Rationale for a National Monument in the Bears Ears Area I. Introduction The proposed size of the Bears Ears National Monument is approximately 1.9 million acres, which is roughly twenty percent larger than the state of Delaware. The alternative Public Lands Initiative (PLI) suggested by Representatives J. Chaffetz and R. Bishop encompasses 4.6 million acres within the Bears Ears area (Bears Ears Coalition) (Chaffetz and Bishop). The difference between the two proposals is the difference of…
residing in compact permanent settlements referred as pueblos. In the modern world, the group lives in northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona. The Pueblo incorporates four distinct language groups including the Zuni, Keresan, Tanoan, and Hopi. The culture associated with early Pueblo Indians is estimated to have begun in AD100. At first, Pueblo Indians combined gathering wild plants, hunting, and corn cultivation. They lived in shallow pit houses, which were earth and poles structures…
while still containing consciousness. Those taking it were seeking help from a spirit guardian • Spirits can contact the human world. Some native American traditions included a spirits taking control of a human conscious. Kachinas • Tribes such as Hopi, kachinas are those spirits of the dead and animals, plants, natural forces, minerals, stars. • Kachinas had powers that were beyond human belief. There are know to…
She wished they had followed their hunger to a gloriously warm place like Arizona. If they had, she thought, I would be half Apache right or, or Hopi, and Navajo, sitting next to the sun, watching lizards bac on desert rocks.Rachel Vail and Roland Smith are both great authors. Roland Smith has written a book named, “Ovatniah” which is about a girl named Marie who s going on a trip with her mother to see her grandmother, Aanaq Wasuli for the summer. Her grandmother is also looking for ivory,…
Arizona is a state in the United States and is located in the southwestern part of the country. The state is to the west of Colorado, just north of Mexico, west of New Mexico and east of California. The absolute location is the precise location of an area, and for Arizona that is 34.00 degrees north, 112.00 degrees west. I’m new to Arizona. I moved here in May of 2014, and I don’t know much of anything about the state so I’m interested to learn more about my new home. Arizona has a few different…
Tristan Sigurdsson LA 6 | Period 6-7 | Is The Japanese Creation Myth Relevant? Some people believe that ancient myths do not affect the modern world, but others may think that they do affect the modern world. The Japanese creation myth or Tenchikaibyaku is the story of how the world might have been created. The story starts as the earth being a muddy sea, then a god appears and makes more gods because this one god is alone, and the other gods then turn into different things like the sun,…
and sense of insecurity among the Native American communities around the country. The sense of insecurity is evident throughout the different class materials of this class. Last week, in the documentary "In the Light of Reverence" we have seen, a Hopi leader was saying they are not supposed to tell everything about themselves to the outside world. We have seen their sacred shrines and the places where their ancestors came through and left messages for them to follow are destroyed. We also have…
with counterculture interest, "...the hippies were not a culture; [they] were full of ideas and often half-baked sentiments and work ethics that left the natives uninterested in them in the long term." Smith, to illustrate the point, examined the "Hopi-Hippie…
HOPI This is a 45-year-old male with PMH of GERD and hernia repaired, who presented with ABD pain that started 5 hours ago. He had a large burger and fries last night and was not able to sleep d/t ABD pain. The pain is located in the RUQ and right shoulder or scapula. He rates the pain as 7/10. He describes the pain as a “constant and severe”, with associated symptoms of nausea, chills, and vomiting. He has vomited twice, which provided him some relief. He thinks the emesis was consist of…
In all three of the ethnographic films we saw were cyclic in the way they presented information. The Hopi video started with the origin story and ended with death, the Nuer video starts during the wet season and goes through the dry season and back to the next wet season, and the Dani video started with their origin story and ended with death. In my ethnographic…