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Cross-Cultural Interview Case Study
Cross Cultural Interview
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Angel Jackson is a fifty one year old Native American traditionalist. She was born in Mt. Pleasant Michigan but moved around in her youth and actually raised in Lansing, attended boarding school in South Dakota, and returned to Mt. Pleasant where she currently resides on the reservation.
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There are many differences based on whether or not a Native American chooses to live on the reservation, the biggest being that those that do live on the reservation are close to their tribe and it’s a smaller knit community (personal communication, October 26, 2015). This coincides with previous research which has found that tribal communities maintain strong interpersonal relationships and are clustered together (Allison and Vining, 1999, p.203). Growing up in Lansing there wasn’t a large Native American presence, whereas here on the reservation she is surrounded by her family and tribe.
According to Angel, Native American family roles can be very different from that of mainstream society, although this varies greatly within the tribe and is dependent on religious …show more content…
She has been employed at the gaming commission at the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort for twenty seven years, and has been the chair person for the Pow-Wows in Mt. Pleasant for six. Clearly, she has much community involvement on the reservation in the different ceremonies and gatherings they throw, but the tribe as a whole does a lot for the community off the reservation as well. The Soaring Eagle Casino is the largest employer in Isabella County, and many donations go back into the community. CITTT!#E. Angel also explained that they have a blue jean week, where certain departments pay five dollars a day to wear blue jeans to work and they donate the money to charities of their choice (personal communication, October 26,
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