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  • Indian And Western Cultures
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    A couple of years ago, I had invited my best friend Je nene, to attend an Indian wedding. I thought it might be fun for her to experience the different foods, clothing, personalities, and religious beliefs that were particular to my culture. Later on that evening she had pulled me to the side and told me that the culture that she was raised in was completely different from mine. She was raised in New York all of her life and she had never experienced such a distinct culture. At that time I told ...
  • Indians Revolt
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    Nine Guardians Throughout time man has oppressed his own kind. In The Nine Guardians man, in this case the Spanish man is oppressing the Mexican Indians. Just like history before the oppression of the Mexican Indians the oppressed revolt. In The Nine Guardians when the Indians revolt it causes death, degradation of a family, mental strain to the point of insanity and property damage, just as revolts before it. Death is caused by a revolting Indian, attempting to stop a "help letter" from arrivin...
  • 1 Million Asian Indians In America
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    SUBJECT = SOCIOLOGY All Human beings live in what for them is a Multicultural world, in which they are aware of different sets of others to whom different cultural attributions must be made, and of different cultures of which they are aware and expected to operate. W.H. Wood enough. TITLE = MULTICULTURALISM The term Multiculturalism has recently come into usage to describe a society characterized by a diversity of cultures. Religion, language, customs, traditions, and values are some of the comp...
  • Their New Home Jeronimo Since The Prisoners
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    The Mosquito Coast In the movie The Mosquito Coast, the Foxs family dropping out and leaving America for a new life in the South American jungle, as Allie Fox took away the perfect world from his family. Then, they bought a piece of land on the banks of the Sib un river into the fictional town of Jeronimo, which started in disarray, but the Foxs family fixed up Jeronimo with the others who had already settled there. When this town became their home with everything that they needed to survive. Ev...
  • Old Girls Perspective Of The Indians
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    The Nine Guardians Nine Guardians takes places in the State of Chiapas, in Mexico, where from the remains of the Mexican revolution came the presidency of Lazaro Cardenas. His presidency takes places between 1934 and 1940, during the time this novel takes place. Cardenas expropriated foreign-held properties, distributed land to peasants, and instituted reforms to benefit indigenous people and Mexican workers. Cardenas found it unfair for the Indians to not be treated as equals, so he demanded ri...
  • Old Matt Alone In The Wilderness
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    Thirteen-year-old Matt is left alone in the wilderness of Maine in 1768 to protect his family's claim. He is befriended by Penobscot Indians who teach him how to survive. Adapted from Elizabeth George Speare's "The Sign of the Beaver", this powerful drama stars Keith Carradine as a pioneer who reluctantly leaves his 13-year-old son in the wilderness while he retrieves the rest of the family. It's 1768, and a colonial family is seeking a new life in the wilderness of Maine. The father must reluct...
  • Life Of Mary Jemison
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    An Essay on Aspects of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison Imagine, a teenage girl of fifteen, leading a typical family life in rural America, suddenly, with little warning, having she and her family violently set upon and abducted by a strange band of invaders. These kidnappers, so different in actions, customs and appearance that the mere sight of them brought a terror that the next breath might be their last. Is this a present day kidnap story. No! It occurred in 1758 to Mary Jemison during the Fre...
  • Case Of Eunice Williams Her Father
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    Why did Eunice Williams remain unredeemed? There is no singular reason as to why Eunice Williams remained unredeemed. There are however some factors which are likely to have played a more important role than others, such as her loss of English, her religion, the difference in her environments and the difference in her upbringing with the Indians in comparison to her life in New England. The lack of extensive documents on her captivity and the one sidedness of the sources make it difficult to dra...
  • 2000 Anna Mae Pictou Aquash
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    Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash (1945-1976) Mimac Activist and Educator April 3, 2000 Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a Micmac Indian rights activist, was born on March 27, 1945 in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, the third daughter of Mary Ellen Pictou and Francis Thomas Levi. In 1949 her mother married Noel Sapier, the son and brother of traditional Micmac chiefs, and the family moved to Pictou's Landing where the family was raised in poverty. Anna lived in a house with no heat, water, or electricity and subsisted l...

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