Indian Culture Essay

In the chapter, On the Illinois: The Making of Modern Music and Culture in the Oklahoma Ozark Foothills, The Oklahoma Ozark area is a physical and cultural transition zone between the Great Plains and the eastern woodlands. This area has been considered home to many of the Cherokee people since their removal by U.S. soldiers and settlers beginning in the 1820s (pg. 239). The Cherokees has lived in the Oklahoma Ozark area longer than any other ethnic group compared as of currently. The Cherokees…

ultimately led to some form of suffering. The destruction of traditional cultures and the exposure to new technologies and modern culture show us that industry and modern society might bring more economic prosperity, but our happiness and mental health is what is becoming more and more affected and at risk. Some of these include anxiety, other psychological conditions, disconnected relationships, depersonalization. Traditional cultures who had not yet been domesticated lived very different…

clothing, hairstyles, etc, of minority groups are being used by majority groups (white people), where personal gain or profit is involved, then it is negative cultural appropriation. This is because the majority group is taking an aspect of a minority’s culture and making it popular and liked, when the minority group is often shunned for it. However, Sehgal justifies that there are times when not all cultural appropriation is wrong. When a…

force the colonized to adapt to new cultures, which prompts conflict between those who are in revolt and the colonizers while resulting in the outcome of a serious tragedy such as death. In the novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, it may seem as if the focus is on a single main character, but it is on a much wider view, involving the entire tribe at a moment when the colonizers are attempting to alter the original practices created by the Igbo culture. Although, the main character…

has for subject the social and political position of Indigenous women in Canada, their representation through popular culture and their representation through the art of contemporary Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook, her mother Napachie Pootoogook and Mohawk artist Shelley Niro. They are effectively numerous issues surrounding the representation of Indigenous women in popular culture, and one can observe the contrast between the popular representation and the representation made by Indigenous…

products. Due to state security, the imperial government banned enemy’s products. So film was proposed as a means to rally domestic support for the effort of war. Cinema at that time was regarded as the most advanced technological form of commercialized culture. After 1930, in Germany, cinema act as both an agent and an indicator of social change. And thus cinema came to be understood as a force of moral and national…

cultural environment they live in. Although it varies in different cultures, and changes over time as society develops, it is a universal children’s culture through which children make sense of the adult world and develop their social identities. How children play is directly affected by how play is valued socially and culturally (Bragg, Kehily, 61). In the following I am going to explore how children play in different cultures which reflect the values of the adult world they live in. However,…

Cultural appropriation refers to picking and choosing elements of a culture by a member of another culture without permission. Cultural appropriation has been around for years but is becoming more evident to members of minority groups. While not important to some, it is imperative that this growing trend of cultural disrespect end. Ignorant of the history and tradition the cultural appropriation of minority groups leads to misrepresentation and further oppression. In recent years, the group…

better living, fear and challenges that come along with this are beyond imagination. East indians are the second most asian originated population in US, isolation from their own cultural group to settle into a new one is well explained in Anderson’s “Breaking Bread” where Soni Gupta and Najia Pathan recall their childhood memories and relate to cooking then versus now. Cooking is an art of living in east indian families, time and effort that is invested…

After first contact with the Europeans, the diverse cultures of North American Indians began to undergo vast and various forms of change. European colonization and Western contact introduced novel materials, new techniques were developed in order to incorporate them into their material cultures. Thus, designs changed as the techniques and materials changed. However, the change with the largest impact was the change in purpose of art. Before one can understand the changes in Native American Art…