Essays on Tribe

A tribe as used by Godin refers to an ensemble of people who are connected to each other, a leader or even an idea. Godin argues that behind every successful venture there has to be well directed and guided tribes. He asserts that tribes are very imperative in realising and bringing about lasting effects in organizations (Godin, 2008). He outlines that one way through which one can generate life changing ideas is by gathering like-minded individuals, and leading them towards their desired destination. He further postulates that currently, through the internet, the geographical barriers can be overcome and connecting with ...

Introduction

The Haida tribe, also referred to as the Hydah people are an indigenous ethnic group that lived in North America, specifically, the Pacific Northwest Coast. The principal territory of the Haida people is the Queen Charlotte Islands, presently known as the archipelago of the Hydah Gwaii. The Hydah Gwaii is in the northern area of the British Columbia. Other people that are thought to be related to the Haida people are the Kaigan Haida. The Kaigan Haida inhabited the area around the Dixon Entrance in the Prince of Wales Island, Southeast Alaska. It is estimated that before coming ...

History

The Cocopah tribe, otherwise known as Kwapa meaning ‘river people’ is a group of people living along the river Colorado in Arizona. These people are collectively described as generous with no materialistic characteristics. The Cocopah tribes have tried to maintain their cultural and religious beliefs despite the changing times. They have been able to withstand political waves to remain united with their common belief and culture. The Indian tribe is a sub-tribe of the Yunan language speakers who lived and occupied the areas bordering Colorado River. The ancestors of this tribe also resided along Colorado River near the Gulf of California. ...

The Yanomamo society is one of the largest ethnic groups that reside in the tropical forests of South America. The tribe lives in 250-300 smaller villages on the border of Brazil and Venezuela. The Yanomamo tribe is the most primitive society in the world. They have managed to live in isolation without interference from the outside world and retain their native patterns . They live in the remotest villages of Brazil. Before 1000 years, the Yanomamo tribe resided along the rivers of Parima and Orinoco. 700 years ago, they split into several divisions and developed different languages. Currently, there are ...

The Nation -

The Seminole tribe is the product of an ethno-cultural blending of the Creek peoples from the lower-central Southeast with indigenous Floridian tribes such as the Choctaw, Timuquan and Apalachicolas, some of whom were part of the Muschogean culture. The meaning of the word “Seminole” has been interpreted, loosely, as “runaway” or “broken off” (McReynolds 1957, 12). This refers to the separation of the Lower Creek peoples from the larger tribe, as described by an 18th-century observer. “Runaway,” reported historian Wiley Thompson, was “applicable to all the Indians in the Territory of Florida as all of them ran awayfrom the ...

Social, Political, Cultural and Economic Issues

“The Struggle of Naga Tribe” is one of the most famous plays in Indonesian literature history. The play was written and performed by Willy Brordus Surendro Rendra, one of the greatest writers and dramatists of Indonesia origin. Rendra tries to awaken his countrymen to their rights and set them against developments that are taking place around them. The play is satirical in nature and yet describes several crucial issues in a communicative manner. It reveals several hypocrisies and compels people to think over social, political, cultural, and economic issues in a new perspective. This is a paper on the play “The Struggle ...

The Hualapai tribe, or nation of American Indians are a sovereign people located in the southwestern section of the United States. More specifically, their lands lie within the northwestern part of Arizona. The name of this tribe is pronounced “Wah-lah-pie” and according to the information on their official website, the significance of its meaning translates to “People of the Tall Pines” (“About Hualapai Tribe”). The total acreage of the Hualapai reservations lands covers approximately one million acres. The geographical elevation and features span the gamut from grassy lands, hillsides, canyons, and bushy forested terrain. The total number of the Hualapai members ...

The Native American history and culture as we know it is rich and vibrant. Often mistaken for savages who had nothing better to do than scalp intruders and run naked through the woods, Native Americans were more civilized than first documented . Each tribe, large or small, was a society unto itself. They had forms of counsel, or government, and different tools they would use to maintain order and assign jobs. They planted crops, hunted, and continued their survival based on what the land was willing to give. When not concerned with survival, however, the Native Americans began to cultivate different ...

Introduction

Adolph Lorenz Dial is one of the most respected and well known Lumbee scholar who struggled for rights of the People of Lumbee tribe. Adolph Lorenz Dial was one of the ‘Great depression children who in his lifetime struggled against all odds to become one of the top educators in the country. Adolph Lorenz Dial had served the education industry holding different positions including that of teacher, professor, and educator.

Vision, persistence, and passion of Adolph Lorenz Dial

Adolph Lorenz Dial believed that it is only education that can make people more aware about the other cultures and communities that coexist in the society. This will help ...

The report concentrates on the beliefs of the Dogon people which still manage to baffle researches all around the world. It appears that the Dogon people had considerable knowledge about a certain star that cannot be seen with a human eye under any circumstances unless specific equipment such as telescopes are involved. The way through which the tribe acquired such specific knowledge of the star and the immediate bodies that surround it remains open to the discussion. The tribe could have acquired the knowledge either by themselves or have claimed some information from another civilization. The phenomenon of travelling myths is ...

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of a cultural experience in the classroom combined with the cross cultural learning experience on the cultural attitudes of individuals’ towards other cultures. The study will focus on the Lakota Indian culture both historical perspective and current happenings in regard to this tribe. The Lakota Indians are an indigenous tribe in the Native America who resides in the northern region of the United States. They are part of the 3 major dialects Sioux tribes which are Nakota, Dakota and Lakota. They are known for their warrior and hunting culture. The ...

1

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, who was born in 1876, was an educated and very influential Native American woman. She belonged to the Yankton Sioux tribe and was sent off to study in a missionary school at the age of eight. The writer struggled and faced many hardships at the time when prejudice prevailed towards the culture and traditions of the Native Americans. The women were the ones who suffered the most. When she began to write, Gertrude adopted the name ‘Zitkala-Sa’ as her pen name. She began to publish her work criticising The Carlisle Indian School from the 1900s. Her ...

The time is March 2004 and the place is Paraguay. It is there, where a group of hunter-gatherers, quite possibly one of the few willingly isolated societies in the planet, came running out of the forest in northern Paraguay, escaping from ranchers' earthmovers. The Gran Chaco forest, which means "hunting land" in the Quechua language, the language of the people, is a thinly inhabited, warm and semi-arid coastal natural area of the Río de la Plata basin, shared among Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, where it is attached to the Pantanal region. This area is often called the Chaco ...

Question 1

A federally recognized tribe particularly in United States is a tribe that has a direct relationship with the government, additionally; a federally recognized tribe subsist politically. This tribe is normally perceived to be a domestic dependent nation. Such tribe enjoy the privileges of exercising intrinsic rights of self-government, and federally accepted benefits that include protection and free services. On the other hand, a federally unrecognized tribe is a tribe that was not in existence, and did not succeed a tribe during the original contact with the Whiteman. The federally unrecognized tribe, therefore, has limited privileges compared to the federally recognized tribe. Federal recognition became vital in ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Mohawks American Indians are an integral part of the great history of this nation, but many of us in the modern world just view them via various stereotypes. Most people know little about the history of the native tribes who lived for many centuries in this land, and were almost exterminated upon the arrival of Europeans. Before 1492, when Columbus landed on the American continent, historians estimate that there were anywhere between seven to twenty five million Native Americans inhabiting this continent. Sadly ninety percent of this population has been erased by illness, hunger, battles and relocation. ...

Individual Project

The experience of indigenous tribes must have been very bad when the European colonialists started entering their regions. Although the Native Americans had no weaponry to match that of the Europeans they were attacked when the colonialists felt it was necessary to take their land. On the other hand there were colonists that did not want to take over and take everything. Scott L. Malcomson (2000) the author of One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race writes that many encounters on a face-to-face level did not involve any violence. Some of the European colonists accepted the American Indians ...

Culture and education

Culture is one of the basic units that dictate a person’s way of living and approach to certain situations in life. It usually incorporates norms and taboos which outline the way the people of a certain community live as a unit and as an individual. This makes culture to have great influence on education of people from a community (Ralph, 1969). Therefore, we are to explore the influence of culture on education in one African tribe, the Zulus from South Africa.

The Zulus is a tribe from South Africa which can be further classified as a Bantu tribe. The tribe has some cultural aspects ...

Introduction

Early Years of King Shaka Under Service to Dingiswayo Leadership and Military under King Shaka Death of King Shaka and Legacy Conclusion

References

Introduction In this paper, I shall discuss the impact of King Shaka Zulu’s reign in Southern Africa. Specifically taking into account how Shaka was able to use his military genius and political acumen to establish the Zulu Kingdom and stabilize his reign. The purpose of this paper is to discover as to how Shaka struggled to give a name for himself before he became ruler, and how he used his power to ...

Each nation has its myth about the creation of the world and human beings. Native Americans are not an exception. Each of the tribe has its own vision on the beginning of the Earth life. Let’s compare two stories on the world creation of two Great American Tribes and consider factors that influenced their minds. Firstly, let’s get acquainted with the legend of the Wyandots or Hurons. According to it, there was nothing except the water. Only the wide, wide sea was spread. Animals were the only inhabitants of it. They lived on the water, under ...

Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Lewis and Clark expedition would go where no American had gone before. The journey ventured through the last greatest wilderness of the world. Many believed that Woolly Mammoths still existed and it was unknown what plants and species would be found. It was well known that Native Indians had lived there for centuries. The journey was funded by President Thomas Jefferson who was looking for a way for America to expand into the west of the country. He chose his chief aid Meriwether Lewis as the captain of the expedition because he was a soldier and woodsmen. Lewis asked William ...

Saudi Arabia is one of the diverse countries of the world, which provides habitat for various kinds of tribes. The paper gives a brief classification about the different kinds of tribes present in Saudi Arabia. The tribal system in Saudi Arabia is complex and its intricate details are hard to find. Each tribe belongs to a specified geographic area where the people of the tribe control the water-holes and pastures . The people of other tribes can pass the area only with permission or arm force. On the death of the head of the family the sons divide into several small sections. ...

Richard. C Richardson Jr. in his paper Helping first-generation minority students achieve degrees Richardson drew his conclusions the thesis that helping first-generation minority students achieve degrees “require nontraditional strategies.” (Richardson, 3). This agrees with James. A Larimore’s research that financial aid and scholarships are needed as a broad strategy to retain Native American student enrollment. The benefits have been demonstrated, but the process is important in order for potential students can access the benefits of academic aid. (Larimore, 2) This various on factors of tribe affiliated with, organization giving the aid, institution and generational affiliation with a specific tribe. This ...

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 ...

Native Americans are the indigenous people of America. They had lived in America for thousands of years before the Europeans began exploring the continent in the 15th century. The Native Americans are made up of numerous distinct American tribes and ethnic groups. They are categorized as the American Indians or Indians, the native Hawaiians, and the Alaskan Natives. Currently, the Navajo tribe is the largest Native American tribe of the North American Indians. The first part of this paper discusses the Navajo tribe. It provides a brief history of the tribe, highlights where they originated from, and reveals where they ...

God save this honorable court: How the Choice of Supreme Court Justices Shapes Our History is acclaimed book, written by Laurence Henry Tribe, a Harvard law school professor of constitutional law and US Supreme Court barrister who has been associated with the field of law for a long time. Laurence Tribe is an eminent scholar of constitutional law who has authored luminous books on the subject and has been appeared a number of times before the Supreme Court in renowned cases. One thing which is observable in his writings is that he does not write as scholar but he writes as a lawyer ...

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 ...

The Native American culture is diverse and robust following hundreds of tribes present in the United States of America. Despite the availability of diverse and numerous tribes, the Native Americans in United States possess and share almost common cultural and traditional characteristics. The indigenous and original people of America can be grouped into different numbers of cultural areas. The people occupying different regions can be said to belong to different cultures, tribes and traditions. The regions include the Alaska native, the Central United States, Western United States, and the Eastern United States. On the basis of the ethnolinguistic classification, ...

Introduction

The Dogona tribe lives in Bandiagara escarpment, south of the Niger River in Mali. It is approximated to comprise of more than 300,000 individuals (Douny 17). Besides it is regarded as the ancient tribe of Egypt. They are a primitive tribe, metal workers, artisans and onion farmers. As much as the Dogona society has been well distanced from the contact of the outside world, their culture constitutes a kind of spiritual aspects for several important religious traditions from the ancient times (Douny 20). On the other hand, there exists the Dagara tribe of West Africa. The Dagara tribe classified its ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Native American Research Introduction American Indians are an integral part of the great history of this nation, and learning about their culture and lifestyle, will offer us valuable insights into our cultural past. Before the European colonization (1492), estimates say that, there were close to twenty five million Native Americans inhabiting the American continent. Sadly most of these indigenous tribes have been erased by diseases, famine, conflicts and rehabilitation. Every tribe has its own history and cultural heritage, and to know about them, would help us in empathizing with their struggle for survival. The aim of this ...

‘The Law of Life’ by Jack London is an enigmatic story focusing on survival and continuity of species. This story is written in context of an ancient Indian tribe that believes the needs of the society and that of nature surpass individual wants. London narrates the attitude towards life that is adopted by this ancient tribe, through the ageing life of their old chieftain Koskoosh. In this story, the principles of naturalism and the cycle of life are clearly brought out. This paper intends to analyze and bring out the concepts laid out in the short story, ‘Law of ...

‘Instructor’s name’

Hollywood Indians- A Man Called Horse ‘A Man Called Horse’, is a movie directed by Elliot Silverstein, made in the year 1970. It is based on the novel of the same title published in the year 1968, by Dorothy Marie Johnson. The story of the film is about an English man named John Morgan, portrayed by Richard Harris, who goes on a hunting trip in the interior West of the USA. He is captured by a Native American tribe headed by Yellow Hand and he is made a slave/horse to a woman named Buffalo Cow Head. Morgan’s various attempts to escape foils ...

1.a According to hotel Rwanda, Paul who is from the descendants of Hutu is married to a Tutsi, Tatiana. However, it is evident from the movie that there exists enmity between the two tribes. Paul is left to head the hotel after the workers were deported to their countries. Later, the hotel is turned into a makeshift refugee camp. As the refugees increase, divided ideologies and insecurity start to emerge. 1.b.a Baba is the biological father of Amir even though the two do not have a strong relationship. However, Baba’s closest friend, Khan understands Amir better, and he helps ...

Introduction

It is clear that ethics play an important part in any type of decision arrangements. When it comes to Ethics, from a business perspective, having to work up under government agreements can be an extremely lucrative proposal. In overall, a stream of orders keep coming in, income rises and the company grows in the collective. The clear defeats to working in this way is both higher excellence expected in addition to the wide research and documentation requisite for government agreements. In the case study for this project, narrates a situation of moral ethics that involves Darren crucial decision in regards to him ...

The Quileute tribe is one of the smallest tribal groups of the America which is located mainly in the La Push, Washington on the shores of Pacific Ocean. The Quileute tribal settled in United States of America in the year 1855 after executing Quinault agreement. The Quileute tribal are known for their cultural distinctions and lifestyle. The Quileute tribes are mainly dependent on fishing and crafting for their livelihood. If we look at their history, they are very good boat makers. They are able to built variety of boats which could be used for cargo carrying. Over the period ...

Mississauga in Ontario, Canada is a modern city whose slogan proudly declares “Leading today for tomorrow” (Mississauga.ca, 2011) indicating that it is an evolving, metropolis-like city with an enthusiasm for moving with the times. However, Mississauga has an extremely rich history including the Mississauga People who lived in the area between around 1701 and 1800 after many migrated to live on the north shore of Lake Ontario (Oakville). In short, it was not always the ultra-modern metropolis that it is today: two to three hundred years ago, Mississauga was teeming with indigenous people living a simple life. These people were known ...

CBO.GOV

Summary H.R 308 is a bill introduced into the 114th Congress on March 01, 2015 by Congressman Trent Franks. The aim of the bill is to prohibit gambling on property near Glendale, Arizona owned by the Tohono O’odham Nation and held in trust by the United States. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that should the Bill be passed into law, the Tohono O’odham Nation would pursue litigation. Should the federal government have to pay compensation, it might have to pay in excess of $1billion. The CBO has based its estimate of the likely compensation on the fact ...

Immigration and Ethnicity in Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”

Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” is Achebe's response to the limitations and inaccuracy of the Nigerian customs and way of life that comes in many literacy pieces of the colonial era. Achebe does not present a pleasant analysis of the pre-colonial Africa, but in its place, he presents the Igbo society as one that has flaws and virtues. The tile of the novel comes from “The Second Coming” by W. B. Yeats. The issue of immigration and ethnicity comes amidst the arrival of the European colonizers to the country; and shows the impact that the factors have on the Nigerian ...

Genghis Khan - this name is known to everyone. Conqueror of the world, characterized by extreme cruelty, is interesting for many historians. This person has left a trail of blood in history: Genghis Khan conquered vast territories, as well as many nations. The scale of his conquests was enormous. In memory of humanity, they have left the strongest impression. Genghis Khan is definitely different from other great rulers, power-hungry invaders. No one had so unquenchable thirst for cruelty, brutality and destruction of everything that occurred on the way. There may have impact the Middle Ages, however, in this case, ...

An excerpt on the captivation of the Jews by the Babylonians from the Christian Bible relates the fears of the Jews to that of the Red Indians after the extraction of the two races from their homes. Thus begins the author’s tale of the sufferings of the people exiled from their homes and land by a ruthless nation anxious to possess their fruitful farms and acquire their properties. Dubbed the “Trail of Tears”, the article traces the events and in some cases, mentions important people in the Indian tribes’ 800-mile trek to their new homes in the West (190). ...

Personal Essay

My Name is Fulan Alfulani. I was born and raised in Abu Dhabi. Given that education has become an integral factor in achieving success in today’s world, I decided to study abroad after getting my high school Diploma in my country. As a result, my family and I decided that it would be best if I studied in an Anglophone country where I would not only be proficient in speaking and writing in English, but also the fact that the US has high quality schools. Thus, after finishing high school I decided to apply to an American university because ...

Introduction

The Indians and the English colonists had a tumultuous relationship that was plagued with conflict. These conflict arose of many issues including the taking of the Indians land, the destruction of the Indians crop by the Englishmen’s cattle, inequality of the law with regard to the Indians, and more. By the mid-1600s, the Puritans and the Indians existed in close proximity in the colonies. However, the Puritans did not view the Indians as equals. They had a different culture and different practices that the Puritans frowned upon. This led to a lack of respect for the Indians in the minds of ...

Introduction

Films are an effective way in which the history of the people can be presented. While historical events happen spontaneously, the film making process is a carefully planned exercise in which effort is expended by the film makers in portraying their characters in a way that makes the most impact on its viewers. Effective movie making process with an aim at preserving history is possible, therefore, by the inclusion of social ideals in the movie plot whilst they might have been absent in the actual chronology of the historical events. Such moral virtues, such an adherence to personal effort in striving ...

Casino: Wind River Hotel and Casino

Zip Code: 82501 Country: United States Phone: (307) 856-3964 Website: http://www.windrivercasino.com

Toll-Free Number: (866) 657-1604

The casino has 80 rooms with their prices ranging between $109 and $139. There are 10 suites that their prices range between $250 and $300. The casino has two 24 hour restaurants and velvet parking. The games offered at the Wind River Hotel and Casino includes Slots, Video Poker, Blackjack, Poker, and Three Card Poker. The casino covers 8,000 square feet in area. The special features found at the casino include a smoke shop with 80 slot machines, and a gas station. It is approximately the ...

Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Sterling Publishing Co. Inc, New York, 400.p.p Dee Brown, acknowledged for his writings about the west was born in Alberta, LA, in 1908. He loved reading from childhood just like his mother who brought him up after the demise of His father. He wrote his first story at the age of seventeen and sent it to a magazine. While living in Washington D.C, he met Sherwood Anderson, one of his favorite authors. He published several books such as Wave High the Banner (1942), Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee(1970),Fighting ...

Introduction

In Chapter Five of our class text reading, we have looked at the issue of health among the indigenous people of the world. For example, we have learnt about some of major illnesses that plague the indigenous people along with health trends. This prompted me to look farther into this issue and when I visited one of the local websites known as indiacountrytodaymedianetwork.com, which is actually a website that tackles matters related to the Indian group of indigenous people, popularly known as Native Americans, there was one particulate article that caught my eye. The article read “Rise in HIV ...

Abstract

Kuwait is a Middle East Country that was started in the eighteenth century by the Banj tribe members. It was known as Guraine, but was later changed to Kuwait by the tribe of Utbah. Kuwait was in war with Iraq when the US developed interest in the country. This research paper will endeavor in describing the history of Kuwait and how the US came to offer assistance. It will also strive to uncover the history of Kuwait-American Foundation (KAF) and show their relationship today. Kuwait was established in the early eighteenth century by the tribe of Banj Utbah tribe ...

Introduction

The Pawnee Indians is a group of people belonging to the Caddoan family. Before coming into contact with the Europeans, these people are said to have resided in what is currently Texas. However, when the Spanish came to North America, the Pawnees had settled in what is now Nebraska, in Platte River. Contrary to other Indians who lived in Plains, who were wanderers, the Pawnees Indians lived in fixed villages. These people did not engage in fighting with the United States army in the course of the 19th century invasion of the Great Plains but rather, they worked together with ...

This essay will be an article review of Benjamin Madley’s “California’s Yuki Indians: Defining Genocide in Native American History.” Benjamin Madley is an Assistant Professor of History at UCLA and specializes in Native American’s, the American West, and Genocide in World History. This article, from the first sentence to the last, is quite absorbing and readable.

1) The author’s main purpose in writing this essay is to attempt to define whether or not the killing of California’s Yuki Indian Tribe constitutes genocide. His guideline, or “rubric,” for judgment comes from the 1948 United Nations ...

The novel Things Fall Apart by famous modern Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe is a consisted and grounded investigation of a tribal culture. It provides a great insight into the life and traditions of Umuofia clan, the one of the lower Nigerian tribe. The life within the village of main character Okonkwo is peaceful and harmonic. The author shows that the society is actually non-violent it its nature, as it commonly interpreted in the Western literature. The protagonist of the book is a great warrior, a respected man and a wealthy farmer at one time. He cannot be called primitive in any way because everything he ...

Survivor is a game played with the aim of winning one million U.S. dollars. The game entails vigorous and severe challenges among the players competing either as a team or as individual. In this case, is a summary and analysis of human behavior in Survivor season 29 episodes 06 and 07 where players react differently due to group or individual decision that affects them. There are thirteen players, divided into two tribes, Coyopa and Hunaphu and Jeff is the coordinator of both tribes. The former tribe has six players namely, Dale, Missy, Baylor, Jaclyn, Jon, and Keith. The later tribe has seven ...

The novel Waterlily was written by Ella Cara Deloria in 1940s but the writer insisted that the book must be published after her death. Thus, Waterlily saw the light 1988 when it was first published, eighteen years after the author’s death. The first publication of the book was almost twice shorter than the original novel. This editorial advice given by Ruth Benedict allowed to underline the plot focusing on its most remarkable parts and make the novel more readable. The book concentrates on the life of the Dakota state with exploration of its ethnography and local traditions. The ...

and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker In Marriage is a Private Affair, the story tells of two people who are in love but because of tradition they are being kept apart. Nene and Nnaemeka are madly in love and are planning a wedding. Nene is from the city and Nnaemeka is from the rural area. Both lovers were from a different tribe and the Ibo ancestors have passed on the tradition or their beliefs that there should never be any marriage outside of the Ibo tribe. In Everyday Use by Alice Walker, traditions and culture also are at the forefront of ...

Settling in North America

The colonization of North America by the British Empire following the voyages led by Christopher Columbus during the late 15th century has notable economic and political characteristics. The British Empire saw North America as a resource-rich continent that is highly instrumental in expanding their economic activities. Given the initial failures to establish colonies and the rivalling Dutch, French and Spanish imperial forces in North America, the British Empire turned to joint stock companies for establishing settlements. Key to the operation of joint stock companies is the independent leadership exerted by the Proprietary Governors and the practice of mercantilism. Both the ...

Introduction

Colonialism refers to the practice of domination of one race upon another through conquests. Colonization refers to the European settlers taking lands by force from non-European people. The word colonialism has frequently been associated with the description of European settlement in North America, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Canada and places which were under the subjugation of European settlers. German scholar Jurgen Osterhammel described colonialism as "a relationship of domination between an indigenous majority and a minority of foreign invaders" (Nielsen & Robyn, 2003). Though colonizing states like New Zeland, Australia, Canada and the United States vary in their cultures, economies, histories, legal ...

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to closely scrutinize and understand the anthropology of the Kwakwaka'wakw people. The Kwakwaka'wakw are the native people who inhabit the British Columbia located in the northern island of Vancouver. Approximately 5, 500 left in number, they are a smaller community that has succeeded to endure and hand down their traditions from generations’ in spite of outside elements influencing them. This article discusses the culture of the Kwakwaka'wakw people with focus on definite issues of concern. This article is an introduction to the Kwakwaka'wakw’s tradition and treasures, and unraveling how these are shared ...

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 ...

Of all accomplished novels by H.G Wells, The Time Machine most resists a twenty-first century readers’ effort, to pardon Wells from the accusation of being an imperialist. Indeed, it is clear that imperialism is a vital element in H G Wells novels. Wells imbues his texts with colonial and occupation components that require separation between the future and the present and momentary pleasure, particularly those delights associated with the self-centered British conquerors exemplified by The Time Machine’s, The Time Traveler. Wells’ story from a post-modern eye represents an imperial Britain wallowing with forces of technology that it uses to conquer non-suspecting ...

Book review of ‘Childhood and Society’ by Erik Erikson – Book review, Literary and Psychological Analysis, Reflections on reading the book

[The author’s name]

Abstract

This paper will present you with the book review of ‘Childhood and Society’ by Erik Erikson. The review will focus on the analysis of its context in literary and psychological terms, its contribution to the field of psychology as well as on the reflections deriving from its reading. A short presentation of the book’s structure will be given providing you with a highlight of the basic elements of each chapter. Emphasis will be given on the psychological theory developed in this book on behalf of Erik Erikson, a widely acknowledged psychologist and psychoanalyst who has developed ...

Native Americans from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present

Native Americans from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present The issues that Native Americans have faced since 1865 are largely related to a struggle for survival and relevance in a modern age. Although scholars present considerable differences in estimate of the number of Native Americans present in North America at the time of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in 1492, ranging anywhere from 100 million (Schapp, 2010, p. 367) to 900,000 (Hoxie, 1996, p. 500) people, scholars agree that there was a great decline in Native American population lasting until the 20th century. Factors influencing the decline of the Native population ...

While we do not have written records from the Paleolithic Era, the vast majority of our information has been gleaned from archaeological and ethnographic comparisons to other hunter and gatherer cultures that exist more contemporaneously, to gain a bit of insight as to how these individuals lived. In the Paleolithic era, also known as the "Old Stone Age," which lasted until approximately 12,000 BC, human beings (homo sapiens) were effectively evolved to more or less how we appear now. Our brains were nearly the size of modern humans, and we were used to standing on two feet, which freed ...