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Oral Traditions and Outside Resistance of the Hopi

In eight pages this paper discusses the Hopi culture in terms of its oral religious traditions as well as its steadfast resistance...

African-American and African Cultural Beliefs on Masculinity

This paper examines the differences in how the concept of masculinity is viewed among African-American and African men. This elev...

Religious Views of Hopi and Navajo Tribes

In seven pages this research paper examines the religious views of these tribes and the artistic impact as seen in the Hopi kachin...

Comparative Analysis of Havasupai and Hopi Ceremonies

In a paper consisting of ten pages the differences and similarities between Havasupai and Hopi ceremonies are explored with an emp...

Changing Havasupai and Hopi Ceremonies

In ten pages this paper examines ceremonies of the Havasupai and Hopi in terms of similarities along with how and why changes over...

Hopi Society and Gender Roles

In nine pages this paper examines early and modern Hopi cultural roles for women in terms of differences and evolution. Ten sourc...

Hopi Traditions and 'Koyaanisqatsi' or Life out of Balance

In five pages this concept is examined within the context of the Hopi way of life and its ceremonial rituals. Six sources are cit...

Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No Turning Back A Hopi Indian Woman's Struggle to Live in Two Worlds

represent one of the most fascinating cultures of the earth yet she makes a circuitous trail coming to this realization. Her life...

Goals, Beliefs, Values, and Norms of American Society and its Subcultures

have purposefully separated themselves from the rest of society as a means by which to build a community of their own jurisdiction...

Leo Simmons' Edited Text Sun Chief

a government boarding school he was pressured to cleanse himself of practically all elements of his traditional culture. He was f...

African Americans: History, Culture, Families, Beliefs and Religion

African slaves brought to the New World were sent to what is now the United States (Horton, 1997). Most of the rest went to the Ca...

"Smoking Among Chinese Americans: Behavior, Knowledge, And Beliefs" - Summary And Response

The authors recognize how utilizing this single Chicago community is not sufficient to represent the entire Chinese American popul...

Health Beliefs of African Americans

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

The Nature Lover Subculture

and Ryan, 2003). As a result, a number of German hiking societies developed with the Friends of Nature with its motto Free Mounta...

The Myths of Westward Expansion

that the Anglo Americans were superior to the Natives. They believed that they had the power, and the right, to take over land. Wi...

A Study of Anabaptist Reform

controversial issue in the sixteenth century, as ecclesiastical and state authorities viewed the ritual of infant baptism as repre...

Jerry Mander/The Indian Worldview

of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...

Columbus, Hero or Villain?

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

The Bennett Scale and Milton Gordon on Assimilation and Native Populations

culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native Americ...

Native Americans: The Four Directions

the directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...

Native Americans and Hetch Hetchy Valley

became the first whites to actually see the valley (Ahwahnee, 2007). The Screeches encountered Pah Utes (Paiutes) camping in Hetch...

Islamic Beliefs and the Five Pillars of Wisdom

he refused Gods command to bow down to Adam" (Horn, 2004). This is slightly different from Christian theology, which maintains tha...

Variations in European and Native American Interactions

The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...

Do American Catholics Accept Vatican Council II

(Broderick, 2003). Greeley (1998) explains some of the effects of Vatican Council II. Prior to that Council, decisions in the Chu...

Mato Tilpali: Conflict in the Black Hills

Mato Tipila regularly as part of my religious observations, this is not only a political issue for me but also a personal issue. ...

Instructional Beliefs/Reading

to teaching reading that works best for all students, research indicates that there are factors in the instructional setting that ...

Reintroduction of the Gray Wolf

its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...

Colonial America: New England and the Chesapeake

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

Flood Stories Among the Toltec, Maya, and Navajo

(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...

“Major Problems in California History”

effort in categorizing the tribes that populated the area and speculating as to their origin. He observed their subsistence patte...