Tribal chief

cultures, they rely heavily on the extended family; where many of them are involved, including some unrelated to the patient (such as Godparents), in the healthcare decisions. In American Indian families, the elderly, medicine men and women, the tribal chiefs are sought out to be consulted before a healthcare decision is…

The males were the medicine men, warriors, and chiefs. The female’s role was to raise the children, harvest fruit and crops, cook, and participate in rain dances, basket weaving, and pottery. Both genders took part in storytelling, traditional medicine, music and artwork (Roth, 2006). Both male and…

having direct authority of a specific foreign territory; the colonists would make decisions and announce them to the public directly. However, indirect rule involves the assistance to chiefs, administrators, traditional rulers and leaders playing a role in the system. The colonists would give orders and the chiefs and traditional leaders who would report to the king and the administrator which was both the advisor of the King but also answered to the…

created their own government with new laws and chiefs. The group had their own leaders, government and laws. They also had a chief named George Gist. He was also known as Sequoyah. He was the leader of the group. He decided to create a common (written) language so every one in his new group can communicate with written language. Therefore in early 1800s the chief Sequoyah started to develop a new language and named it Cherokee syllabary language. It took chief Sequoyah about 13 years to develop…

proactive measures to enshrine their self-identity against the accusations lodged against them. With the support of a different set of researchers, anthropologists James Mooney and Frank Speck, many of Virginia’s Indian groups pursued incorporation as a tribal community in order to preserve their “third” race status in the bi-racial state. Though Speck and Mooney viewed the Virginia Indians as a tri-racially mixed people, they did not subscribe to the orthodoxy of the one-drop rule. More…

Nevertheless, Speck’s arrival in Indian River Hundred proved particularly fortuitous for the Nanticoke, who were at the time facing new challenges to their collective identity. Despite the 1881 law that established a tripartite school system, the county appointed a black teacher to work at the Warwick School in the 1910s and several black children were enrolled soon after. A group of Nanticoke responded unfavorably to these turn of events. After withdrawing their children from the Warwick…

Yezidi Kurds into the Iraqi army in the 1930s. While discussing the tribal identities of Jabal Sinjar, she notes how the relationship between the Yezidi Kurds and Sunni Kurds was “scarce...and somewhat strained” (566). For this particular community of Yezidis in Northern Iraq, not only did physical boundaries separate them but the religious divisions were very poignant at times. Often during the mid-1800s, Sunni Kurdish tribal chiefs raided Yezidi villages and attempted to convert the Yezidi…

known as the Treaty of New Echota, was enforced in 1835 and gave Jackson the utmost power to order the Cherokee removal. However, other Cherokees, under the leadership of Chief John Ross, resisted the policies formed under the treaty and held out until the bitter end. About…

between the Europeans and the Algonquian tribes, enough was enough. This interracial marriage was not looked upon negatively. King James I however did wonder how a commoner, John Rolfe, could be married to Pocahontas, the daughter of the prominent chief Powhatan. I believe that King James just thought Pocahontas was out of John Rolfe’s league. His opinion is understandable because Kings and Queens back then would not marry someone they believed was below their noble class. The article then…

Past anthropologists tended to pay too much attention to the elite of a community, such as Chiefs or teachers, who they were unwittingly attracted to because they are more similar to themselves. This can be problematic as seen in Gerald Berreman’s (1962) study of North India where he used an interpreter who was inadequate because of his position…