Haida

Education through Assimilation After the American Civil War, why did the American government feel the need to place Indian children of the Pacific Northwest in government run schools in order to make these native children fit into the American society? In the essay “Assimilation through Education: Indian Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest” by Carolyn Marr, she described the educational plight of Indian children from the 1880’s to the 1920’s. The United States government felt that…

First world countries are countries that are more industrialized and developed, these are also the countries that sided with the United States after World War II. However third world countries are countries that aren 't yet developed and are very poor. In my essay I will be comparing two countries, one will be a first country and the other a third world country. Japan, a first world country, is actually an island country with the size of 145,936 square miles that is located in East Asia. The…

Years later, he abused his wife and kids, and his wife divorced him, but just when he was at his low, he turned back to his roots through the help of other Native Americans. He confronted his identity as a past. Woodrow is now, “a treasured elder and Haida story keeper, he utilizes his education and his culture to help others transform abuses and anger by exploring their own heritage.” (Transcending”) Accepting his past has allowed Woodrow to overcome his anger and gave him insight into his own…

The first that she brings up is Haida Nation v. Canada (Wilson, 5). She does not go too in depth with this case but rather, uses it to help prove that settlers used forms of violation to gain control over Indigenous people. Wilson’s second and third argument focus on two specific cases…

In “On Emblematic Megaflora” Farmer explains how he notes that people use trees as sources of meaning. The trees represent a connection between natural and urban world, but they also can gain a certain familiarity with the people. He writes that “Old ones can be imagined as guardians or grandparents. It requires little effort to individuate and anthropomorphize single-trunk plants” (535). With regards to anthropomorphism, Lawrence Buell defines it as “the attribution of human feelings or traits…

Essay Answer for Question #1 Archaeologists set out to investigate the secrets of our past by examining the evolution of cultures that increase our knowledge and “understanding of formal and structural change in cultural systems” (Binford 425). To answer these antecedent questions, archaeologists must first sift through and analyze the important artifacts, ecofacts, and features that are found at their archeological sites., and find, categorize, and interpret the materials and findings at…

A gift is viewed as an expression and maintenance of relationships, whereby the objects (gifts) do not hold any monetary value but rather is an expression of sentiment and cultural love. The ideology of the gift in Euro-America according to (Carrier, 1990, p.19-37) is a “reflection of socio-economic situation in which people find themselves in different economic significances of productive and familial relation.” Gifts create and maintain social groups in society, Mauss speaks about the…

but a fictitious, romanticized interpretation; an illusory view of the indigenous. Through Crosby’s anthropology course, Crosby discovered how much more the professor knows about indigenous people, ceremonies, ritual and moral than herself who is of Haida/ Tsimshian decent. The eugenic during the first half of the 21st century ranked races and classes as superior, providing scholarly warrant for the privileged white middle class, not to mention the warrant for abusive control and deadly…

According to the WDC (Whale and Dolphin Conservation) organization, at least 44 orcas have died in SeaWorld. There is at least 40 killer whales that are still in captivity (Killer Whales in Captivity, 1). Within 30 years, there has been 3 deaths at SeaWorld. It was caused by the same killer whale. The killer whale is called Tilikum (10 things you didn’t know about SeaWorld, 1). Tilikum was the start of why the audience started to question what was going on behind the gates. SeaWorld has been…

Angoon On October 26th, 1882 Angoon Alaska was shelled and burned by the US Navy after a dispute and alleged hostage situation. The Shaman of the Tlingit tribe was taken on a whale boat where a harpoon gun exploded, killing the medicine man of the tribe. The tribe mourned for 4 days after they received the news, they did nothing. After the monstrosity, the tribe only asked for 200 blankets and an apology from the US Navy, what they received was $90,000 from Congress. The conflict occurred…