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    Tribe Essay The Ojibway Tribe The Ojibway tribe is one of most well known Native American tribes. It is known as a variation of names‚ each variation more commonly used depending on the location of the Ojibway ’s. Chippewa is a variation of the tribe name most often used is the United States‚ whereas Ojibway is more common in Canada. They reason they are so widely know is due to the fact that they were the third largest American Indian group in the U.S.‚ with a estimated population of 104

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    Museums as rituals Scott Cunningham‚ a writer‚ once said‚ “Rituals developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world” (Ascension Gateway). This thought provoking quote could be used to spark the thinking of how rituals are practiced in our daily secular lives. Carol Duncan does a great job with showing how rituals are practiced in our secular lives; she uses museums to emphasize this point. Carol Duncan’s Civilizing Rituals: Inside

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    Indigenous peoples of America‚ including the Sioux tribe‚ have suffered continuously because of the settlers and eventually their government. The Sioux tribe is recently taking a stand by protesting the plan for the construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota that could seriously jeopardize the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. This pipeline also would cross through sacred ancestral lands of the Sioux tribe. Leaders of the Sioux tribe explain that they did not properly communicate

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    Myths are sacred to all Native American Tribes‚ and the two popular myths for the Cherokee Indian tribe is The Creation Myth‚ which explains how the world was made‚ and the other myth is The First Fire which is about how the fire was discovered. The Cherokees are a very large and powerful American Indian tribe and has a lot of history background and interesting facts. They use their cultural myths in their day to day lives in many different ways. The creation myth is used more

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    The Mohawk Nation is a Native American tribe of the New York area. They were a sedentary tribe who practiced agriculture in the harsh northeast climate. The primary crops were corn‚ squash‚ and beans. The Mohawk were skilled trappers who took advantage of this skill when the Europeans arrived in their area. The tribes worked with other tribes to achieve better relations with other Native Americans and Europeans. This included a constitution and treaties with Americans and Canadians. The modern day

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    Ancient Ritual Research Paper Ancient rituals have been around since prehistoric time. They have been a very important part of human life and were performed with the intention of improving the universe itself. Rituals are also a form of social bonding that contains spiritual meanings. Cultures have different rituals to celebrate important events. These rituals may be different in the sense that the rituals are performed differently but they both share the same idea which is to celebrate and become

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    What is a cultural ritual that conveys something about the culture? The culture of the United States of America is essentially Western‚ yet is affected by African‚ Native American‚ Asian‚ Polynesian‚ and Latin American societies. A strand of what might be portrayed as American society began its development once again 10‚000 years back with the movement of Paleo-Indians from Asia‚ Oceania‚ and Europe‚ into the district that is today the mainland United States. The United States of America has its

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    Professor Mark Fink English 1020 September 8‚ 2009 I. The poem that I chose to write about for my assignment is “Lisa’s Ritual‚ Age 10" by Grace Carolyn Bridges. The reason I chose this poem is because as soon as I read it‚ I immediately felt drawn to this poem‚ something that seems important when connecting with a piece of work. The poem appears to focus on a young girl named Lisa‚ and her experience with incest between herself & her father. It touches not only on that experience‚ but

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    A long time ago human being lived high up in what is now called heaven. They had a great and illustrious chief. It so happened that this chief’s daughter was taken very ill with a strange affliction. All the people were very anxious as to the outcome of her illness. Every known remedy was tried in an attempt to cure her‚ but none had any effect. Near the lodge of this chief stood a great tree‚ which every year bore corn used for food. One of the friends of the chief had a dream in which he

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    1 The Removal of the Cherokee Tribe Since the early 1700’s‚ land between the Native Americans and the European settlers have been full of constant battles. Population of the Europeans increases as more settlers expand on the economy‚ making less room for the land to settle on. During the westward expansion‚ the Cherokees biggest threat comes from Georgia and their persuasion against congress and the desire to run off the Cherokee. Cherokees have been on the American land possible forever and

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