Indigenous peoples

Native Amazon tribal people want to continue to raise their families and live off of the land. The Amazonians have lived in the rainforests for over twelve thousand years peacefully. While living…

The last month has been busy for in8model circles. I had the opportunity to endure the challenges of long-haul plane flights to be rewarded with people, culture, scenery and different world views. First stop was Bali, where I addressed a chiropractic conference. A stand-out from this convention were two local kids, 12 year old boy and 15 year old sister. Their story that they related to us is as follows: We cast our memory back to 2011 when we first entered some schools in central, hot, dusty…

Introduction When the Canadian settlers headed west, and as they laid claim to many territories, many problems arose. The civil rights of the native peoples were, once again, tested. Their culture, and power was significantly weakened, as the Canadian government created and signed many acts as to oppress them. And while the government acted incompetently in the development and infrastructure of the tribes, something we still see today, it can be argued that their attempts of assimilation of the…

Summary of the Book National Dreams by Francis Daniel Aboriginal people faced a lot of discrimination from the settlers from England who envisioned molding the new Dominion of Canada in the image of the Mother Nation. Slaves, Jews, Asian of any type and blacks did not have the need to apply for any membership. One group that mainly suffered from this ethnocentric view of the nation was the Aboriginals (Francis 70). Recent events have seen an interest in the traditional culture and history of the…

In the research analysis “We are Petroleum”, author Duskin Drum uses practices-as-research performances to view the Gwich’in-Caribou relations in terms of North American-Petroleum relations. The Gwich’in are an indigenous people home to modern day Alaska and Northwestern Canada who are heavily integrated with the Porcupine Caribou herd. The Gwich’in have been fighting political and legal battles to protect the sacred calving grounds from oil and gas extraction corporations. Drum uses actual…

In the article, “The Benefits of Cultural ‘Sharing’ Are Usually One-Sided," Adrienne Keene (2015) brings up a valid question, “Who has the right to represent an Indigenous community? Outsiders, or the community themselves?” The link to the article is as follows http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/08/04/whose-culture-is-it-anyhow/the-benefits-of-cultural-sharing-are-usually-one-sided. Through out history, there are many examples of cultural appropriation. As well as, examples of the…

participate fully in the dominant society but still maintain their cultural differences. American democracy and its ideals encourage pluralism in that it allows people to express their cultures, beliefs and norms fully without interference as long as they conform with human rights. Assimilating plays a role here in that individual people can express their individual and dynamic cultures while still they follow the dominant culture of the country as a…

These people really on their land to survive and there is plenty of it, but with all the logging companies cut down the trees it's much smaller than the it use to be. The amazon is huge and full of natural resources that companies are willing to kill for. Also…

Basically, do you ever know the ethnics in Borneo? Abraham (1999) states that ‘ethnicity is seen as crucial in understanding the functioning of most contemporary societies including multi-cultural societies in Malaysia. In Sarawak, the Ibans is an indigenous tribe in Borneo which formed a largest ethnic group with about 30 per cent of the total population. Meanwhile in Sabah, Dusun is the most numerous ethnic group with about 32 per cent of the total population. In Sarawak, originally the Ibans…

this article, it can be greatly beneficial to look back to the past to see what has changed as we’ve become increasingly industrialized. In indigenous populations a direct connection with the land was necessary for survival. Activities to sustain the population - such as fishing, hunting, and growing crops - all revolved around nature. With the Inuit people, there was a presence of something called and ecocentric identity. This means “that identity encompasses human, animal, and material”…