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    more than animals. He speaks about how a totem is considered sacred in the totem clan and slowly describes the processes of the totem clans. These descriptions have many elements of Christianity and Judaism; showing his wish for the non-existence of God with little respect to the lack of understanding to these religions. This goes into the presumed theory of Freud that the idea of God is just our own personal totem pole. The concept of God being our totem which has the qualities we admire in ourselves

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    forests. During the year it is cold and rainy. Their natural resources are mountains‚ rivers‚ greens‚ berries‚ and wood “Tlingit Tribe”. II. Culture a. The Tlingit’s would carve big pieces of wood and make faces of animals on them. These are totem poles. The Tlingit’s believed they would protect their people and families. They would also use a weaving technique called the Chilkat weaving technique. They would use it to weave things like blankets and clothes using mountain-sheep wool and mountain

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    EXPLAIN THE INEXTRICABLE CONNECTION OF THE DREAMING‚ THE LAND AND IDENTITY‚ TALKING INTO ACCOUNT THE DIVERSITY OF THE DREAMING FOR ABRIGINAL PEOPLES. The Aboriginal people’s inextricable connection to the Land and the natural world provides a link between the people and the Dreaming. This untieable connection dictates their way of life‚ their Laws‚ their beliefs‚ their values and the way in which they treat others individually. This connection has lived and grown within every Aboriginal of different

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    DIALECTICAL JOURNAL – The Book Thief A dialectical journal is a type of multi-column‚ conversational note-taking. It will help you develop critical reading and reflective questioning. In your journal‚ have a conversation with the text and with yourself – The Book Thief is the perfect book for this type of conversation.   Write down your thoughts‚ questions‚ insights‚ and ideas while you read. The most important part is that‚ while reading‚ you are responding to the text with what’s on

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    shows that they had respect to their superior which proves they had culture. The Sun Dance is when one is dancing around a tree or pole. This creates a link between heaven and earth (Quinlan‚ p.39‚ 2001). Again‚ this shows that they have been trying to connect to the supernatural which proves they were civilized people.

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    George Orwell wrote the famous novel Animal Farm. The novel is about a group of animals revolting against humans‚ towards the middle of the book pigs take over. There are two leaders in the novel‚ Napoleon and Snowball whom are pigs. They establish seven condiments that they would go by‚ to keep each other civilized. The Nobel Prize winner‚ William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies. The famous novel is about a group of boys stranded on an island‚ striving to build civilization. The characters in the

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    The Chinook Native Americans gathered food and made their weapons all while utilizing every part of the animal or material at hand. Likewise‚ the Chinook showed a respect to the land that is rarely shown today. Incredibly‚ these people thrived with only stone tools and natural materials fashioned to fit their needs. Food wise‚ the most common food item the Chinook peoples ate was salmon. This protein’s importance was seen in the first salmon ceremony. Here‚ the bones from the season’s first salmon

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    The Tlingit: Alaska Indians By: Holli Kearns The Tlingit are an American Indian people whose land consists of the southeastern coast and Islands of Alaska‚ known as the “panhandle.” The official origin of the Tlingit people is unknown. One hypothesis is that the people came from the coast of Asia and Japan‚ migrating north and east‚ and settled in the southeast many years ago. Art forms and some physical features of the Tlingit people are similar to some Pacific groups. Tlingit legends

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    Van Gennep’s "Rites of Passage"‚ Durkheim and Turner’s Theory of Communitas I. Classify using Van Gennep’s categories and point out aspects which would be of particular interest to Turner and to Chapple and Coons. The Mescalero girls’ puberty ceremony is an example of a "Rite of Passage‚" a ceremony that marks the transition of an individual from one stage of life to another (Chapple and Coons‚ p. 484). The ceremony marks the transition from girl to "mother of a nation" (p.252). The ritual

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    can be found in three different countries. The Sioux live in Alberta‚Saskatchewan‚ and Manitoba. The Inuit‚Haida‚ and The Sioux all live in wooden houses. The Inuit live in tents. The Haida live in longhouses. The Sioux live tipis which have wooden poles inside. These three

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