Send your birth certificate, your Indian parents' birth certificate and if available, your Indian grandparents' birth certificate (otherwise their name and approximate birth date), to the Regional or Area BIA office where your tribe or ancestors are from. If your ancestors were on any of the old census rolls, they might be able to provide you with the name of the tribe(s) you are from and the percentage(s) of Indian blood. This doesn't always work, but it's the easiest and fastest way to prove your Native ancestry. You may need to genealogical research prior to this step. See the information under the "Researching Your Ancestry" under the tab to the right for ideas of where to look for
Anthropology of The Amish ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor Vasilica Margarit April 12, 2013 Anthropology of The Amish Studying anthropology provides useful information on how groups of people choose to behave the way they do, and their reasoning for them. By applying proper methodological approaches to cultural relativism, an anthropologist can use this information to find the answers to various questions as they relate to economic concerns. The Amish society is a sub-culture that is well integrated, however, a closer anthropological examination divulged in this paper will reveal that the world of the Amish is much more dynamic and diverse than the current generally accepted idea of their backwards ways of
Traditional Native American ceremonial ways can vary widely, and are based on the differing histories and beliefs of individual tribes, clans and bands. Early European explorers describe individual Native American tribes and even small bands as each having their own religious practices. There are some features appear to be common to many basic religions that still exist or existed in some form in the nineteenth and twentieth century’s, when anthropologists began to study them. These features have begun also appeared in the historical religions of which we are aware. These common features are; • Animism • Magic •
Textbooks and the Native Americans Within the confines of textbooks, it's easy to take the commonly straightforward dialogue as truth. However, it's crucial to be aware that these texts come from scholars who have simply been influenced by other scholars and their own personal accounts and understanding. This becomes even more visible as we look at texts from different time periods and see the change in accepted information, as well as how this information is presented. In the case of the Native American social structure, through the eyes of European explorers, we see many drastic changes in presentation, and with good reason. “No one knows how many people lived in the Americas in the centuries before Columbus.
Colonial America, settled by Western Europeans, initially displayed social and cultural characteristics similar to the group by which it was founded. As America grew, population density increased, government was established, and a notion of ‘civilization’ was embedded into the American mindset. The previous influences, in combination with other factors, such as America’s distance from Europe, helped the United States wage and win the Revolutionary war. The US, gaining it’s Independence, inevitably was to evolve it’s own unique cultural traits. Early America portrayed the wild frontier as part of their national identity, while common colonial American ideology stigmatized the associated Native American culture as less civilized, as savage, and as subordinate to ‘modern’ eighteenth and nineteenth century societies.
Assignment Part 1 - Short Answer Questions Question 1 How did the authors ensure a representative sample of American Indians were involved in their study? Pace, T.M., Robbins, R.R., Choney, S.K., Hill, J.S., Lacey, K., & Blair, G. (2006). A cultural-contextual perspective in the validity of the MMPI-2 with American Indians. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 12(2), 320-333 In the study by Pace, Robbins, Choney, Hill, Lacey & Blair (2006) the authors ensured a representative sample of American Indians were involved by having two tribes represented in their research. The Eastern Woodland tribe which consisted of approximately
Abstract The article “The Culture-Cognitive Connection,” written by Lea Winerman, explained the recent research on Westerners and East Asians and the differences in their cognitive processes based on their heritage. Psychologist Richard Nisbett, PhD (2006) researched East Asians and Western Americans and the differences in the ways they view the world. The studies are based on how the people’s cultural backgrounds affect their cognitive processes such as categorization, learning, causal reasoning, and even attention and perception. There are examples of case studies, from simple to complex observations, giving evidence to the connection. A Review of “The Culture-Cognition Connection” In the Culture and Cognition Program at the University of Michigan, psychologist Richard Nisbett, PhD (2005), and his colleagues study how people’s cultural backgrounds affect their basic cognitive processes.
Past English Belonging Essay 2010 ‘An individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can enrich or limit their experience of belonging.’ Discuss this view with detailed reference to your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing. When presented with the statement “an individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can enrich or limit their experience of belonging” it is important to consider different texts that are from different contexts. The texts The Castle directed by Rob Sitch, involves an era with multicultural beliefs and the idea that everyone is equal and should be treated equally. This is a great related text for Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita as they deal with different contexts and therefore further prove that the above statement can be seen to be true as seen in these texts. This can be seen through the examples of
Describe the similarities and/or differences in culture and values of Native Americans, Africans and Europeans prior to Europe's contact with the America. Describing the similarities in culture and values of Native Americans, Africans and Europeans are similar in some way, as one will define the concepts of their organ. History has shown that students learn the Columbus discovered America. However, archaeologist can prove otherwise. According to The American People: “Archaeologists have unearthed skeletal remains, pot, tools, ornaments, and other objects to set a tentative date for the arrival of humans in America of about 35,000 B.C.E.- about the same time humans began to settle Japan and Scandinavia” (Nash, Jeffrey, Howe, Frederick, Davis,
5% Graduate degree 2% Race is a Social Reality • Ethnicity and Nationality • Ethnicity and Nationality are • overlapping symbolic categories o Ethnicity: a shared lifestyle informed by cultural, historical, religious, and/or national affiliations o Nationality: membership in a specific politically delineated territory controlled by a government • What is Symbolic is Also Real o Ethnicity is a fluid category; the degree to which an individual can slip and slide through multiple ethnic identities depends on the degree to which those identities are stigmatized o The impact of the National Origins system ▪ It assigned immigration quotas by nationality, favoring European immigration in a “hierarchy of desirability” ▪ Until just a generation ago, whiteness was a condition for citizenship and its benefits • The Five Fallacies o Individualistic Fallacy: racism is assumed to belong to the realm of ideas and prejudices ▪ Racism is not always intentional; it exists in our habits and our social