Summary Of ' Tribes ' By Seth Godin

“Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging”, by Sebastian Junger, is an insightful examination of the flaws of a modernized society. Through scientific evidence and first-hand accounts, the book explores the correlation between a nation’s level of modernness and it’s rates of mental illness. Junger careful choice of words and phrasing shows that he is not arguing that a tribal society is better than a modern society- as “there’s no use arguing that modern society isn’t a kind of paradise” - but is instead proposing a blend of both society’s beneficial qualities (Junger 108). His chronological writing style within “Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging” allows for the development of his argument. Particularly focusing upon Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in veterans, Junger utilizes accounts from Vietnam War and World Wars to bring light to the “antihuman society” set forth by our modernized ways (Junger 93).

“Will my tribe forget the tradition?” This is a line from the poem Tribal Land by Dale Backo. This poem is about an Aboriginal man worrying for the future of his tribe, all his worries are from the fact that the “white man” is taking over their land and everything they own. Towns are being built, shops and new technology is being introduced which is changing everything they once knew.

Do peace, unity, and equality still exist this day in time among groups of people? Are we influenced by our environment to associate our way of seeing things and create language based on that fact? How we view the environment around us helps shape our understanding by creating language to give it meaning. Based on the linguistic data of the recently discovered tribe, we can draw conclusions about the tribe’s climate and terrain, diet, views on family and children, system of government and attitude towards war. This data shows that the lost tribe was an isolated group that lived in a valley, coexisted in unison, valued life, had high regards for

The five tribes are known as the Five Civilized Tribes. The five tribes are the Cherokee Indians, Chickasaw Indians, Choctaw Indians, Creek Indians, and Seminole Indians. These five tribes weren’t apart of the original allotment act (Calloway 423). This act was giving land to the nations in continual effort to “civilize” the Indians. All five of the tribes renovated their financial, teaching, and administrative design after the removal procedure, and were workable as self-ruling government (Calloway 423). The tribes had to readjust to policies imposed by the government, and also adapt to life in a new location with new people.

In the tradition of Native American culture, there is no custom of written records of personal life or tribal history. Even though they have written language, the major way to record history is by oral storytelling. Those stories focus more about creation time, tribal and family history rather than individual life. Recording autobiography from different Native American tribes is a convention way for anthropologists to preserve the Indian traditions, which gradually decline and lost after Native American contact with Western culture. Moreover, the autobiographies of Native American individuals also fulfill the public curiosity about their culture. Nevertheless, the culture differences create the confusion and misunderstand in the written records. For the people does not familiar, and understand the Indian cosmology, the autobiography provides us as a tool to reveal the secret veil of Native American. In the same time, it leads a certain degree of deduction about the narrator original meaning.

In chapter 3 (“Native and Christian”) of Joel Martin’s book, Native American Religion (1999), two distinct paths were discussed on how Christianity spread among the Natives in the 19th century and how this spread of Christianity impacted the Native people in different ways. The chapter focused mainly on the story of Catharine Brown, a Cherokee Indian that attended a missionary Christian boarding school (e.g., Brainerd) in New England, and various examples of Native people that criticized Christianity and believed that Christianity and the Native religions should be kept separate. The story of Catharine Brown is the central focus of the majority of the chapter, as compared to the Natives who rejected Christianity; Catharine Brown’s story is

What is a good leader ? A good leader needs to be someone people can look up to, and trust. A good leader should also be intelligent and trustworthy. I have been the Vice President of the Mendocino Spartan 4-H Club for two years, and hope to be president next year. And I know what it takes to be a good leader. Some of the qualities I had to learn where to include everybody, including the younger kids. And how to make people feel confident in me even when I wasn't confident in myself. The hardest thing for me, was to be responsible and prepared, it is really important so I had to learn, I asked for help from all the great leaders in our community.

The authors of the Cherokee tribe website, use the ancient method that the Cherokee tribe used to inform tourists or people who want to learn about the ancient culture of the Cherokee tribe. The authors also want to show how the Cherokee thought how the earth, sun, and moon came to be. The intended audience is to men or women who want to learn how the Cherokee thought about the earth or even students who need information for their projects. This piece of information illuminates my research topic because this story shows how the Cherokee tribe thought about the world and underlines the key values that the Cherokee tribe believes in. This information could also show how the Cherokee tribe really thinks about the Sun and its own daughter and why

In this article, “Doing What’s Best for the Tribe”, author Marcia Zug, an associateof law at the University of South Carolina. Describes a court case that involves a Cherokee Nation father and a non-indian mother. Few months into the the mother's pregnancy, she began to look into adoption. The mother soon found a non- indian family and decided to go through with the adoption without the father knowing. The father had no information until after baby Veronica was four months old. Dustin Bowen, the father was determined to fight for his daughter. After two years in the South Carolina Supreme Court finally made their ruling. On July 26, baby Veronica was reunited with her

Veterans win wars and endure the trauma that entails with them only to come back home and die in the comfort of their own communities. In Sebastian Junger’s book, Tribe, he expresses his beliefs on the importance and strength of social bonding and how people are stronger as an emotionally and socially intertwined “tribe”. In his book he specifically confronts the community of veterans that return from war and the ordeals that they suffer. His concerns lie with the fact that veterans lack a feeling of belonging and a sense of productivity back in society that they had once felt while deployed. To further the understanding of these veterans, studies from Doctor Stefan G. Hofmann, Doctor Melissa D. Wilson, and information provided by the American Psychiatric Association will be used to help explain.

What qualities make someone a good leader? A leader is someone who has the ability to take control and charge of a group. A leader is there to guide, manage, and provide assistance to a group in a specific situation. Good morning fellow survivors. Right now, I would want to persuade you why I, Ralph, should be the leader of you fellow boys.

One of the biggest lessons learned from this course is that to be an effective leader, you must have a diverse skillset. I’m not sure if there is any one magical component or characteristic in being a great leader. One influence during my review of the literature was that; although easier for some, I see leadership as something we must continually improve upon. This is in contrast to my belief during my first day of class, when I thought leaders just

This chapter, set in another part of the woods, introduces three more characters. Two of them are familiar; that is, they are familiar if the reader is familiar with other works by James Fenimore Cooper. Hawkeye (or Natty Bumppo) and Chingachgook have been serialized in several of the author's books. This chapter not only shows the close ties of these characters as they discuss familiar subjects but also shows the knowledge of the author about Indian customs and the historical background of America. It also depicts his sympathy for the Indians who were colonized and driven off their lands by European settlers. Cooper depicts his Indians as having keen senses and extensive skills. Hawkeye, for all his woodcraft, cannot match them; he cannot

I believe that developing leadership skills is not a rapid process, but it is a daily process. The best place people learn how to lead is from their daily experiences. Therefore, my job experience helped me to be more familiar with this topic and I gained additional worthy information from the class materials and lessons. Writing a biography was an amazing experience that helped me to look back in my life, review it in details, know what I did in the past and discover myself better. I did many of the book’s assessments and exercises and I found them totally thought-provoking and useful materials. They assisted me to think more about my leadership potentials and skills. Doing the exercises made me more aware of my strengths and weaknesses in the area of leadership. I read in the book about 10 qualities that mark a leader and help influence the leadership process. Those qualities listed as: vision,

“Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.” John Maxwell. Not everyone is equipped to be a leader. Great leaders have the ability to establish a set direction and principles to guide their companies in an efficient way. It is believed that certain people possess traits that make them good leaders and researcher focus in personality, social, physical, or intellectual qualities that would identify them as leaders from the rest of the people. A few ideas have been developed over the years in the effort of define leadership. One of this is the Fiedler contingency model and Hersey and Blanchard’s Situation Theory. One of the situations that comes to mind is the story found in the Bible about Joshua when he was selected to spy the land of Canaan, and return to report on what was found, the land flowed with milk and honey. While others may only see problems before it true leaders can see possibilities and endure the opposition until they see an open door.