The Western Apache tribe from, central Arizona area of the Fort Apache Indian Reservations as it is known today, through Basso’s studies seemed like a reserve and caring group. Deshchíí' Bikǫ is an Apache place name that mean red-banded canyon, this is the area in which they that is considered a big part of Arizona today. Their language known as Cibecue was derived from a Spanish dialect which was Basso’s focus. With the use of ethnographic techniques and linguistic anthropology he grasp the inside observation of their cultural standards, language and landscape itself to understand reason, values, acknowledgement, meaning and perspective towards their place and sacred space. They went out of their way to understand …show more content…
In their eyes, there was not enough room for failure as they prayed strong. The tribe pitched in as one would say as a team, to make culture work for them and adopted what made a difference and helped them to survive. If these certain areas in which they lived, gave them a sense of security and hope it was given a place name, with a meaning to carry on for decades. The Western Apache believe there is a reason for everything that is done, it’s important that respect is presented at all …show more content…
We pray but do we pray daily as they do, do we do things to prevent or just wait until things happen before we think about making a change. We don’t think totally in that same sense of mind and we don’t value the true meaning of life and all it as to offer as we should. Everything with Americans is to a certain and extent, we don’t always value the morals we were brought up on. Take the bad habits of some people, greed, cheat, steal some of the main factors that parents today try to teach their children not to do, be instead of finding the value of what was taught, taking in consideration the consequences of our behavior and listen to elders or mentors of right versus wrong, we decide we are going to test the water and if it does not pan out when caught in the action. Then we want to change course and give our life to God. I just don’t understand that thought pattern, as some of us take the words of wisdom and shade it. We have this preconceived notion of that what I have is mine, but you need to find yours. What I worked so hard to have, you need to work to get your own. The Statue of Liberty was built to allow us to endure and acknowledge the freedom and friendship with