Relevance of Bureaucracy in an Organization

For children, a bilingual education links up with enhanced numeracy and literacy skills. For Indigenous children, the teaching of their culture along with Australia’s modern cultures, throughout learning and development, children are better able to engage with the general culture, while still maintaining their own cultural identity (Gugu Badhun Limited, 2012). Thanks to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the Indigenous people are being given back their rights in regard to their language and in turn cultural identity. The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act (2003) is a new promise that the cultural heritage of the Indigenous people will be recognised, protected and managed in Queensland. These are just a few of the reconciliatory ways Australia is giving the Indigenous back the respect and rights they

For libraries to remain a place for a lively exchange of ideas, librarians should be armed with the right knowledge and strong conviction to preserve people’s rights.

In King’s short story, the museum workers are continually trying to remove the totem pole from the museum as Walter, one of these workers, states, “” the totem pole is not part of the show, and we need to move it someplace else”” (King 14). This quote demonstrates the controlling nature of the museum workers in their ongoing pursuit to remove the totem pole from the museum, but each attempt is as successful as their last. The totem pole’s ongoing struggle to survive in the museum is paralleled to the Indigenous people’s ongoing struggle to survive under the oppression of Canadian settlers and governments trying to eliminate them. Another example, from the story, that shows the controlling nature of the museum workers is when Walter attempts to find the owner of the totem pole instead of just leaving it in the show. The simple notion of ownership is different in the Indigenous and non–Indigenous cultures. Indigenous cultures believe that everything is to be shared and no one is an owner of anything, while the non-Indigenous cultures believe that every object seemingly belongs to someone.

These issues with museums and other institutions has led many tribes to not only protest these collections and demand the most sacred items back, but to also develop their own institution that not only tell the real story of their people from a non scientific point of view, but also show the proper resect for the sacred and religious artifacts. Religious sights and objects are a piece of many different groups culture, many of which require a certain level of respect. Within the United States Native American groups are reclaiming these objects for their own

A symbolic object is a powerful tool that helps communicate meaning. Symbolic objects are created and reused by us humans to help give value to our world. Creating culture and a sense of meaning for humans, a symbolic object is nothing without culture. In other words, culture is a sense of values created through history. This is important because symbolic objects can be used to explain untouched issues settlers of this land created with Indigenous people. Indigenous people are people whom originated from a land, such as Native Americans, that settlers from another country devalue. In the film “Smoke Signals” by Chris Eyre, he expresses how difficult it is being an Indigenous person in the 21st century. In this paper, I will explain how a

each Federal agency and each museum which has possession or control over holdings or collections of Native American human remains and associated funerary objects shall compile an inventory of such items and, to the extent possible based on information possessed by such museum or Federal agency, identify the geographical and cultural affiliation of such item (Native 1990).

To start off, a Natural History Museum is usually a place where the public can visit to obtain knowledge on the history of the earth and its inhabitants. Much about people’s culture and customs is found in a Natural History museum, especially people that have made a difference or played a role in history that we learn today. Therefore, the Indigenous peoples are represented in these precise museums. The indigenous people have various amount of customs that are even used today, however, the fact that many of their descriptions are led by the word “histor” or “ancient” almost makes the guests at museums believe that these indigenous people are no longer alive, and that is incorrect. The key objective for a Natural History museum is to simply help connect the understanding of human beings, connections based on culture, communities, to the earth and to each other. Precisely, The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles does not fully represent in depth the qualities that made the indigenous people so innovative, intelligent, and powerful; Therefore, the importance of the indigenous people is almost overshadowed by everything else that is presented at the museum. Overall, the indigenous people are represented here because of their

We went to the “sanctuary” to seek wisdom from an aboriginal “Biblumun” elder .The sense of place and “Noongar culture” was very evident from painting, art, craft and building structure. Wayne Webb opened up one of the burning issues such as the federal funding programme which is miss-directed and causing social and health problem for aboriginal communities (money is used for drugs and other things ).The elder said that the money should be used in way that it should help them to maintain their identity. My question was very well answered by elder that Natural Resources Mangers need to communicate, understand and equipped themselves indigenous knowledge if possible. This went well for

The ineffectiveness of domestic laws in relation to intellectual property highlight the need for both Australia, and New Zealand to implement Article 31 of the UNDRIP; ....They also have the right, to maintain, control, protect and develop their intellectual property over such cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions..... . It is evident that both Australian and New Zealand Indigenous communities face significant challenges in relation to intellectual property rights.

As a 3rd year Anthropology and Sociology student I could not pass up the opportunity to learn more about the relationships between the Federal and State governments and the ongoing battle for recognition and protection of the cultural heritage of Indigenous Australians. From January to February of 2017 I undertook a 5-week Aurora Internship with the North Queensland Land Council (NQLC) based in the Townsville office, and although I have spent over half my life in North Queensland and have a broad knowledge base of Indigenous Australia throughout my travels around the country, friends, family, and my studies, I was not overly familiar with the field of Native Title. I had of course heard of Native title but mostly in short seditious media references

Wampum is traditionally beaded strings and belts which were and are used as mnemonic devices to recount historical events and agreements (Fadden & Thomas, 2006). Throughout my research a common misconception was addressed that the Haudenosaunee did not use wampum as currency, as monetary value was not established prior to contact. Though it was valued, as it was recognized to take a considerable amount of effort to make said belts (Fadden, 2015) Making wampum a key component in initiating, establishing, symbolising and recording different types of relationships between Nations. Accordingly, it is used across many different people including Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee (Ojiig, 2015). Each nation has its own belts and teachings, for this paper we will be focusing on the Haudenosaunee teachings and traditions surrounding wampum. They can all be described as a “Cultural tape recorder” (Hill, 2016), as they capture the essence of a story and make it easier for the story to be told when the belt is there as a physical reminder. People who kept the knowledge of the

Bureaucrat is a dirty word to some people in modern society, so how can a bureaucracy be a good thing? Many Public Administration theorist, argue that bureaucracy is essential to the growth and expansion of the United States. Most of the criticism of the bureaucracy within the government is based on myth versus reality. Federal agencies play a critical and a valuable role within society and are indispensable to the operations of the federal government. Bureaucracy can be simply defined as the system in which decision are made by Public Administrators rather than elected officials (legislator) within the government. However, when the average citizen of just says the single word bureaucracy thoughts and images of evoked over how negative

The word “bureaucracy” has a negative connotation to many people. The fact is that our current system of government would not be able to survive without bureaucracies. The bureaucracy has become the “fourth branch” of the government, it has quasi-legislative and judicial powers and in it’s own field its authority is rarely challenged. The presence of these large, inefficient structures is necessary if the American people want to continue receiving the benefits that they expect.

Americans depend on government bureaucracies to accomplish most of what we expect from government, and we are oftentimes critical of a bureaucracy’s handling of its responsibilities. Bureaucracy is essential for carrying out the tasks of government. As government bureaucracies grew in the twentieth century, new management techniques sought to promote greater efficiency. The reorganization of the government to create the Department of Homeland Security and the Bush administration’s simultaneous push to contract out jobs to private employers raises the question as to whether the government or the private sector can best manage our national security. Ironically, the criticism of the bureaucracy may be a product

Abstract: The theory of bureaucracy was proposed and published by Marx Weber (1947). Although there are some studies on this perspective were discussed before him, those theories did not form as systematic theory. After Weber, the issue of bureaucracy becomes a hot topic in the field of social organization. Almost all well-known scholars such as Martin and Henri have published their views on it. Bureaucracy adapted as the traditional organizational model during industrial society, essentially, bureaucracy could exist rational. This essay firstly will review the principle of bureaucracy in organization based on organizational design perspective. Secondly, it will analyze the strengths and weakness of