Indigenous peoples

identified several broad categories of mediating factors that ACT ON and INTERACT WITH wellness. These factors can be viewed as processes that mediate the ability of an individual or community to attain or regain wellness. They affect not only how many people in a community are experiencing wellness, but also to what extent health, quality of life and wellness are positively influencing their lives. Furthermore, measurement and analysis of these factors may help health service providers in…

the end, or they would throw stones at their prey in hopes of killing it. Their clothing was what they could make out of the resources that they had, if any. Their beds were the unforgiving jungle floor. Many of the tribes had never seen any other people outside of the area that they live and hunt in, and without a doubt have never seen a man with white skin before. Living in total isolation for decades, a life revolving around survival, and fear of the unknown outside world, the lost tribes…

Noble eco-savage: indigenous people naturally good at being conservationists. The term is an addition to “noble savage” which is the concept of indigenous, or the “other”, who has not been corrupted by civilization. Both terms can symbolize humanity’s innate goodness. The terms can also romanticize native cultures and portray civilized cultures as the big bad. Perhaps the best film example of the noble eco-savage is Avatar. The native people on Pandora are named the Na’vi and have a distinct…

A plethora of people argue that artists should have whatever creative freedom they desire, while others argue that there should be limits and they should be respectful, but where are the boundaries to be drawn and who is responsible for deeming it appropriate or not? The data from this chapter is taken mostly from case studies about musical rights from Canadian First Nations. Some state that when people appropriate music, they often are not trying to profit…

sovereignty over territories, the British Crown infringed on the land rights of Aboriginal people. The Europeans took complete control over the land by depriving Aboriginal people’s right to self-determination and land. The Canadian government has recently come to recognize past injustices and abuses against Aboriginal people. However, there is still a long way to go in reconciling with Aboriginal people. This is evident in the recent the Grassy Narrows First Nation v. Ontario [2014] 2 S.C.R…

While the idea that the arrival of Europeans to “The New World” brought upon the indigenous cultures of America no small amount of strife and misery, as well as fame and fortune upon the Spanish is widely accepted as fact, there is limitless dissention among historians about the true history of the conquest of “New Spain”. One event that exemplifies this dissention is that of the Siege of Tenochtitlan. In the following analysis I will describe and discuss two conflicting accounts that document…

As the aforesaid, the current development approach failed to solve human suffering or poverty, as well as fulfill commitment of improving people life (Eversole, Mcneish, & Cimadamore, 2005), and indigenous knowledge-based development approach seems to provide more fruitful in a sustainable ways. Sustainable development in Buddhist perspective in P. A. Payutto point of views is a “sustainable development must emphasize on human development as core” that consists of three aspects, such as…

Since the beginning of the week, when I read the syllabus for this class, I have been circling the questions posed. I have thought about these questions before yet never truly came up with a solution that satisfied me. Then tonight my son walked up with his stuffed dog in tears that he neglected Nashoba. If you are not familiar with the name, it is the word wolf in Choctaw. I found it ironic that here I am trying to write about what to call a collection of many different, for lack of different…

peripheries are likely to be "hotbeds" of social and cultural change. For example, there is an argument that the expansion of capitalism has increased social and cultural diversity in peripheral regions because of the unique and creative responses of indigenous peoples to their economic and political condition. If one follows evolutionary principles that the intensity of selection increases with variability, such conditions also imply a jump in the rate of social and cultural evolution. The…

These areas consisted of many indigenous peoples that were initially looked down upon as being inferior. Within imperialism, English and French became dominant languages, as people from Britain and France exerted control of areas in the world. The negligence of the indigenous people, also led to the negligence of their languages. According to Salikoko S. Mufwene, a professor from the University of Chicago…