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    The Apache Indian tribe was originally called nde, or ndee-meaning “The People”. The writing is based around the Lakota story “The Medicine Bag”, and “Apache girl’s rite of passage”. In the story “The Medicine Bag” The main character is named Martin, he is embarrassed about his great grandpa. When he comes to their house to give him something that will lead him on his path of life and keep him safe, he then has a different feeling towards his grandpa. In the video “Apache Girl,” Dachina’s mother

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    interesting information about the Chumash Native American Indian tribe. Find answers to questions like where did the Chumash tribe live, what clothes did they wear and what food did they eat? Discover what happened to the Chumash tribe with facts about their wars and history. What was the lifestyle and culture of the Chumash tribe? The ancient Chumash tribe occupied the southern coastline of California from 700AD and are noted for the many rock

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    ceremonial elements along with the adherence to the practice of avoiding alcohol, devotion to family, and general moral living (www.peyote.net). The ritualistic practice of peyote and shamanism, are commonly linked, however in the case of the Mescalero Apache Tribe the use of peyote in shaman rites had anything but a transcendental effect which eventually lead to the abolishment of peyote from shamanistic ceremony. A lack of harmony

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    Vanessa Atine is a Navajo Indian that was born in the United States. Her family resides mainly in Arizona and southern Utah on the Navajo reservation. She was born and raised as a Navajo, but did not participate in her culture until she moved back onto the reservation two years ago. The Atine family moved around frequently, they have lived all over Utah and Arizona. When Vanessa was in third grade they moved into the Kearns area and stayed until she was in tenth grade. The constant moving was mainly

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    Apache Tribe While some may argue that the Unites States government’s intentions were pure and the Apaches were savages, many can argue that their government did not mean well and the Apaches were simply doing whatever they could to protect their tribe from going into extinction. As the spanish came to the Apache land in 1598 they claimed to only be searching for gold in that region and coincidentally ran into the apache tribe. Some will say that therefore, the government did not purposely take

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    language, they refer to themselves as Diné which means “the people”. They are an old tribe with descendants tracing their roots back to the thirteenth century. The first contact that the Navajos had with white settlers was during the Mexican American War in 1846. The United States conducted peaceful relations with the Navajo for over fifteen years. Forts were built to help protect the Navajo from Spanish/Mexican raids on the Navajo’s cattle. Eventually, a new military commander, James H. Carleton, was

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    Chickasaw Nation Summary

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    remuneration. Robertson had called Ugulayacabe “one of the greatest and influential characters in the Chickasaw Nation,” “sensible,” and said he “controlled three- fourths of the tribe” (Cowger 54). Spain thought the meetings at St. Louis and Mobile, and with the support of Ugulayacabe and Taski Etoka, would build a partnership with the Chickasaws, but Piominko held a different course. A year after the meeting at Mobile, Piominko and other Chickasaw leaders traveled to the state of Franklin to meet

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    in Western Apache Culture is an investigation of situations when members of a certain Apache community in the western United States assume the state of silence as a form of social interaction. In this paper, I will first note details of the society under consideration and Basso’s interests in regards to the questions he is trying to answer. I will introduce some anthropological concepts that are suitable to the discussion, followed by Basso’s observations regarding silence in the Apache community

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    The Apache Indians are a nomadic Native American tribe that mainly abided in the Southwestern states of the United States such as Arizona (Western & Chiricahua Apache), Texas (Lipan Apache), New Mexico (Chiricahua, Mescalero & Jicarilla Apache) and Oklahoma (Plains Apache.) The tribe is traditionally believed to have pioneered from Asia to North America in the early 1500’s. However, the Apache, similar to other Native American tribes, was not fully recognized and discovered until many years

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    depicts the events of three ethnic communities that led to the demise of Apaches within the Arizona territory. Karl Jacoby's Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the violence of History, explores the events leading up to the death of 140 Apaches encamped at Aravaipa. This event which took place near a U.S. military base known as Grant Camp shed light to the justified actions of grouped communities versus the Apaches. The accused groups of Anglo-American, Mexican American, and Tohono O'odham

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