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    Early Arkansas Tribes

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    Early Arkansas Tribes The Quapaw‚ Caddo and Osage were three tribes that occupied lands in Arkansas when the Europeans arrived in the early 1500’s. All three tribes were very similar and different in other ways. In the end all three tribes today live on different reservations around the country and still struggle to keep their culture‚ history and memories alive. One very common theme among these tribes is their strong sense of spirituality. Although each tribe that slight varations of their

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    Nacirema Tribe Analysis

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    The Nacirema Tribe By Edgar A. Maceo September 2008 The article that I read is called “Body Ritual Among the Nacierma”. The Nacierma is a North American Group living in the territory between the Canadian Cree‚ the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico. My first thought was‚ wow‚ I never heard of this tribe before‚ and they are North American. As I continued to read this article‚ I became more fascinated by it and wondered‚ how come I’ve never heard of this tribe. They appear to be a lot like us or

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    African Tribe Dance

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    Each country in Africa has its own language and customs including the way each of them dances. Every tribe has its own dance and each of them is significant to the people within the tribe. Inside the African community everyone dances. There are distinctive dances for certain associates of the tribe which include dances that are there are dances for women only or men only or the old or the young. These separate dances are closely related with ceremonial means of passage and can sometimes display the

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    Five Civilized Tribes

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    Yapui etc. These are just some amongst many of Native American tribes. But I am going to talk about just five tribes. These five tribes are known as Five “Civilized” Tribes. To be more precise‚ I am talking about five Native American nations: Cherokee‚ Chickasaw‚ Choctaw‚ Creek‚ and Seminole. But why are they called „Civilized“ tribes? Mainly because of the fact that these tribes adopted attributes of the colonists’ culture. The tribes adopted features like Christianity‚ literacy‚ market participation

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    Essay On Sioux Tribe

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    - Then‚ I will introduce todays lesson. Today‚ we are going to focus on the history of the Sioux Tribe. We are going to compare and contrast the Sioux families to the families now. We are going to look at the type of clothing the Sioux tribe wears‚ the food they eat‚ the type of transportation they used and the type of houses and materials they used long ago to build their houses. - I will explain who are the Sioux’s. “The Sioux’s are a group of Native American people’s who speak similar languages

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    Essay On Amazon Tribe

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    How Amazon Tribes survive in their environment Survival in the Jungle Imagine you are being hunted by a jaguar‚ anaconda‚ or crocodile. This is very possible for the people of the Amazon. Making shelters are a must have. With the constant fear of dangers to avoid and edible resources to find‚ living here takes guts. With well made and simple shelters to keep out hazardous weather‚ people‚ and animals; living off of fish and plants is good enough for these hunter gatherers. Shelters of the Natives

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    1) Name of Tribe- The name of my tribe is Apache. 2) Name of Culture Group- the name of the Apache culture group is Native American. 3) Where did they live? (What part of North America)- The Apache tribe originally lived in the Southwest deserts in Arizona‚ New Mexico and Texas. Some Apache people were also located across the border in northern Mexico. 4) What sorts of food did they eat? - The Apache people mostly had a diet that consisted of buffalo‚ deer‚ antelope‚ and small game (the Apache men

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    Essay On Nacirema Tribe

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    After realizing “Nacirema” is American spelled backwards‚ it becomes evident that Miner is criticizing American culture. He describes the “tribes” behavior with a focus on changing personal appearance and magic-based rituals. Everybody goes to the “Latipso” to see “medicine-men” when they are sick and often are given potions or end up dead. This is like a looking glass into American culture. In our culture‚ there is a huge focus on physical features‚ but we don’t pray to fix it. Instead we take vitamins

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    Pawnee Indian Tribe

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    way of life before the arrival of the Europeans. 300 words. The Pawnee Indian tribe lived in central Nebraska and northern Kansas; they were a semi sedentary tribe (only partly move around) they would move to follow the buffalo one half of the year and the other half of the year they would harvest corn and other foods. They were historically one of the largest and most prominent Plains tribes; and they were a tribe of ten thousand or more. There permanent shelters were called earth lodges‚ earth

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    Essay On Cherokee Tribe

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    identified the Cherokee tribe as one of the most cultural and socially advanced of the Native American tribes. Cherokee is a powerful tribe from the Iroquoian family‚ located at the Southeastern side of the United States. Did you know that more than 819‚105 Americans claimed to have Cherokee ancestry in 2010. This tribe is still growing and is really known by the north-americans. Cherokee meaning “people of different speech” is a word derived from creek word. The Cherokee tribe have been consistently

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