The Parsi Community Lands in Jodhpur, India

During the early years of the Paleo-Indian tribes, they exploited a wide variety of exotic plants and animals. Many of these animals were from the Ice Age. This research paper will discuss what kinds of tools they used for growing crops, hunting big animals like the woolly mammoth and the giant ground sloth and what they used them for besides a source of food.

When the settlers invaded the Indian’s homeland, they weren’t happy about it. They were very angry. Some were forced out of their homeland, and others decided to stay because they were afraid to leave. The people who stayed were put into reservations. Reservations still exist today; it is land that is reserved for Indians under a treaty or an agreement. The Indians didn’t want to be put into reservations, but they had no other option but to agree with the government. I looked into the reservations and they still exist today. The Indian Country Today states that there is a housing crisis in Indian country. Despite the Indian Housing Authority's (IHAs) recent efforts, the need for adequate housing on reservations remains acute. I think that it is horrible what they’re going through after all of these years, you would think that they’re living conditions would have gotten better, but sadly it hasn’t improved.

The Plateau Indians lived on the east side of the mountains while the Coastal Indians lived on the west side. I think that the coastal Indians had it easier as they had more resources. Even though the Plateau Indians had horses, they Coastal Indians had plenty of resources due to the marine climate.

Geographic: The geography of the Southern Coastal Plains includes hot humid weather and frequent flooding. This area has scrub brush, mesquite trees, and oak trees. There is plenty of grass and mosquitoes present all year round. This region is located near the Gulf of Mexico.

“One of the most striking features of Indian societies at the time of the encounter with Europeans was their diversity.” Support this assertion with two clear examples.

On Friday, September 11, 1857, 120 emigrants were killed or massacred in southern Utah by Mormons and Paiute Indians on their way from Arkansas to California. They were part of the Baker-Fancher wagon train. Many of the emigrants were from Marion, Crawford, Carroll, and Johnson counties. They started their journey around Boone County in April of 1857 with their leader, who had been to California twice before leading the Baker-Fancher wagon train. About forty families met at Beller’s Stand. After they left Arkansas, the emigrants of the Fancher party traveled through Kansas and Nebraska before entering Utah. They passed Fort Bridger and Salt Lake City before making it to Cedar City. Mountain Meadows is a valley about 35 miles away from Cedar City, where the emigrants were massacred.

The Pomo Indians were located in western California. The Pomo Indians were invaded by Russian fur traders in the 18th century. They are now located all across the united states.

Founded in 1891, the United States Industrial Indian School at Phoenix, later known as the Phoenix Indian School, was a coeducational, federal institution for American Indian primary and secondary students. The school temporarily operated out of the West End Hotel, but in April 1891 a 160-acre property was acquired with money from both the federal government and a group of Phoenix businessmen, and in June 1892 a main school building was completed. This Indian school was created for the purpose of indoctrinating the indian children into the American lifestyle and to eliminate all knowledge of their culture. It did this through the banning of any language that was not english, forcing them to adopt american values and american beliefs, and violating

The Zuni American Indian reservation was chosen as one of the pilot communities in testing intervention methods because of the number of adolescent suicides encountered by the Zuni Tribe in New Mexico. Although the rates of suicide have always been significantly higher in American Indians in comparison to the general public, the numbers of suicides in the Zuni community increased rather drastically between the years of 1980 and 1987 when 13 adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18 years old had successfully completed suicide. Obviously, this number was this extremely upsetting to the community for many reasons, including grief in the loss of their fellow tribe members and because suicide is strictly forbidden in the Zuni culture like many other American Indian populations (LaFromboise, & Lewis, 2008).

After leaving the Squol-quol Theresa worked for a number of years in Bellingham, located 10 miles southeast of the reservation. During these years she worked in the banking industry, at one point serving research and training assistant for a project to improve cultural understandings between the banking community and the Lummi Indian tribe. In 1975 her life took another important turn as she dedicated herself to the Lummi tribe’s effort to establish a fully accredited two-year tribal community college on the Lummi Indian reservation.

The experience of growing up in a small rural town in Minnesota which borders the Prairie Island Indian Community is the first experience which gives me a unique identity. Every year Prairie Island Tribal Council members came to educate students about their culture through lectures, dance, and band performances. These experiences gave me a better appreciation and understanding of my Mdewakanton classmates. As a result, I see the commonality between people, I am interested in learning about other cultures, and I believe experience rather than merely ethnicity defines diversity. The rural aspect of a small town meant farming and factory work provided employment for many citizens. Therefore, the concept of a strong work ethic was continually modeled.

Pawnee women wore deerskin skirts and poncho-like blouses. men wore breech cloths and leather leggings. Men did not usually wear shirts, but warriors sometimes wore special buckskin war shirts. The Pawnee wore moccasins on their feet, and in cold weather, they wore long buffalo-hide robes.Some of the Pawnee Indians wore far like bear,wolf, and coyote.Pawnee Indians wore leather,string and hole bunch of stuff.

The San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, in southeastern Arizona, was established in 1872 as a reservation for the Chiricahua Apache tribe, who were forcibly removed from their original homelands. Also known as "Hell's Forty Acres", due to deplorable health and environmental conditions, the area really serves as a dumping ground for those unwanted by the United States. As stated by Richard J. Perry, the author of Apache Reservation: Indigenous Peoples and the American State, “On the San Carlos Reservation today, about ten thousand Apache live on a 1.8 million acre tract. Government agents in the late nineteenth century demarcated the region in what they considered to be an essentially worthless part of the territory.” (10). Perry also comments

For both of the cases presented, there were similar ethical principles that were violated. In both of the videos, confidentiality was violated. Both the Havasupai Indians and the infants had their blood and information associated with that blood viewed by many researchers who did not originally have consent to this information. The Havasupai Indians had the principles of beneficence and fairness violated. Beneficence was violated when no benefit was given to these people after they had agreed to take part in the study of diabetes that was affecting almost all of them. Fairness was violated when the researchers took advantage of the people not understanding what some of the things they were consenting to were. In the video with the infants, their fairness was violated

Central Idea: India is a fascinating country with diverse traditions related to their language, their costumes, and their cuisine.