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    Essay On Tlingit Tribe

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    Tlingit Tribe The Tlingit tribe is a Native American tribe that is in a few locations across the world. They are in southeastern Alaska‚ British Columbia‚ and Yukon in Canada. But this is focusing on the tribe in southeastern Alaska. In Alaska they have Native villages. Alaska villages don’t have the same rights as other Indian nations that other US states do. The Tlingits belong to a group called the “Central Council of the Tlingit Indian Tribes of Alaska”.They handle tribal government of the

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    Nanook of the North‚ is considered the first feature-length documentary film‚ but there are many constructed/re-enactments through out it. The movie informed the viewers on how the Eskimos lived during the 1920’s. Robert Flaherty‚ the director‚ followed a family in Northern Canada and documented their daily activities. However many scenes seem to have been retaken in order to get a different shot of the subject. Flaherty could have been unsatisfied with his first shot and so he would have the

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    Netsilik Eskimo Summary

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    Ethnographic Critique of Netsilik Eskimo by Asen Balikci The book did a decent job of explaining the general environment the Netsilik would be in like in the winter they would be typically in a frozen wasteland living igloos or if there was not enough snow they would live in ice houses if there was not enough snow by taking the ice from the sea. During the summer‚ they would live farther south in smaller camps in more temporary tents. The Netsilik’s subsistence was primarily nomadic‚ hunting gathering

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    Cultural Revitalization

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    the required information. CASE STUDY #1 – Nunavut – efforts to revitalize Inuit language and culture http://www.tusaalanga.ca/splash Tusaalanga (Inuit language learning) http://www.pirurvik.ca/en/programs Pirurvik Centre (explore the different programs they have to revitalize Inuit culture) http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/09/02/nunavuts_battle_to_preserve_inuit_languages.html Nunavut’s battle to preserve Inuit languages (Toronto Star article) http://www.kativik.qc.ca/en/inuktitut-computer-games

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    Ke Li 1398422 In Search of Self-Identity for Métis people and Tactical Responses to Oppression of Our Racist Society When we are unable to find the pleasant cool in the summer‚ when we are unable to find the warm sunshine in the winter‚ when we are unable to find the shinning stars in the evesperal sky‚ who are we by then? The Canadian Metis are an Aboriginal group who celebrate their mixed-ancestry and identify with a unique Metis culture (Richardson 56). In the novel of Beatrice Culleton‚ In

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    Franz Boas

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    Arturo Martinez Anthropology 2014 Franz Boas - The Ellis Island Research. Franz Boas is known as the founder of American anthropology and he dedicated his life to anthropology. Boas is recognized for some early work but mainly for the research he conducted in Ellis Island‚ New York. Boas once said “No culture is inferior to another.  No language is inferior to another.  No race is inferior to another.” (1848 – 1942) With the Ellis Island project‚ he found that exactly. Immigrants coming into

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    Indigenous Religions and their Sacred Reverence Toward Nature Kimberly Kitterman Barstow Community College Abstract Many indigenous religions and cultures viewed the earth with great respect and reverence. This can be seen through their kinship with the land‚ their belief in animism‚ their hunter/hunted relationship‚ and their origin stories. Indigenous Religions and their Sacred Reverence Toward Nature Most indigenous cultures had a profound respect for their environment. They believed that

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    How does Kari Herbert convince the readers for the necessity of hunting whales in the arctic region? You should comment on: 1=the geographical and living conditions of the native people. 2=the use of argumentative language. 3=the language If people in the arctic region won’t eat what they have‚ i.e. whales‚ then what will they eat? Should they think of saving the extinct animals or saving their own lives? This is the argument stated by Kari Herbert and she has indeed confused and convinced the

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    Even thought farming is harder than hunting and gathering‚ there are many advantages in farming. Farmers can produce more food then hunters and gatherers can gather. Farming lets people have a steady food supply all year long. Farmers usually have surplus‚ so they can have bigger families then the hunters and gatherers. Farmers don’t have to travel like the hunters and gatherers; they have a settled life‚ they don’t have to travel‚ and they take up less space. Farmers can live almost anyplace where

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    Yasmin L. Sarah 9/16/2013 Period three Compare and Contrast: Pre-sedentary Humans (Hunter-Gatherers) Versus. Village Dwelling Humans If you analyzed the society of pre-sedentary humans to those who lived in villages‚ you’d find several connections that link the two‚ and how they evolved into that of society today. However‚ the lifestyle of humans dwelling in villages or towns developed differently‚ efficiently and contrasted greatly with that of its ancestors; the pre-sedentary humans.

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