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    Betsabe Camarena Professor Ramirez Ethnics 101 April 16‚ 2013 The Lakota way # 2 In this assignment we required to choose four chapters from the book “The Lakota Way” by Joseph M. Marshall III‚ I decided to write my paper based on the chapters about Humility‚ Love‚ Truth and Generosity because these four qualities is what I believe to be important in life. The first chapter I choose to write about is chapter 1‚ humility‚ because it relates so much with my life. One of the Native American code

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    Sacred Places A sacred place can be interpreted as many things that can and cannot be seen or visited. The majority of all mythologies have some sort of sacred place that is associated with it. A sacred place doesn’t have to be a heaven or hell. It can be an altar‚ ruin‚ place of sacrifice‚ ritual spot‚ burial site‚ cultural migration lines‚ pictographs‚ and any other place that could be essential to a culture. (Leonard & McClure‚ 2004‚ "Gulliford ’s Nine Categories of Sacred Places"). One of the

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    The land on which indigenous tribes lived are of great importance to them. At the center of most Native American belief systems is the idea that religion draws heavily upon sacred lands. They have a very reverent attitude towards nature‚ always being respectful of it. This is because their survival was dependent on the land. So rather than changing the environment in which they lived‚ they lived very closely to nature. To them‚ nature is spiritually alive. Everything in the cosmos is interrelated

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    of resiliency has been demonstrated by the Indigenous peoples of Canada since the early days of colonization‚ efforts still remain prevalent in restoring traditional cultural practices. This paper will provide a background behind The Indigenous Expressive Arts and Culture Program‚ a program aimed at teaching elementary school students about Indigenous cultural practices. This background will include specific issues‚ Canada’s history with the Indigenous community‚ a look in to the concept of culture

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    THE SACRED EXCHANGE BETWEEN SAINT FRANCIS AND LADY POVERTY INTRODUCTION The Franciscan Order has been saddled with the controversy on the issue of the observance of poverty. During the lifetime of Saint Francis of Assisi‚ there were already factions in the Order; the faction that were in favour of living the Franciscan charism in a new dimension are called the lenient and the wise‚ and those who are in favour of keeping to the original way of living the Franciscan Charism‚ are often

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    Jean Watson: Caring Science as Sacred Science Biography • Born in West Virginia in the 1940’s • Graduated from the Lewis Gale School of Nursing in Roanoke‚ Virginia in 1961 • BS degree University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964 • MS degree in psychiatric and mental health nursing in 1966 • Ph.D. in educational psychology and counselling in 1973 • Distinguished Professor of Nursing and holds an endowed Chair in Caring Science at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center • Founder

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    Indigenous Prison Population The overall prison population in Australia is similar to other developed countries‚ however the Australian Indigenous prison population is at an unacceptable rate and is continuing to rise (Krieg‚ 2006). The population of Indigenous prisoners in Australia has doubled within a generation (Mc Coy‚ 2008). Indigenous prisoner population in Western Australia‚ as with the rest of Australia‚ is massively over-represented (Justice & Community Safety in Western Australia‚ 2013)

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    Thousands of Indigenous Americans in their homeland vs. one hundred Spaniards in a new area and somehow in less than five minutes the Spaniard’s capture the Indigenous leader. In 1532‚ Spaniard’s came from Europe to Cajamarca to conquer land and spread Christianity. The leader of the Spaniard’s was Francisco Pizarro. The first encounter between Spaniards and the Indigenous Americans was quick. The Spaniard’s captured the leader‚ Atahualpa‚ and held as a prisoner for eight months. For his release

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    Sacred Hearts Students Discover Pearl Harbor By Breana Wallace I‚ along with seven of my schoolmates from Sacred Hearts School grades 7-8 on December 8‚ 2016 got the chance to attend the "Discover Pearl Harbor" program in Oahu‚ Hawaii to learn about the history of the devastating Pearl Harbor attack. The Pacific Aviation Museum staff reached out to our school looking for five students to attend the program. Later‚ the director of the program Shauna Tonkin offered the opportunity to

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    Organisation‚ 2008) states that the indigenous peoples of Australia are one of the most disadvantaged indigenous groups in the developed world. The health of the Indigenous population of Australia is an increasingly pressing issue. Current research and statistics reveals great inequality in many areas of health care and health status between the Aboriginal people and the general population of Australia. Couzos and Murray (2008‚ p. 29) report that the Indigenous population has “the worst health status

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