Taiwanese aborigines

A Perspective View of the Native People in the New World Seen by the Eyes of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and John Smith When the first explorers arrived in America from Europe, they encountered many different indigenous peoples of the land. Every pioneer had their own experiences with the native people, varying from educational and boring to threatening and appalling. Many of the meetings became more and more intense as interactions between the explorers and natives became recurrent. These unfriendly encounters became a burden on the relationships of the settlers and often led to some type of hostility. The intense confrontations usually led to the imprisonment of some explorers by the native tribes. Many explorers wrote about their experiences within captivity, descriptions of their captors, and the customs and routines of these aboriginal tribes within their journals. John Smith and Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca are two of those people. Fortunately for John Smith and Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, their captivities were prior to the explorations of many European and the English that became more common and intense. In the early exploration of the New World, treatment of captives was similar. They were not the greatest hosts at times, and were cruel, but did not show hateful undertakings of torment. In his writings, John Smith is seen as being a very arrogant and pretentious person. He speaks of himself and his accomplishments in the third person. He belittles the Native…

Substance abuse among Indigenous Australians has been in on a constant increase over the years and are 2.5 times more likely to smoke daily than non-Indigenous people, and 1.6 times more likely to use any other illicit drugs compared to non-Indigenous Australians (druginfo.adf.org.au 2014). To counteract these statistics there are many rehabilitation programs that directly and exclusively assist Aboriginal Australians in their restoration to quality of living. As said by Karen Sheldon (The…

According to the paper The Politics of Taiwan Aboriginal Origins by Michael Stainton, debates about the origin of Taiwan aborigines were politically determined. Although most scholars reached consent that Taiwan aborigines are populated exclusively by Austronesians, heated debates are caused by one question: where they came from at the first place? This paper argued that this question was crucial because it was related to the nationalism ideology, which further related to the question towards…