Tlingit

Also, it projected to trade the mineral rights of 166,000 acres in the refuge for surface rights to 896,000 acres that was owned by organizations of six Alaska native groups, which included Aleuts, Eskimos and Tlingits. The report debated that the oil and gas possibilities of the coastal plain were needed for the country's economy and national security. Environmentalists said that drilling for oil would unnecessarily threaten the life of the Porcupine caribou because…

The Nacirema is a “tribe” in North America. The ethnographic analysis describing the rituals of the Nacirema was written by Horace Miner and actually describes American culture in the 1950s. The article illustrates how anthropologists view and describe other cultures. By turning the analysis on our very own culture, we see how language can influence the reader’s perception of that culture. For example, Miner uses words such as “ritual” “ceremony” and “religious” to describe ordinary activities.…

robbing a store. Instead of going to court and most likely jail, Cole is sent to Circle Justice. It is decided that Cole should be sent away to a remote island to begin his learning and recovery. With the help of Garvey, a parole officer, Edwin, a Tlingit elder, and even a Spirit Bear who mauled him, Cole begins to learn from his past mistakes. To help him along his way Cole is taught multiple methods to try and control his anger and violent thoughts. Over everything else, the biggest and most…

Matthews a fifteen year old from Minneapolis, Minnesota arrives in Southeast Alaska in handcuffs. Cole agrees to stay on a neglected island in Alaska all alone for a year to avoid jail time in Minneapolis. Accompanied by Two Native Americans from the Tlingit tribe; one named Garvey, a parole officer, and the other named Edwin, a quiet elder who helped arranged Cole’s banishment. Edwin was the one who built a shelter where Cole would stay during his time of banishment. Cole Matthews was not a…

In addition, when animals are represented as transfigured humans, both Disney films and oral folktales highlight the superiority of humans in relation to animals by conflating happiness with the restoration of the human condition. In The Emperor's New Groove, Kuzco regains his human form, is reinstated as emperor, and shares his wealth with Pacha and his family. In The Princess and the Frog, Navene and Tiana regain access to the human condition because of Tiana's new status as a princess, and…

Chloe Duke 10/10/15 Ak Studies My memory of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Alaska is very vivid in my mind. I remember hearing about it first happening in the lower 48. To be more specific in Boston and then how it spread the flu to Philadelphia all spreading from shipyard to shipyard, boat to boat, person to person. On September 17, a ship docked at the Puget Sound Naval Station, which is near Seattle, Washington, where longshoremen loaded steamships that happened to be bound for…

A gift is viewed as an expression and maintenance of relationships, whereby the objects (gifts) do not hold any monetary value but rather is an expression of sentiment and cultural love. The ideology of the gift in Euro-America according to (Carrier, 1990, p.19-37) is a “reflection of socio-economic situation in which people find themselves in different economic significances of productive and familial relation.” Gifts create and maintain social groups in society, Mauss speaks about the…

Introduction There seems to be no small amount of literature on how Native Americans are represented in our popular culture. Over the past several decades, Native Americans have been mythologized in films, TV, and other forms of popular media. And, “For the most part, the white man’s visual expressions of Native peoples have been dominant” (Boehme, et al. 1998:75). It is these depictions that have created a false impression of American Indians. As anyone could guess, the conquest of…

For example “The Northwest Coast culture area includes groups such as the Tlingit in present-day Alaska, the Coast Salish in British Columbia and Washington, the Chinook in Washington and Oregon, and various Athapaskan and Penutian-speaking tribes in Oregon. (“Native American Culture Areas of North America”) even though all these…