Tribe Term Papers Samples For Students

When the Past and Present Collide - Can One Speak of World Civilizing?

Looking back into millennia of human history, historians and academics in general are keen to view the process of human development as evolution and progression. In this context, academics are likely to argue that the world is moving towards civilizing and subsequent improvement of inter-human relations. This statement has its reasons for existence, and, in fact, the experience of the last century has proved that total war would simply mean annihilation of human being from the face of the Earth. On the other hand, interpersonal conflicts remained an every-day reality of contemporary societies. Another argument against pacification of human ...

Managing Environmental Issues Simulation

Managing Environmental Issues Simulation
Colney and Pitts is a California based pharmaceutical company generating annual sales of $50 million. It is the chief producer in America of herbal remedies for prostate illnesses like prostate cancer, prostatitis, benign prostatic hypertrophy, incontinence, dysuria, polyuria and nycturia. The company has learned that the Pygeum or Prunus Africana can be found in Aberdares mountain ranges in eastern highlands of Kenya. With this information, the company wants to build a manufacturing plant near the mountain ranges.
It has been known that the Pygeum or Prunus Africana can be used as an alternative medicine for ...

Introduction

When the European settlers came to North America, it was already inhabited by an indigenous group of people. In the 19th century white Americans came with the idea of Manifest Destiny and in order to realize their idea of possessing the entire continent of North America, they began removing Native Americans from their ancestral homeland into reserved territories for the Indians. The US government initiated the One Big Reservation policy in 1851 and according to this policy Native Americans were to shift into 'One Big Reservation' but the constant migration of European settlers, the evolution of transportation technology which ...

Imagine living on earth during a time when there was no electricity. A time with absolutely the bare minimum of any type of light pollution and just pure night time darkness. A time that when the sun set, a celestial showcase revealed a blanket of studded diamonds, twinkling in the night with splendor beyond belief. The wild, the magic, the miracles of survival; all captured in the cycle of day and night. The closet star to Earth, our Sun, feeds the planet with energy and warmth and the night sky illuminates the senses with creativity, wonder and storytelling. A ...

Past, Present, and Future

The Significance of American Indian Ceremonies:
Past, Present, and Future

Introduction

Every ceremony in the Native American culture plays a vital and significant role, especially with its people. Some individuals outside the culture often referred the ceremonies as a religion, however, most Native Americans considered their ceremonies as beliefs and practices. The beliefs and practices are part of their rich culture, an integral part of their being, and strongly influenced by their unique methods of living such as acquiring for food, hunting, and agriculture. Every Native American who practiced the tradition and culture believed that their ceremonies could help them ...

Gender relations have only slightly changed in the midst of the growing complexity of human societies through the centuries. Women remain the primary caregivers and are expected by their society to be responsible for child and infant care whether it be in subsistence economies or in modern day stateshood. However, men’s traditional roles of hunting, construction, political leadership, and even combat have slowly become shared with women as societies become politically and economically more complex.

Subsistence economies

In subsistence economies, males conduct hunting activities while their female counterparts gather wild plants for food. Both of them can together collect shellfish ...

Crazy Horse was an Oglala Sioux Indian chief who was born in 1840 and under the Native American name Tashunka Witco near South Dakota. He got his name from his father, who was also named Crazy Horse after he showed the strong skills of a warrior. The Oglala Sioux Indian chief fought against the Black Hills reservations. He was known to be a fearless leader and remained committed to defending his people's way of life. The leader of the Lakota Sioux was also a legendary warrior who is known for his efforts to preserve Native American traditions and Lakota life that he was ...

Abstract

The project deals with the problem of etiquette along with various forms that it implies. Table, business, and greeting etiquette are the focal points of the research. Apart from the norms of socially acceptable conduct, the project contains the overview of such essential aspects as history, geography, population, religion, and industry. The project is based on the opinions of the leading subject-field experts and specialists that major in history, demography, sociology, ethics, and affiliated disciplines.
Keywords: Mexico, etiquette, conduct, geography, history, population, religion
Etiquette is a set of rules and conventions that regulates human social behavior acceptable in ...

Political Science

Politics Stream
The lack of government response after the passage of Affordable Act of 2010 (ACA) is in relation to the insufficiency of the government funding to provide long-term care for all U.S. citizens. The best way to address this issue is by implementing policies to lower the costs of healthcare and make it economical for all (Patel & Rushefsky, 2014). The actors that are involved in this issue are the Democrats and the Republicans. The competing values and philosophies of policy actors of the Democrats and Republicans sought different actions. On the part of the Democrats, they have ...

An appreciation of the period of the disguise of the Pandavas during their exile, when the five princes and the princess lived in the kingdom of Matsya, involves an appreciation of the variety of characters with heroic traits and varied personalities, acknowledging the epic theme of the battle between the divine and the evil, understanding the importance of kinship in Indian literature , listing out the didactic concepts, highlighting the formal elevated language and the repeated use of literary devices and above all enjoying the intriguing story line of the narrative.
Sanskrit, which was considered to be a scholarly language, ...

The experience of Josiah Harlan inspired Rudyard Kipling to write “the man who would be king”, in this story, Harlan is depicted as Daniel Dravot and in 1975 a film was based on the book. Harlan’s experience also inspired Ben Macintyre to write the book “the first American in Afghanistan” in 2004. The book only partly depicts Harlan’s experience and part of the story is fiction. This paper analyses fiction in the book and film compared to the experience of Harlan in Afghanistan as depicted by the book by Macintyre (2004).

Bibliography of Josiah Harlan

Josiah Harlan was born in the year ...

Introduction.

In November 29, 1864, a contingent of seven hundred white American troops attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in Colorado killing an estimated 163 Indians1. It is one of the recorded atrocities of war during the Indian American Wars. In this massacre, the Colorado Territory Army Regiment managed to kill such a large number of Indians most of whom were women and children. The attack did not just stop at the killings; the bodies of the victims were mutilated. An Indian leader, referred to a tribal chief, Lean Bear, who was one of the negotiators of peace together with President Abraham ...

Introduction.

In November 29, 1864, a contingent of seven hundred white American troops attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in Colorado killing an estimated 163 Indians1. It is one of the recorded atrocities of war during the Indian American Wars. In this massacre, the Colorado Territory Army Regiment managed to kill such a large number of Indians most of whom were women and children. The attack did not just stop at the killings; the bodies of the victims were mutilated. An Indian leader, referred to a tribal chief, Lean Bear, who was one of the negotiators of peace together with President Abraham ...