Nacirema‚ American spelled backward‚ is a satire paper attempting to force Americans to evaluate their culture and look at it in a different way. By using words that are obscure‚ atypical and abnormal to describe very common American practices‚ the paper offers a strange way of defining our culture. One instance in the paper was how Americans hold importance in oral hygiene and use tooth brushes and tooth paste to brush our teeth daily. The author describes this as a “mouth-rite” and a “revolting”
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as a part of the tribe. This source also seemed to recognize no positive aspects from the introduction of the horse‚ so the negative implications are heightened. With the introduction of the horse‚ these tribes were unsure whether this new addition was going to be a helping aspect or food for the men and women. Because of not having an animal to assist with everyday tasks in the past‚ the knowledge for the care and well-being of these animals was unclear and forced the Indian tribes to create their
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the Basseri. Iranian Basseri’s are a “pastoralist tribe that practice under a chiefdom under leaders known as Khans of various villages” (Nowak & Laird‚ 2010). Basseri people have the means to self-govern and reside in small settlements while raising their families and animals on the open ranges of Iran. Basseri pastoralists have a culture that is deeply rooted in a chiefdom that roams the region in small bands of tent villages. The tribe is pastoral since they don’t raise their own crops
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1. Location Lummi Indians were the first settlers on San Juan Island‚ with encampments along the north end of the island. North-end beaches were especially busy during the annual salmon migration‚ when hundreds of tribal members would gather along the shoreline to fish‚ cook‚ and exchange news. The reservation is a five mile long peninsula which forms Lummi Bay on the west‚ Bellingham Bay on the east‚ with a smaller peninsula of Sandy Point‚ Portage Island and the associated tidelands. 2. Treaty:
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The Enga Horticulturalist Tribe of Papau New Guinea Hypothesis: The Enga culture was unique to the Enga society; it was their acceptable traditional way of life that worked for them for many generations. Introduction The Enga Tribes were from the hilly highland terrain of Papau New Guinea. All Enga were horticulturalists‚ in other words farmers working small fields in which the planted and gave special individual attention to large mounds of tubers (taros and sweet potatoes) that constituted
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OWN NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE a) My tribe is: Kersee = land seekers b) Flag Meaning ‘‘Kerseene’’ chief god‚ the god of heaven “Wanganash” god of the War “Matanga”god of life “Teriyaki” god of the Water “Chiwata” god of agriculture “Lachineit” god of night c) Leader of the tribe is Kerwamatechila = Son of the gods that they believe d) Social Structure e) Political structure
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The Ashanti African Tribe Prologue We live in a modern day world of technology. However‚ what do we know about the past. There were many things that happened back then and that’s why people were separated into tribes‚ like the Ashanti tribe. The Ashanti tribe lived in central Ghana in the rain forests of west Africa‚ 150 miles away from the coast. They were best known for their craft work especially their hand crafted stools and fertility dolls. An Ashanti fertility doll‚ Akua ba was mostly
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the 12 tribes of Israel begin to emerge and take shape. God was moving in stages‚ and one must keep in mind the formation of these tribes took place over the course of hundreds of years. Modern day scholarship dismisses the notion that the 12 tribes of Israel are divisions of a larger group‚ the nation of Israel. They also deny the Biblical account of these tribes all developing naturally‚ over an extended period of time‚ from the patriarchal origins. Many scholars feel the 12 tribes of Israel
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the Iroquois in the Eastern Woodlands‚ the Cheyenne in the Great Plains‚ and the Inuit from the Arctic/Sub-Arctic. First‚ the Eastern Woodlands has rich dirt which makes it perfect for farming‚ and the Iroquois tribe were the best farmers there were in the Eastern Woodlands. The Iroquois tribe figured out that the three sisters (Corn‚ Squash‚ and beans) were the best crops to grow because they benefited off of each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to grow which eliminates the need
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The Apache tribe lived in the American southwest desert regions‚ which included Arizona‚ New Mexico‚ and Texas. Living on the plateaus‚ the food was alright even though they lived in desert type climates. There was little rain and cacti that covered the rocky‚ dry terrain. The hunting wasn’t always great. Rabbits and smaller mammals were hunted‚ but didn’t feed mouths well. 1601 was when the Apache first were spotted and given that name. On the southern plains they were given the name querecho. But
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