Tribal chief

How do primitive tribal societies govern themselves? The Igbo are a tribe that live in West Africa, primarily southern Nigeria. They are traditionally farmers that commune in small villages that make up a clan. The Igbo live in a society where death is common and surviving is a highly valued skill among their society. This rugged lifestyle where survival is dependant on the competence of each individual has helped shape Igbo culture and government. There are 2 types of government found…

The struggle and persistence for identity and sovereignty by the Seminoles from the 1820s to the 1850s served as an early example of the evolutionary process by way of legal channels and treaty language and negotiation to attain them. Their defiance against removal and Creek integration emerged during an era that defined Native American sovereign status and nationhood in relation to American constitutional interpretation. Their struggle was an early example of a civil rights movement that took…

Sitting Bull: The Stubborn Chief Is there anyone that has made the general population change their whole perception on a whole race? Sitting bull was born on the plains near the black hills in South Dakota. Growing up in a traditional native tribe he was pretty sheltered to the rest of the world. As a young child he was just an average child with nothing specifically special about him. When he was ten he killed his first buffalo which officially made him a man. At the age of fourteen he was…

being attached to various roles. Joseph’s status as a man who is soon to be tortured as per the war party comes with the role (or expectation) that he have a communal event where everyone is fed and has fun in advance of the enactment of the ancient tribal tradition. Additionally, those concepts are seen in the seating arrangement, as the elders of the tribe are given platforms to sit on, while the younger members are forced to squeeze together on the…

officials voted to maintain the name of the Berlin High School Indians after 92 percent of the local community and 90 percent of the student population voted in favor of keeping the name in a local survey (“7 States”, 2015). The 2007 retirement of Chief Illiniwek at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has had some controversy. After the name was changed, the university still argued that the mascot name was an honor for Native Americans. The nickname "Fighting Illini" was all they…

movement of these Indian tribes and wanted to move them west of the Mississippi River. Some Indians that were not full blood had agreed to sell their lands to the government, but others that were full blood were quite reluctant. A man by the name of Chief William McIntosh decided…

One November Morning was created by descendants of survivors of the Sand Creek massacre. The artwork depicts the events of that day. The works by artists Brent Learned (Arapaho), George Curtis Levi (Cheyenne), and BJ Stepp (Cheyenne) focus on the remembrance, honor and strength of their ancestors and leaders. Levi and Learned organized the exhibition which changed slightly at each venue based on which other artists could participate. In order to create this exhibition, Levi and Learned…

The Indian Removal Act, or Trail of Tears, was a massive forced migration of many Indian tribes in the southeastern United States in the mid 1800’s. The Indian Removal Act caused a massive disturbance in the Native American tribes of the southeast United States. In the early 1830’s thousands of Cherokee Indians lived on a vast expanse of the southeastern United States, however, in the end of the 1840’s hardly any remained as a result of the Indian Removal Act (History). The Indian Removal Act…

They based their argument on clan chiefs, kings or heads that held monopoly power in African settings. They rejected any form of party system of governance that was different from the one-party system, claiming that it was alien to the African traditional system of government. Furthermore…

Modern social anthropology has become a study of the variations and common concepts within cultures and results of these ideas. Due to the homogenization of larger societies it is necessary to observe civilizations unblemished by the standardization of modern societies. These cultures such as the Dyaks, Hopis, Fijians and Yakuts are significant for study due to their isolation providing them the opportunity to form localized social norms. When it comes to higher cultures universal forms and the…