes of Native Americans choose to commemorate their history and honor their ancestors through the art of dance. One of the most popular dance styles for Native Americans known today is the ‘Grass Dance’. While its exact origins are not known, there are still several pieces of information that can be used to piece together the history. Several sources believe the dance began in the Northern region; ‘the dance was given to the Dakota by the Ponca about three hundred years ago at a place just east of the Black hills of South Dakota’ (Howard, 82). An approximation places this time frame around the year of 1860. As more participants began to experience and learn the dance style, the influence and knowledge of the dance began to spread. The dance reached the Blackfeet tribe in the 1870s, and eventually the Gros Ventre tribe around 1875-1880. From the 1920s to after World War II, an economic change in the United States had a greater impact on the nature of the grass dance. Many of the ceremonial traditions of the dance were lost during this time period and transformed into more of an entertainment form of dance. Along with these changes also came the involvement...
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...The native Americans are usually looked at like savages, slaves, uncivilized people. But nobody ever proved that to be true. Everything written about the Indians from the time before the Europeans came was written by Europeans themselves. As Europeans saw nothing in Indians other then slaves, land owner and savages, they were regarded for only the bad qualities of their civilization and often exaggerated by the hating Europeans Defining civilization in both the art of living in cities, and being able to satisfy the needs of the culture and tribe of the native Americans, in both prospects native Americans were “civilized”. So were Europeans- they needed gadgets, and they made gadgets, and it was a need of their culture and most of them would be pretty useless for native Americans Indians were judged for being civilized against their clothes and was behavior. The European culture was to wear clothes covering near the entire body. But Indians didn't need that. They were hunting and it would make their moves tighter if they had to wear everything the Europeans did. Also the climate was very different which also made an impact of the native American clothing. The environment was different-and the civilization was different too – not the stages but the type. We know that Indians were sorted by different tribes. Each tribe commonly had its permanent house, but the Indians traveled a lot within the continent during the year. The tribes were structured too. There was a chief, who together...
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...Native American Culture: The European Influence One theme that rings throughout many of Leslie Marmon Silko’s writings in the book ‘Storyteller’ is the Pueblo relationship with the White Man, their ability/inability to comply with each other, and the destructiveness of contact between cultures. Throughout the book, it is made known that the European presence in American Indian culture is real. The first thing one can notice when flipping through this book is that it is loaded with photographs. These photographs give visualizations of the influence the Europeans have had on the lifestyle of the native people. Unlike what one might picture, most people in these photographs are not covered in traditional Indian clothing. They wear bowties, blue jeans, shiny shoes, and button-down shirts tucked into their pants. Some of them wear glasses and some wear wide brimmed hats. They pose for family photos, they pose in front of automobiles, and they pose with complex gadgets like cameras and firearms. In the introduction to this book, Silko is sure to make the reader aware of the white man’s system to force the assimilation of the Indians. She states that “in the early twentieth century the Pueblo men and boys who were caught participating in the religious activities of the Kiva were arrested and imprisoned by the authorities. (xxiii)” The lack of male presence caused severe hardship for families and many of the very young and the elderly died of starvation. This severely affected...
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...Parillo’s main argument in his second chapter of Diversity in America is that many Americans fall victim to to stereotypes when thinking about a diverse group of people like the Native Americans. Native American depictions in movies like Dances with Wolves (1990) are repeatedly branded as warriors on horsebacks who wear feathers and live in tipis. Although some of these depictions in movies and people’s minds are based on reality, Parillo argues that these depictions represent only a few possible realities of the hundreds of tribes that existed in aboriginal America. Just because a particular tribe hunted buffalo, does not mean that every last native relied on buffalo as a main food source. To support his argument that Native Americans are victims of broad generalizations, Parillo gives examples of how diverse and multicultural these groups of people were to prove to his readers that not all natives were and are the same....
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...University Dr. I. Hunt August 1, 2013 An assimilation and multicultural society that we are living in is taking on new meaning of what was, is, and will be to be an American. At one time, North America was the land of Native Americans who had their own customs that eventually was invaded by the Europeans. A set of people that when they came over to North America, had to be led by the Native Americans and the ways of their land to survive. Once the Europeans began to master the land, they took the land little by little from the Native Americans and changed it to their own way of living. They then incorporated their way of living on the new land, even with slavery. Taking from others what didn’t belong to them, making change and calling it their own. The Europeans are what we call modern day bullies. One particular culture, African was a group that was assimilated by the Europeans. They were stripped of their customs and forced to live the way that Europeans wanted them to live. Africans lost the rich heritage of their color and culture. Their color was assimilated, and the range of the melanin of their skin went from a heavy dark color to have very faint light color and many shades in between. This happened because the slave’s master raped and bedded the African women. This wasn’t an instant change in color, but over time, the color changed. What was meant for bad and pleasure for “the man”, is now a wide range of beautiful colors that even the Europeans are now trying to get...
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...(Bench Assessment) Heritage assessment Pamela Taylor Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion Nursing 429 Leslie Minjarez March 18, 2015 (Bench Assessment) Heritage assessment In the seventies, growing up in the inner-city ghetto of Baltimore, Maryland lived in a dilapidated, rat, and roach infested home. In addition, attended public schools, monopoly of corner store that sold unhealthy foods and observing on the streets men shooting dice for money. As nurses, we should be culturally sensitive to our patient’s needs and build a trusting patient-nurse relationship. Today this paper will evaluate the common health traditions and practices based on cultural heritage, compare and contrast cultural practices and traditions and address health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. Usefulness of Applying a Heritage Assessment Different people from everywhere in the world are generating the population of the United States. (“APHA”, 2007) The purpose of applying a Heritage Assessment is to care for a patient mind, body and spirit with the help of the nursing staff, physicians, and social work. Moreover, a heritage assessment can help a patient’s, or a health practitioner’s to get a better interpretation of national, cultural and spiritual customs. Direct connection with all patient and their families is crucial. These historic practices include a state of harmony between the patient, family, and the community. There...
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...Michael Omi’s article argues against the belief that racism is something that happened in the past, and proves that it is still prevalent in our society today. In order for us to understand that what we have today isn’t just a matter of isolated incidents of racism, Omi looks at the distinction between overt and inferential racism, with overt being a much more blatant, recognizable racism, and inferential being a more invisible system of racism. Although overt racism is something that many can distinguish and acknowledge, inferential racism on the other hand is often overlooked. Today’s popular culture- film, television, music, and even common household objects- reveal a system of racism that consists of stereotypical racial ideology. All of the points brought up in the article were something that I could recognize immediately and relate to what I’ve seen myself in popular culture today. I was reminded of a recent controversy I had heard about over the new Peter Pan reboot that will be released in summer 2015, with the casting of white actor Rooney Mara, for the role of the Native American character, Tiger Lily. In fact, all of Tiger Lily’s tribe in the film is portrayed by white actors. Their clothing fails to represent traditional Native American wear, and seems to consist of stereotypical bright colors and lots of feathers. The only people of color in the film played minor supporting roles. I felt that this was a real life example of how “White people are allowed to play anybody”...
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...this, Spaniards brought many diseases to the natives, which killed most of the population. In 1809, Quito's people began to try to separate, but were quickly destroyed. In 1820, they tried to become independent with the help of Simon Bolivar. On May 24, 1822, Bolivar's lieutenant, Antonio Jose de Sucre, defeated Pichincha and Ecuador gained independency. After gaining independence, Ecuador joined Gran Colombia, but soon separated in 1830. The first president was Juan Jose Flores. A great depression occurred in 1930, just like other countries in the world such as the United States. "In 2008 Ecuador adopted a new constitution, and suffered in the recession of 2009" (Lambert). Ecuador has many different cultural aspects such as special foods eaten in the area. In the higher areas of Ecuador, foods contain cheese, potatoes, corn, and avocadoes. Some common platers are llapingachos, fried potatoes and cheese with egg on the side, and, locro which is a soup. A very famous dish is called "cuy", which is a guinea pig. Around the coast, the people of Ecuador have many different types of fruit, which include starfruit and papaya. One of the most famous seafood dishes is encocados, which is fish in coconut sauce on top of rice. On important holidays, the people cook special foods. On the Day of the Dead, painted bread is eaten. On Easter, soup and fanesca are served with many other ingredients (Traditional Dishes of Ecuador). An everyday wear of an Ecuadorian include a hat, blouse, and...
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...toe of an overboot stashed deep in a dark closet, or does he? High up on the prairie hill do the nuns lambaste the young girls because of the darkness of the devil within them or because the children are displaying the last vestiges of their Native American heritage? In Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine, Marie Lazarre is forced to confront a meeting of two cultures. What the reader initially sees as a struggle between good and evil transforms into a battle between religion and heritage. Marie enters the convent knowing of the “darkness” inside her, yet in her naiveté and ignorance “the length of the sky…pure and wide” (43) do not allow her to realize the implications of her inner “darkness” in her future. Under Sister Leopolda’s watchful eye, any minute “comings and goings” (45) of the girls’ native ways become a reason for punishment and agony. Marie’s attempts to succeed under Leopolda’s regime only lead to her regression back to the Native American strength and stoicism that have become a source of evil in the eyes of the nuns. Restrained in the closet, Marie calls upon “the Dark One to enter [her]…and restrain [her tears]” (47) yet she tries in vain. Gradually, Leopolda’s endeavors to purge each girl of her heathen heritage slowly wear away at Marie’s strength and resilience. Leopolda offers Marie two paths by which to lead the rest of her life, to “marry a no-good Indian, bear his brats, and die like a dog” (48) or to “give [herself] to God.” (48) Marie’s decision will ultimately...
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...Mercies”, “Fringe Dweller” and etc.. The film, “Black Robe” is set in New France in 1634, when Samuel de Champlain, founder of the settlement sends French Jesuit, Father Laforge a non jesuit, Daniel along with their Algonquin allies on a mission to convert the Native in the Huron village. Samuel Champlain sends them on this mission because the Natives are “savages” and “uncivilized” that need to be converted. An experienced traveler, Chamina leads the group through their mission, however his dream about Father Laforge killing him is what makes his perception change on the mission and Catholicism. Mishaps and problems arise because of the religious and cultural differences between Father Laforge and the Algonquins. As the movie continues the viewer is abruptly introduced to another native culture when Father Laforge, Daniel and the Algonquins are taken into captivity by the Iroquois to be then saved by a heroin and Chomina daughter, Annucka. Furthermore, the observer also gains an understanding of not only the discrepancies between the Jesuits and the Algonquins, but the Algonquins and the Iroquois. In all, the film, “Black Robe”, accurately challenge the cultural differences that occurred during the conversions of the Native peoples and the consequences that transpired. I believe that the movie was a very accurate portrayal of the Iroquois...
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...Research Paper While traditional Native American dance and the Polynesian dance are both unique to their cultures, a developed comparison reveals they share many similarities in technique and meaning. In this essay, I will evaluate these similarities along with the differences that make each dance unique to its people and their culture. “Dance is a poem in which each movement is a word and is the most hidden language of the soul” this was found searching the web for what others felt the meaning of dance meant to them. An interesting fact about cultures and dance is that dance was used to express how they felt and emit their own expression of themselves. One thing that both Native American and Polynesian both have in common are they both believe in the spirits of their ancestors. When the Polynesian's danced the Hula they thought that if done incorrectly that something would happen and may turn disastrous while Native American dance specifically for a reason and believed if they asked for thanks for necessities they would acquire it. Both dances were created for one reason and one reason only to ask for help spiritually. Native American culture and the way they danced were entirely for their Gods, basically as an offering to show how important they were and how much their Gods were believed in. As the Polynesians too were spiritual and wouldn’t dance until an elder blessed the area in which would be danced upon, they also danced to perform for their people as entertainment...
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