Blackfoot

rather than revealing them as “savages”, they are shown as civilized tribes people living accordingly to traditional culture separate from the general population. Jarmusch’s film contains hidden un-translated Native American languages such as Cree, Blackfoot and Makah. Even inside jokes directed at a native American audience. Jarmusch comments of this effect: “I didn't want it subtitled. I wanted it to be a little gift for those people who understand the language. … Makah was incredibly…

Indian Boarding Schools were created by Richard Henry Pratt. His goal was to turn Native Children into white civilized children. He wanted to turn any uncivilized Native Child into living in the “white way”, and “civilized” way. Indian Boarding Schools were all over the country to get rid of Native Culture, And Pratt was known for his Famous Motto ”Kill the Indian, Save the Man”, Meaning to get rid of whatever Indian is left in them, and save them by learning the “white man’s” way to live.…

In Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It, Norman seemingly does his best to help Paul escape a cycle of alcoholism and risky behavior. Norman continues to take Paul fishing in the hopes that Paul will change, yet in his heart, Norman believes “[he] could not help him” (Maclean, 6). This passage calls into question Norman’s method to getting through to Paul. In fear of overstepping his boundaries, Norman is never able to have a meaningful conversation with his brother in order to truly…

1. What emphasis do work, study and family life have in your country or in your culture? Which of the 3 is most important in your country or in your culture? This is a very varied question as I live in a very culturally diverse area. I feel my culture is ever changing and developing as my family grows, taking parts from my families past and adding my personal values to pass along to my children. From my life’s perspective, my culture started developing when I began to mature and create ideas…

observable rather than the unobservable. He studied at the University of Wisconsin and later Columbia University. While at Columbia University he and an anthropologist known as Ruth Benedict who urged him to go do fieldwork interacting with the “Blackfoot Indian Tribe.” This changed his ideas of what psychology could and should do. He began to abandon his ideas of the behavioristic approach and instead focused on how psychology could improve and even fix social and personal issues. Carl Rogers,…

chose to raise market hogs because my first year of it went very well. I had a chance to watch how others show their pigs so I have a better understanding of what is expected of me for this year. On March 18, I went to Our Family Farm in Blackfoot to purchase my pigs. This year was my second time…

1870s other tribes ended up destroyed or beaten into submission: Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, Apache, Chinook, and Shasta to name a few. California Indians fell to disease whites brought in during gold rush era 1849. Majority of Indians, including Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow, Arapaho, Pawnee etc. lived in small groups 3-5 hundred on the Great Plains, depended on buffalo, and later horses too. They were skilled fighters. Lived simple lives minding their own business. In mid 1900s government named…

Jane is what many would consider a good person, this is because she shows very altruistic ideas and actions. She was very progressive for the age that she was in. This is because she cared a lot for the little guy getting stomped on by huge corporations even though it was none of her concern considering her own economic setting in the society. She also cared about people that most people didn’t care about, immigrants. People that many viewed as ruining the society that was America back then.…

In “Listening with Imagination: Is Music Representational?” Kendall Walton asks the question: “If music can be nudged so easily into obvious representationality, can we be confident that without the nudge it is not representational at all?”1 The answer that Walton gives, and one that parallels the question of the combination of music and video, is that music is expressive. The expressiveness of music makes it susceptible to “...being made explicitly representational.”2 Although Walton does…

History Script: Since the early 17th century until the early 1900s, Aboriginal Peoples have signed treaties with the British and French, which the two countries then, turned into Canadians later on, after Confederation. Although, in the beginning, when the British first started to sign treaties with the Aboriginals, they wanted to encourage peace, yet, later on, the British and French looked at the treaties from a different perspective, then the Aboriginals and each country had different goals…