Essays on Indigenous People

In many cases, human sickness is inevitable and hence healing is paramount. Healing is the process of restoring physical and mental health as well as well-being from an ill organism (Hodge, & Nandy, 2011). On the other hand, wellness is more than the absence of diseases when it comes to health. Wellness can be defined as the balance of environmental traits that all together helps in maintaining good health status. Some of the existing barriers when it comes to wellness include system barriers, ...

Films and documentaries display filmmakers with the chance to create texts to enlighten audiences about certain topics to persuade, entertain, educate, critique and observe real life. Filmmakers measures varieties of choices through the films to showcase a version of reality through their story. The film Rabbit-Proof Fence written by Christine Olsen and directed and produced by Phillip Noyce and the documentary Mabo directed by Rachel Perkins and produced by Darren Dale. Also, the film Our ...

The Naga Hoho must review and revise its mandate with an aim to concentrate more on the pan- Naga rather than local issues affecting individual Naga tribes. There is plethora of organisations dealing with individual tribal issues. Tribalism has taken its toll onto the Naga society. The Naga tribal community is plagued with inter-tribal disputes and individual tribal grievances. These have to be dealt with my respective tribal blocs / groupings. In such cases, the Naga Hoho or other apex ...

Food insecurity can affect people of all backgrounds, but indigenous communities have unfortunately been impacted the most by this. Statistics show that 1 in 4 Indigenous people suffer from food insecurity (Sobol, 2018). In this paper, I will discuss how the Federal relocation of tribes and reservations have impacted the way that Indigenous people get their food, how the impact of food insecurity has led to mental illness and higher suicide rates and lastly, how Indigenous single mothers make ...

Washington Redskins, K.A.A. Gent, Cleveland Indians, Chicago Blackhawks, Exeter Chiefs, and HC Plzen. These are just a handful of the many professional sports teams still using stereotypical Native American team branding all around the world. It is predominantly North America and Europe who are continuing to display ignorance by refusing to change their offensive team names and/or logos. The primary concern within the Native American community is that European teams have only started to ...

The Indigenous population known as the Inuit or “Eskimo” share an old and traditional culture. The term Eskimo is used by Westerners to identify indigenous peoples of the North Artic. Carleton Coon, an American anthropologist in the 20th century once said “ Eskimos are closely identified with the Santa Claus myth. Because much of Eskimo culture is ingenious, mechanical, and healthy it is a suitable subject of kindergarten study and furnishes out of door patterns for children’s play”, ( Coon ...

There is substantial evidence that wild foods are an important part of the global food and Indigenous peoples have adapted to changing environmental conditions since time immemorial with wild foods. Indigenous people strongly believe that wild foods have better capacity to maintain good health for those who depend on them. These tribes refined their traditional ecological knowledge of when, where, and how animals, plants, algae and fungi could be used as food through their observations of ...

Indigenous people have been constantly battling the social constraints imposed on them which includes health disparities and inequities. Since Indigenous peoples live in isolation with very poor conditions and a lack of opportunity, they suffer from mental health disorders and suicide. Indigenous people lack access to basic counselling services on reserves; the lack of access is an issue that reflects on the social dysfunction unravelling in their communities. Indigenous youth are up to seven ...

The Arctic, the second largest island in the world by area, is known to humans as one of the most diverse regions on earth. Its bountiful resources, unique wildlife, and astounding scenery are not found in other parts of the planet. It contains such rich and distinct materials which people travel from far and wide to attain. Although the Arctic is recognized for its abundance in fisheries, oil, gas and minerals, it has also been facing drastic changes over the last few decades. Some of these ...

Abstract This paper examines the challenges of addressing and combating elder care issues within a First Nations context. This paper suggests the issues regarding insufficient healthcare resources available in reserves where majority of citizens of First Nations community resides. It also sheds the light on the effect of colonialism and residential schools which contributed to psychological abuse that has impacted health of first nation elders and increased their level of vulnerability in ...

The social media is a phenomenon that is considered an infection that spreads between us and has no cure for it. Sadly, social media controls not only our habits but our behaviors as well. It is impossible to imagine our life without social media nowadays. However, all of us check our accounts in different applications as soon as we open our eyes in the morning before we go to the bathrooms. The first thing that comes to our minds nowadays it to document when we do anything or visit any place ...

Empowerment of people can bring about various outcomes mainly with those in the same community. There exists within this complex world of social interaction, social structures, and immense ethnocentrism a geographic phenomenon that molds people into infinite variations of humans. Anthropology creates a platform for mankind to look beneath the surface of communities daily lives and ask many forms of the question ‘why’ when contemplating the agency that brings people to where they are today. In ...

In my Ancient History class we talked about how there are languages such as that of the Harrappans that historians and anthropologists still cannot decipher. On the other hand, there are languages that have been able to withstand the test of time and are protected, even growing in terms of speakers like Hebrew perhaps which is not same as it was when first spoken but still exists and is a living language. This made me wonder about something I knew a little more about and caused a snowball ...

It is the mid sixteenth century, some place in the Central American wild. An ungulate runs uncontrollably through the forested areas beforehand it springs a trip wire trap and is speared on a swinging branch overflowing with spikes. Energetic Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood) puts the ungulate out of its sadness and enthusiastically isolates its inside organs between his related searchers; Curl Nose (Amilcar Ramírez), Smoke Frog (Israel Contreras), and Cocoa Leaf (Israel Ríos). Blunted (Jonathan ...

The study and value of indigenous literature has been increasing in the past years and regional literature is now getting more attention and praise than ever before. The value which indigenous language brings to the variety of our literature is impeccable. With greats such as Seamus Heaney, Grace Nichols and Bob Marley, it can be seen that their literature is being credited for and appreciated all around the world due to the use of their own language, dialect, and style of writing. As the ...