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    Nutrition is possibly the greatest significant constituent of Indian culture. Rich of the daily unchanging and tradition in Indian paths universally the ritualistic of making and eating food. In history, females widespread their way to the local marketplaces to fill their carrier with potatoes, berries, meat, and catfish. Once amassing them the women would return home to begin ever-ending the flourishes and flour to make additional cornflower tortillas for the evening mealtime. Mexican foodstuff

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    American Indian culture included gambling for many centuries. More than 100 tribes were known to play different versions of dice games before the Europeans settled in the United States. In the United States, gambling on Indian reservations has become quite common. There are 225 tribes in 28 states who operate some sort of gaming facility. Gambling on reservations was initially established to promote economic development in order to increase the standard of living. It was seen as a way to increase

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    The Culture of the Pueblo Long before what is known as today’s civilization and even longer before technology had shown its face, the now-United States of America was majority, if not entirely, populated by the Native Americans. Amongst the various well-known Native American tribes, the Pueblo may very well be the most diverse. From their philosophical views on how our world came to be to their days-on-end labor in the fields to provide for their people, Puebloans were, or rather are, a very unique

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    Mukono 2001: 81). Both the Asian-Indian American culture and Maasai culture has imposed roles of gender based segregation and division of labor. Even though they vary in intensity and rigidness, this paper aims to discuss the similarities and differences between the two patriarchal cultures. A patriarchal is defined as a society is in which males have the primary authority. One approach to further understand the similarities and differences between two cultures is to observe the direct involvement

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    One of the largest similarities between Native Hawaiians and American Indians is they both had their world’s overturned for the sake of the white man to take their lands and make money. As the article, Hawaiians on Tour, explained, it was a group of haole business men that worked with the government to overthrow the monarchy of Hawai’i and set up the farms on the islands. However, in contrast to the American Indians who would be pushed out of their homes for the Anglo-Americans to take over for themselves

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    The Lakota Indians had the sad and unfortunate luck of becoming personally acquainted with the westward thrust of American development when the Americans’ attitudes toward Indians had grown cynical and cruel. This interaction caused the Lakota culture to change a great deal during the nineteenth century. Horses and guns brought about a dramatic change in the Lakota’s culture. They “enabled them to seize and defend their rich hunting grounds, to follow the great migrating herds of buffalo that shaped

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    A Southwestern Indian Culture Among Us Today: The Hopi Indians Did you know that the Ancient Indian people of the Southwestern United States have dated back to the year 10,000 BC? First appearing toward the end of the last Ice Age, they were the first “Americans.” (Noble, 1998) When Christopher Columbus arrived in the America’s in 1492 and seeing the people of this land for the first time, he thought that he had landed in India, thus giving them the name “Indians.” (Noble, 1998) However

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    One of the oldest cultures in the world, India has been civilized for about 4,500 years. Apart of the Indian culture, language, religion, food, and arts are all major qualities. Today, India is the 2nd most populated nation with over 1.2 billion people. India is very diverse and different regions have their own definite culture. Indians made substantial innovations in architecture, mathematics, and in medicine. The third and fourth largest religions in the world, Hinduism and Buddhism, were born

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    illnesses. This includes an individual’s skin color, race, stature, and even psychological coping of illness (Sager, 2011). Model Applied to American Indian Labor and Delivery Application of the Transcultural Analysis to an American Indian culture is accomplished through known cultural beliefs and practices. However, it is important to note that while each culture may have defining characteristics, family and individual practices may vary. To be an effective provider implementation must be tailored to individual

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    Servant Leadership In Indian Culture and Hindu Religion Although servant leadership is often associated with Christianity and assessed in a Biblical context, it is important to recognize that servant leadership is present in other religions and cultural contexts as well. Servant leadership has the capability to exist in any environment where there is humility, selflessness, and a commitment to exhorting and empowering one’s followers. Historically, the best servant leaders have come from a variety

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