Plain

Other skills attributed to berdaches included the ability to foretell the future and convey luck by bestowing obscene nicknames (Lakota), make love magic (Pawnee), and arrange marriages (Cheyenne). By reputation, many Plains berdaches were sexually active. George Catlin illustrated a Sauk and Fox dance in which a berdache is the central figure surrounded by "her" male lovers. Dakota warriors sometimes visited berdaches before joining war parties in the belief that such…

of nature, hardly affected by the booming forces of erosion. These are colossal proofs of the Western’s Cordillera’s status as the youngest region in Canada. Interior plains After a long and dangerous path down one of the largest mountains in the Western Cordillera, I have encountered my second Canadian landform, the Interior plains. All around me can I see permafrost and pingos,…

The environment has a large impact on the actions of humans. People adapt to their enviroment in order to survive and to make living more enjoyable. The climate of the western United States greatly influenced the culture and lifestyle of the native americans. When the Europeans invaded North America, the environment shaped the relationship between the natives and the Europeans. Historically the relationship between the natives and the European settlers is characterized by the anamosity between…

issue was never presented to the trial court. Caldwell acknowledges that the issue as to whether the evidence is sufficient to sustain his conviction was not raised before the trial court. Nevertheless, Caldwell asserts that we should engage in plain error review and reverse the conviction. Alternatively, Caldwell contends that review of this sufficiency claim is proper because Caldwell’s trial counsel was ineffective for failing to challenge the sufficiency of the evidence before the trial…

experience that would be referred to as boring and “plain” to other people. She uses lots of comparing and describing to drive her point which is that women don’t get things that are as good as what the men have and the women can’t complain about it. She even says that “coal-miners doubtless were sitting down to less” so that she and the other women couldn’t complain about the quality of the food.…

known as an UNESCO Heritage Site located in Alberta, Canada. This bison jump is a known archaeological site, that preserves the early history of Plains First Nations (Brink et al. 1986) Aboriginal people who roamed the Plains understood the importance of resources and regional topography. By understanding how the environment functioned and thrived, Plains people were also able to monitor and develop a better understanding of buffalo mobility and behaviour. (Brink 2008) Aboriginal people built…

landforms in China can be classified as plateaus, plains, Pamir Plateau basins, foothills, and mountains. The highest area of topography' is formed by the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at the average height of over 4,000 meters which also includes Mount Everest. Next to it there are large basins and plateaus, most of which are 1,000 - 2,000 meters high. Mountains divide each feature from one another (China like never before,n.d.). The next area is featured by broad plains which is dotted with the…

culture of the Native Americans of the Great Plains changed drastically during the Western Expansion in the mid-1800’s. Their loss in culture was due to white settlers disturbing their everyday lives. Some examples of ways settlers affected their culture is killing almost all the buffalo and taking their land for multiple reasons. Although the Natives protested, in the end a culture that had lasted for many millennia had come to an end in the Great Plains. Before the disturbance of White…

By looking at most of his artwork you can tell that American Indian women’s played an important role in most of Russell paintings, considering that he produced many versions of the canvas “Indian Women Moving Camp”. The seasonal rounds of plain tribes gave Russell opportunities of showing Indians women riding proudly on their horses. This painting shows the Blackfoot tribe women moving camp. “While the men rode ahead and guarded the flanks, the women moved their children and worldly possessions.…

Philip Morris claimed that the plain packaging prevents them from using their trademarks on the packages of their cigarettes, it violates their company’s intellectual property, company let the government pay for the compensation”.( Fitzgerald 2015) Finally, tobacco firm failed to get…