Matriarchal Cultures: The Native American There has long been debate among anthropologists about matriarchal societies. But that is a historical result of last 500 years of European military expansion and extermination of native cultures. There are a few societies whose status as matriarchies is disputed among anthropologists and this is as much a debate about terminology as it is about interpreting how another society defines status and such‚ their self-understanding as opposed to our
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the Sioux in the east (9). There’s an old Cherokee saying that states‚ “When the white man discovered this country‚ Indians were running it. No debt‚ no taxes‚ women did all the work. White man thought he could improve on a system like that” (American Indian Quotes). This was very true. The women were charged with the jobs of making clothes for the family‚ cooking‚ packing and carrying the supplies and tipis during a move‚ and taking care of household chores. However‚ unlike men‚ Kiowa women were
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them. There are 64 reservation in the States‚ also the (BIE) or Bureau of Indian Education are responsible for the school educations for native students. The (AIM /ARM) there are the bullies of the police force who suppresses the native culture. The cultural assimilation of native Amerindian was to assimilate the natives and transform them into Europeans-American culture basically trying to take away their identity‚ and also wanted to control all of their lands and that was called the Amerindian land
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rights ‚ although stated in Americas constitution‚ were not granted to the Native Americans. The Native Americans were made to endure the hardships of being forced out of their land‚ being killed‚ thrown into countless wars‚ and promised lies. The 1830’s and 1890’s proved to be some of the worst times for the Native Americans in U.S. History. In the 1830’s‚ for the most part‚ Native Americans still lived in their native lands. However‚ white men considered them a threat to peace. So‚ in 1838‚
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during the years were Native American’s were removed from their homes and reservations and into boarding schools. Students were forbidden to express their culture‚ language‚ religion‚ and family structure. The federal government sent Native Americans to off reservation boarding schools in 1870s based off the educational programs developed in prisons with the ideal “Kill the Indian in him and save the man” They hoped to remove their culture and replace it with a White American ideal. During this time
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RESOURCE EXTRACTION ON NATIVE AMERICAN LANDS Andrew Kalmey This August 2012 article “Tapping Into the Land‚ and Dividing its People” describes the controversies of whether the Blackfeet tribes should allow oil companies on to their 1.5 million acre reservation on order to drill for oil. This issue causes divide within the peoples on the reservation because of their Blackfeet beliefs of how the land is living and very sacred and whether or not to go against those beliefs in order to gain jobs and
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Ant 190 Midterm February 26‚ 2013 Question #1. Native Americans depend greatly on the environment and their ecological knowledge‚ as the environment around them continues to warm it causes life threatening changes for Native peoples. For starters‚ their food sources are dwindling as a result of melting arctic sea ice‚ causing species like seal and caribou to continue to deplete. The sea ice melting takes lives every year in Native American reservations around Alaska because they’re resorting
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represent a type of clinical doctor who might prescribe one with the necessary drugs to improve or at least slow the effects of an illness. Native American medicine beliefs and practices differ greatly from the culturally defined western model of healing using pharmaceutical‚ surgical‚ and conventional medicine (Goelz). In comparison‚ the Native American interpretation of medicine man‚ or wicasa wakan‚ is much deeper and more complex. For example‚ it covers four specific types of healers. The
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The Ojibwe Native American Tribe used to live on and own the entire Northern third of Wisconsin. However‚ in an 1837 land cession treaty‚ the Ojibwe tribe had all of their land ceded to the state of Wisconsin. For centuries‚ Native Americans have depended on fish as one of their major food staples. As part of the treaty‚ the Ojibwe was granted the right to spearfish whenever and wherever they wanted‚ within the state. In recent decades‚ Anglers have berated Native tribes for their spearfishing rights
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between the early colonists and Native-American Indians through American settlers and Native-Americans changed so drastically due to many tragic factors. Although the biggest factor would have to be that the settlers saw the Native-Americans as savages and felt that they needed to alter their cultural ways to the European ways. The Sand Creek massacre and the Battle of Little Bighorn were two events that greatly affected the relations among the settlers and the Native Americans. These are only some of the
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