A Study On The Origin Of The Kikuyu

According to the Maasai oral history, they came from a crater or deep valley somewhere

Before the arrival of European influence, villagers of Umuofia had a single option for a way of life. It was a place to be feared, dominated by war and violent practices. Ibo culture is centered on a patriarchal system based on hierarchy; the highest titles held by male egwugwu in the legal system and the osu at the bottom. The main character, Okonkwo, represents the ambition to strive for a higher position in society in order to gain status: “His life had been ruled by a great passion-to become one of the lords of the clan” (131). Another aspect in Ibo culture is the representation of women. They are undermined in order for men to achieve success; bride prices are used to able men to marry more than one wife and husbands are

Kakadu’s traditional owners were the Indigenous Australians that were split into two different language groups. Bininj is the traditional name for the Indigenous Australians from the north of Kakadu and Mungguy is the traditional name for the Indigenous Australians from the south of Kakadu. Kakadu’s clan consists of two or more family groups which share the ownership of the land. The boundaries of the land is passed on from generation to generation which is generally through the father. Kakadu consists of around about 19 family clans.

The four clans Changing Woman made are Hashtl’ishnii (Mud People clan), Kin Yaa’aanii (Towering House clan), Honagaahnii (One Walks Around You clan), and To dich’iinii (Bitter Water clan). The Mud People clan are the creative ones. They weave, craft, and farm. They were given the Black Jet Gish by Changing Woman which they used to get muddy water out of the ground. The Towering House clan are the teachers and leaders. They were given the White Shell Gish by Changing Woman which they threw against a canyon wall because it would not give them water. The

The Makah Indians lived in the Pacific Northwest Coast (in Washington State). They lived on a reservation which means that they owned the land so that land was under their control. They live by the shore which is by ocean that they lived by. The Indians had 5 permanent villages, Waatch, Sooes, Deah, Ozette, and Bahaada. Each village has several long housed that are made of cedar planks and they are eached measured about 30ft wide and 70 ft. long.

The migration of the Bantu people took place from western Africa to the majority of the southern half of the continent. The first group of Bantu people to migrate made villages along the Congo River. With the villages being intertwined with the dense rain forests, some groups continued to journey in search for better farming land. Those Bantu groups ended up heading south towards the eastern coast of Africa.

the Nyansongo of Kenya, and the Ilocos of the Philippines, for instance, mothers and fathers

In the past, the Yurok did not have an active political system or form of social control. (Kottak) There was no one man to lead the tribe; they did not practice chiefdom. Nevertheless, the Yurok simply had a set of principles to which the tribe would adhere to. An example of one of these principle is, if a tribal member were to commit an act of violence toward another member of the tribe, the person who committed the act would have to pay full compensation, depending on the severity of the act. Today the Yurok are governed by a tribal council. The tribal

The Role of Women in the Ibo Culture The culture in which 'Things Fall Apart' is centered around is one where patriarchal testosterone is supreme and oppresses all females into a nothingness. They are to be seen and not heard, farming, caring for animals, raising children, carrying foo-foo, pots of water, and kola. The role of women in the Ibo culture was mostly domestic. The men saw them as material possessions and thought of them as a source of children and as cooks.

Further, the Hmong families are divided by which clans and subgroups they are a part of. There are 19 clans identified within the Hmong culture (Kou 2012). It has been said “The clan acquires its membership through a patrilineal system, identifiable by the male’s last name and therefore, lineage” (Tatman 2004). The clans acquire their names based on the relationship to the father. For example, “Marriage by two individuals within the same clan is not allowed, despite genealogical distance between members” (Tatman 2004). The men are typically the individuals to leave their clan and find a wife suitable for them because in the article it explained, “Under the clan system, wives, and subsequent children, become members of the husband’s clan, and total loyalty to this new clan is expected” (Tatman 2004).

Polygyny and father-son Inheritance are important aspects of the igbo culture although they are only two of many. Polygyny is the practice of having multiple wives, which in the igbo tribe determined your social status. “ There was a wealthy man in Okonkwo’s village who had three huge

The tradition Gbandi social order is fundamentally based on polygyny and prior to the influence of western culture, most man aimed for attained control over several wives, large house hold with many wife and children established the social foundation for man to assume the prestigious status of big house hold and economic basis for controlling substantial productive operation. With these assets, man establishes himself as important member or leader in the community.

The Mbuti people are known as foragers because their main source of survival lies on hunting and gathering as they move from one place to another. They originated from a region in Africa called Congo. The Mbuti people even with their fairly decent population prefer to be grouped into smaller groups or bands which are mostly made up of close relatives. They live in the rainforests of central Africa, where they have lived popularly for more than 6000 years now.

Deep in the Mukogodo forest located in west central Kenya is where you will find the last of the Mukogodo people. Throughout history there have been significant changes for the Mukogodo people as they try to transition their culture and ethnicity to be Maasai. Before the transition in the early 1920’s to Maasai, Mukogodos were foraging, bee keeping people with their language, Yaaku, and lived in rock caves. Now they are pastoralists who speak only Maa, and no longer live in caves. Sadly even after all the changes they have made, Mukogodos are still not accepted as Maasai and are viewed as the bottom rung of the regional hierarchy.

The world in Chinua Achedes novel, Things Fall Apart, was a society in which males had control of everything, and the women had control of nothing. As wives, women were seen as property, rather than as partners to be loved and cherished. The men of the Ibo tribe usually married more than one wife because the more wives, yams, barns, and titles each Ibo man held, the more successful he was considered. These possessions determined a man's social status. An example of a man looking for social status in these ways was Nwakibie, "who had three huge barns, nine wives and thirty children, and the highest but one title which a man could take in the clan"(18). The men controlled the