Description After looking at multiple tribes/groups‚ there was one that seemed to interest me the most above all others. That group is the Guarani Indians. The Guarani Indians seemed to interest me the most because they settled in South America‚ and mainly Brazil‚ which is a place that I have always wanted to visit. The Guarani were one of the first peoples contacted after Europeans arrived in South America around 500 years ago. In Brazil‚ there are today around 46‚000 Guarani living in seven states
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extraordinary group of people called‚ The Gebusi. In the 1980’s‚ The Gebusi tribe was anything but modern and acculturated. The Gebusi had their own individual and unique rituals and traditions that they practiced and followed. The Gebusi tribe participated in ritual homosexuality‚ sorcery and/or witchcraft was highly regarded and practiced‚ and they participated in preferential sister-exchange marriages. By 1998-99‚ The Gebusi tribe had established a new way of life. The Gebusi had become acclimated
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After receiving the news from Governor Isaac I. Stevens that the President has ordered him to buy Indian lands and create reservations‚ Chief Seattle‚ the leader of the Suquamish Tribe responds by writing an oration. Seattle’s purpose for the oration was to warn the government of the consequences of the disrespecting their lives and lifestyles. In this speech‚ Seattle uses a lot of comparisons. In many sections of his oration he uses similes‚ phrases that use the words like or as to describe someone
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Reaction Paper on the "Krippendorf’s Tribe" 1. Approaches and Methods The quest of the Krippendorf’s family for a lost tribe in New Guinea demonstrates the participant observation method of research as James together with his wife Jennifer and their three children‚ tried living with the observed people‚ learning how they see things and experience things. Unfortunately‚ the family’s search fails despite their best efforts. After Jennifer’s death‚ James as a single father has been living off
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Over 50 years ago‚ Horace Miner published a study on the Nacirema Tribe. In the study he talked about their body rituals‚ and revealed to the world every strange ritual these people had. After reading this study‚ I decided to do one for myself. So I visited the Nacirema tribe. The things I observed still puzzles me. I noticed that everyday around the same time at daybreak‚ young Naciremas are awaken by an unusual noise coming from some sort of object. I have never in my life heard such an agitating
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The Choctaw Tribe The Choctaw Indians were an important tribe‚ and the largest of the Muskogean tribes. The Choctaws have two stories about their origins in their traditional homeland in central Mississippi. One is that their ancestors came from west of the Mississippi River and settled in what is now the homeland. The other is that the tribe is descended from ancestors who were formed by a spirit from the damp earth of Nanih Waiyah‚ a large mound in northeastern Mississippi. Either way‚ the Choctaws
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Algonquin lived in villages of small round buildings called wigwams. With tribes originally numbering in the hundreds The Algonquin were semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers‚ collecting food primarily from fishing and hunting. The Algonquin were first encountered by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1603. "Algonquin" was the French name for the tribe. The French were probably trying to pronounce elehgumoqik‚ the Maliseet word for "our allies‚" or Algoomaking‚ a Mi’kmaq place name. The Algonquins
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The Abenaki Tribe Many Native Americans Died in new england of a European diseases from 1500’s to 1600’s. After each hardship occurred several neighboring tribes decided to merge together‚ making their identities very indistinct‚ even within the indian oral history. However the Abenaki tribe‚ to avoid the reoccurring hardship moved to Canada‚ which in fact gave them their name the " Canadian Indians" but they are originally natives to New England. Although the Abenaki strategies to survival
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While in the process of doing a replication study of the Nacireman people‚ Anthropologist Lisa Hines stumbled upon an intriguing subculture within the tribe. The following are her observations; It seems that the people of Nacirema‚ in addition to their personal shrines in the home‚ have many other shrines they visit for different rituals and purposes. Besides the Holy-mouth-man and the Medicine man‚ there seems to be other subcultures of these two specialists. Naciremans also frequently gather
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My tribe is interesting in that they treated war differently than European countries did. The Crow Tribe along with other Plains Tribes (category of tribes that mine is in) didn’t fight necessarily over territory but more for reputation and courage. The Plains Indians also rarely fought to the death or destroyed each other’s villages. Instead‚ their war customs were mostly just injuring their opponent in battle but without harming him‚ stealing an enemy’s weapon or horse‚ or forcing the other tribe’s
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