Mohawk tribe

In source one, the speaker, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, is pointing out that the imperialism enforced on the Aboriginals of Canada in the past still negatively affects the native population in Canada today. As is shown when Smith says, “Imperialism frames the Indigenous experience. It is part of our story, our version of life today,” she portrays that imperialism has long term effects on a society as a whole, not only economically, but emotionally as well. This imperialism that the Europeans enforced…

The following paper will summarize the Oka crisis, and a filmed by Alanis Obomsawin. The paper highlights major events during a standoff between the Mohawks of Kanehsatake and the Quebec Government regarding a land claim. A brief summary of the Oka crisis will be provided followed by a summation of Alanis Obomsawin film Kanehsatake: 270 years of Resistance. During the summation of the film messages, depictions, and observations regarding events and the style in which the film was produced are…

In Allen Greer’s book, Mohawk Saint, he tells the life of Catherine Tekawitha, however, his work is done quite differently compared to the hagiographies that were written by two fellow Jesuits, Claude Chauchetiere and Pierre Cholenec. Greer wants to examine not only the culture and lifestyle of the Iroquois, but also examine those that colonized the Iroquois. As Greer stated, all the information that has been recorded about Catherine has been written and described through the perspective of…

Catholicism employs female imagery, like the Virgin Mary, that Native women could see as symbols of power. Kateri Tekakwitha is an excellent example of how religious and cultural syncretism could serve both Jesuits and Indian purposes. She was an orphan Mohawk, disfigured by the smallpox epidemic that killed her family when she was 4. After her baptism, since “her relatives were displeased to see her devote all her free time to prayer” and especially refusing to marry, Kateri went to Kahnawake.…

with the Oka crisis, a confrontation between Mohawk Indians living in an area near Oka and the Canadian military. The interest of a local land development leads to an approval by government to expand a private 9-hole golf course and build a luxury housing, both to be located on the burial ground and sacred pine grove belonging to the Mohawk nation. These served as an impetus for a 270 year battle to officially regain the territory. A crowd of Mohawk Indians blocked incoming construction…

broke out with the white in the 1830s, after that is when most Indian tribes started taking captives. Like the Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, and Wichita tribes. Captives was mostly fraught and lots of hardships, The captives survival mostly depended on the captor and that could vary from tribe to tribe. Different tribes varied on different ways to treat their captives most tribes treated captives with unexpected respect. Tribes would adopt captives into their family and raise them as one of their…

Israelites scattered over Canaan. Their memory quickly faded of God’s work and the religion of cultures surrounding them started to influence them. Baal worship quickly came into the lives of the Israelites. Once they disobeyed God and married within other tribes, they picked up more from their culture. This happened when they became scattered across Canaan and for those who failed to destroy the idols to false gods. Baal worship included a dark side of worship which was religious prostitution,…

Jonah and Nehemiah are two prophets that can teach us Christians a lot of life lessons and also how to deal with things when adversity strikes. The story of Jonah is one of the more well-known stories throughout the Bible, probably because we can learn so much from it in what is such a little book of God’s Word. It starts out with God telling Jonah to go to Nineveh, a great city that was weak in its beliefs. Jonah, instead of trusting in the Lord, fled to Tarshish. To get to Tarshish, he first…

on story telling for many generation and only recently documented. The Ute Indians have a strong link with the Paiute Indians. This is because, according to the language similarities and its subtle changes, it is assumed that these two tribes were once a single tribe less than 1000 years ago. This left me wondering about the history of the myth. Is the myth less than 1000 years or has it been in existence before the Utes made it into the…

Book Report on A tale of Three Kings A tale of three kings is an in depth story about King David, King Absalom, and King Saul. G. Edwards has mastered the authorship of styles and techniques of leadership. He describes how the process they went through to become king, the brokenness they experienced and the familiar question was raised about what type of king you are or will become. At least once in everyone’s lifespan will experience a form or pain and brokenness. Whether from loss of family…