UTILIZING ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN THE PRESERVATION OF INDIGENOUS ETHNOBOTANY AND LANGUAGE INTRODUCTION Problem Statement The Yakamas of the Washington Yakama Indian Reservation are losing significant sources of traditional ethnobotanical knowledge due to the rise of ecological problems, conflicts in resource management, and sociocultural losses among the generations. From these rising problems, traditional knowledge that influence many aspects of the Yakama culture and traditions are at risk of being forgotten. Over generations, Yakama traditional knowledge has been used as an important source of food, to identify materials for making baskets, and how to grow herbs for medicinal treatments. Language has also played an important role in
Northwest Coast Indians, one of the richest Indians, were famous in trading sea otter fur with European in less than two hundreds years ago. They lived nearby the coast and the forest, “the rich land”, where the nature environment provided foods and resources. Even during the winter, they were able to enjoy music, dancing, and drama without worrying about survival. With the abundance material goods, native Indian satisfied with the material possessions, and passionately seek for a higher social status. This derived a special traditional event, potlatch.
“Rifles, Blankets, and Beads” delivers an entertaining perspective on the Northern Athapaskan village of Tanacross. This book is an outstanding resource to anthropologists, students, and educators. In reviewing this book, the author brings a descriptive writing style when analyzing the Northern Athapaskan village of Tanacross culture and history with a focus on the potlatch giving us insight details how the potlatch is seen and celebrated among the Tanacross people. The author, William E. Simeone, is a great source on the Northern Athapaskan village of Tanacross because he lived there among the people. In addition to living there he also attended ceremonies in both Tanacross and surrounding villages, and participated in potlatches within
#1) The world treats Hazumu in a completely different way after he was changed to a she. There are three different social groups mainly involved with Hazumu in this episode, they are: her family, friends, and the media. Starting with Hazumu’s family her mother loves the idea of having a girl. The mother even goes to a point in saying, “I’ve always wanted a girl”.
Jacob Mayfield Pd 4 Honors American Lit Harvard Outline The environmental wisdom and spirituality that the Native Americans possessed is legendary. Animals were respected as equal to humans. Although hunted, but only for food, the hunter had to first ask for the permission of the animal’s spirit. Among the Native Americans the land was owned in common as a whole, no single person or entity owned any land.
Yayoi Kusama’s work has transcended two of the most important art movements of the second half of the 20th century: minimalism and pop art. Plagued by mental illness as a child, and thoroughly abused by a callous mother, the young artist persevered by using her hallucinations and personal obsessions as fodder for prolific artistic output in various disciplines. This has informed a lifelong commitment to creativity at all costs despite the artist’s birth into a traditional female-effacing Japanese culture, and her career’s coming of age in the male dominated New York scene. Her extraordinary career spans paintings, performances, room-size presentation, literary works, outdoor installations, sculpture, fashion, films, design and intervention within existing architectural structures, which allude at once to microscopic to macroscopic universe.
The Ibibio worldview is not only determined by an array of their language, belief, and communication that lengthens “beyond the members of the society at a given point in time but to those who are dead and the unborn generation” (Okon & Ansa, 2012, pt. 3). This concept aligns with Thoreau’s views that, “All the past is here,” (pt. 3) which characterizes the Ibibio people as a close-knit society that is defined by three key factors which bind them together – symbolism, proverbs, and religion to explicate their way of life. For instance, the Ibibio people assigned specific meanings to the Iroko tree, an imagery which is hinged upon the strength of the people as discussed in one of their many proverbs; “Ubok mm, ubok mm etuud ukpa” meaning “In togetherness, any obstacle can be removed” (Okon & Ansa, 2012, pt. 5.1). Working together in love and appreciation of others rather than as individuals they can collectively meet challenges they are faced with. In spite of the weight of the tree, which is synonymous to the enormity of a problem, working together brings resolution that satisfies and promotes the interest of the entire community rather than a few.
By: Isaac g. I am a Native American from the the Desert southwest. I wonder If I danced. I hear drums. I see Fire.
Hopi Cultural Ecology The Hopi tradition of Hopivotskwani is the core of their existence in the past and in the present. This is the “Hopi Path of Life”, and guides all aspects of daily life, not just religious thoughts or ceremonies. It acts to connect the people to nature. Corn is also a vital crop and symbol for the Hopi People.
In the culture reading “Wisdom Sits in Place” Keith Basso discusses his experience while visiting the Apache Cibecue Community in Arizona. Basso’s reason to visiting the Cibecue community was to record locations around Cibecue that held an Apache name. Throughout his journey of recording, he is told stories of locations and it history from an Cibecue resident, Charles Henry. Although Basso was at the Cibecue community to create a map of locations, he was taught aspects of language used by the apaches.
The Yakuza is a very infamous organization within Japan. The members can be easily spotted by their tattoos covering almost all of their bodies. Another very obvious stand out is not having all 10 of their fingers, normally a form of discipline. (about.com,asian history Szczepanski). The Yakuza was first born long ago around 1600 and there were two separate groups.
Language is an important factor in everyday life. For people who are not English-proficient, this statement is self-evident. When an individual does not understand the language of their environment it is often difficult to keep up with everyone else. People who cannot read, speak or understand the language of their peers face trouble because of their language barrier. Limited communication is a tolling setback in a world where everyday life is shaped by language, where words have an impact.
Often when one is prompted to think of an empire, the Roman Empire comes to mind. The Romans started from a small piece of land along the Tiber River in central Italy, and within a millenia amassed an unprecedented territory comprising of parts of all 3 known continents of the ‘old world’ and dozens of countries, peoples, cultures, and languages. This massive empire certainly had a large impact on its peoples during its power; however, even today one may find the massive impact of the Roman empire in various languages, governments, and religions all over the globe. Language is one of the most important aspects of a culture. Language dictates how and what people literally and figuratively speak to one another.
They argue that language originates and has its primary references to everyday life. Language forces social interactions into patters and integrated them into a meaningful reality, which includes spatial, temporal and social
Languages influencing cultures Languages influence cultures in different ways such as the distinctiveness of a society, how cultures can perceive things differently, and beliefs that cause a society to behave in
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