...Demographics of urban Native Americans Urban Native Americans are the fastest-growing segment of native populations. Due to the lack of economic stability Native Americans are moving away from their traditional reservations in search of employment. Native Americans are faced with many new and unforeseen cultural aspects that they are not accustomed to. Urban Native Americans had to overcome these challenges for the benefits of their families. The US federal government had a doctrine to try to simulate Native Americans into mainstream society. The US federal government tried different approaches such as establishing Bureau of Indian affairs schools, so that they could instill Western-style education that would replace traditional teachings of their cultures. This movement was called “killed Indian save the man”. The next avenue of approach the federal government news was the relocation program that ran from 1948 through 1979. This program was this designed to relocate and train Native Americans in jobs that were located in major metropolitan cities. Federal government thoughts where to give Native Americans new life’s often it lead to Native Americans losing touch with their Native American identities. These cities were Denver, New York, Los Angeles and other major metropolitan areas. Present-day these cities have large urban Native American populations. Their transition to city life was often difficult due to a lack of necessary support (i.e. finding housing, accessing job training...
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...Native Americans (including Alaskan natives) consist of 5.2 million people making them only 1% of the whole United States population. There are over 566 recognized tribes and 324 federally-recognized Native American reservations. The largest tribes are Navajo, Cherokee, Choctaw, Sioux, Chippewa, Apache, Blackfeet, Iroquois, and Pueblo. Although Native Americans live all throughout the United States, they mostly populate California, Oklahoma, Arizona, Texas, New York, New Mexico, Washington, North Carolina, Florida, and Michigan (US Bureau of the Census). To be considered a Native American depends on who you ask because the rules for each tribe varies. Some tribes use the method known as the blood quantum which defines membership by the degree...
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...Native American Culture, Text and Curriculum ! 1 Native American Culture, Text and Curriculum Scott T. Timmerman Wisconsin Lutheran College Native American Culture, Text and Curriculum ! 2 Abstract In Wisconsin there is nothing so familiar yet so invisible as the presence of the Indian culture. We find ourselves surrounded by the history of the Native Americans no matter where we go. There are 11 Indian reservations, numerous cities and counties named after Indians and historical images and museums throughout the state. Nonetheless, the vast majority of people from Wisconsin know little about the past or the current culture of the original Americans. There are currently hundreds of different cultures today for Native Americans, yet the still existing Native cultures are lumped under one mistaken title, Indian. Most non-Natives have either never knowingly met a Native person or are unaware of the presence of modern Native communities. They do not know Native American history and they assume Native Americans are only to be found in history. Most children today do not realize that Native Americans are still part of our state today. We need to take a close and honest look at the ways in which Native stories, Native life, and Native people are presented to our children in the classrooms. We need to examine and understand how important children’s literature can be. It can reinforce the worst in us and in our children or it can encourage true intellectual growth. Most...
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...different cultures on a number of domains in Cross-Cultural Psychology. Certain trends or domains are prevalent in the field of cross cultural psychology including evolution and biology, awareness and reasoning, morals and outlooks, social psychology, behavior in culture, therapy and mental health, gender issues, parenting and human development, cultural change and ethnic psychology, also work and structural psychology. Additional trends consist of collectivism and individualism, towards common characteristics and original psychologies (Kagitcibasi and Barry, 1989). Other themes researched, such as in the Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, are global in nature, with research focused on intracultural study for instance the change of Asian American migrants to United States also on intercultural study for instance the growth of mathematics perceptive between kids in...
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...America is a young country that has a diverse combination of people. In the 1700s many people from all over the world migrated to America and spread across the nation. This affected the people migrating and/or American society. Native American migration, The Homestead Act, and The Great Migration are analyzed as different events of migration in the US throughout its history. In the 17th and 18th century European colonists started coming to North America to settle. Many of the Native Americans who met these colonists died because of foreign diseases which the colonists brought with them. After a few hundred years and a couple wars, a new nation was born. America was a fast growing country, and the president at the time found the...
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...Multicultural Families Tammy Thomas Liberty University Abstract This paper discusses the dynamic issues involving the diversity of multicultural families in regards to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic, gender and sexual orientation. This paper will also highlight same or different minority or cultural backgrounds, identity and biases involving multicultural families. How multicultural families incorporate their beliefs, cultures and values into a family unit as well as the transformation of acculturation. Challenges involving racial identity, ethnicity; where do people with different cultures fit in and make it work; the population of multicultural families has risen and continue to do so. Socioeconomic status in multicultural families varies from household income, occupation, education level, and upper, and middle or lower class standard of living. Certain barriers may contribute to multicultural families such as language, behavioral, health and mental stress, depression, roles of husbands and wives, gender, sexual orientation; family values are very important in interracial families, are the collaborations among families discussed to blend values from each culture. This paper will portray the dynamics of multicultural families. Keywords: multicultural, families, race, ethnicity, acculturation, mental stress, and values. Multicultural Families Multicultural is an integration of different cultures identities belonging to vary subgroups from diverse countries and or...
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...persons of diverse cultures.” Purnell (2013) explains if the care plan doesn’t include the patient’s own health cultural viewpoints; the plan will more than likely not be followed. Native American people place high importance on their culture and heritage. Interacting with this unique group of people, becoming more knowledgeable, and culturally sensitive to their needs is the basis for this paper. By increasing knowledge and appreciating the Native American culture, nurses may improve communication to better care for their Native American patients. Even though the Native American population in Colorado is a mere 56,000, according to the 2010 United States Census Bureau, it has grown from 1.1 percent to 1.6 percent of...
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...It is undeniable that societies and cultures have structures and roles that are intended to apply to men and women. These gender roles and structures also seem to transcend into the literature of that society and time period respectively. There is a particularly stark contrast in the roles of women between cultures in specific stories. European-centric stories tend to have inverted roles of women in comparison to Native American stories. For example, Theseus, a tale of greek mythology, has strikingly contrastive roles of women when juxtaposed to a book such as Land of the Spotted Eagle that emphasizes women’s roles in Native American stories and culture. These examples, among others highlight differences and make note of similarities. The...
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...Providing Culturally Competent Care to a Native American Patient Introduction When caring for a Native American patient, it is imperative that the nurse provide culturally competent care. In this scenario, there are two main dimensions along which cultural tensions between the patient and the nurse can arise. The first pertains to the actual practices and values of Native American culture, which may be at odds with the practices and values of dominant healthcare institutions. The second is both broader and more subtle: it pertains to the historical relationship of the Native Americans peoples vis-à-vis mainstream U.S. society. After addressing both of these dimensions, suggestions will be made with respect to how a nurse could bridge this gap and provide culturally competent care for the Native American patient. To start with, it is important for the nurse to acknowledge that the Native American perspective on health may simply diverge from the default culture's perspective in some significant ways. For example, BigFoot and Funderburk (2011) have discussed how Native American conceptions of family are different from the contemporary norm, and how this results in the need to adapt nursing interventions in this sphere to the cultural context of Native Americans. Further, these alternative conceptions are often supported by a whole alternate philosophy of life: for example, while Native American culture certainly doesn't advocate passivity "in the face of grave potential...
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...determined sailor, but, nevertheless, a thief. Most Americans in today’s modern society are not unaware of Columbus’ sins, however in President Bill Clinton’s 2000 Columbus Day speech, he states, “While more than 500 years have passed since Christopher Columbus first sailed to these shores, the lessons of his voyage are still with us: brave, determined, open to new ideas and new experiences, in many ways he foreshadowed the character of the American people who honor him today.” President Clinton does not accurately inform, nor remind, Americans of the treacherous acts Christopher Columbus imposed upon the Native American race. Due to the horrors lurking in Columbus’ past, including the slaughtering and enslavement of Native Americans, eventually leading to the natives being placed in reservations, Christopher Columbus began a nation growing on lies and inhumane cruelty. Christopher Columbus was an immoralistic fraud and a man who utilized merciless tactics to achieve a sense of greatness. As the first European to land in the Bahamian...
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...Disease: Native American Culture Before Columbus European exploration, a movement introduced in the 15th century and motivated by commercial interests, religious expansion, and fame. When Europeans explored the New World, they encountered various Native American tribes which led to the exchange of ideas and commodities between the Old and New World, or the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange later resulted in a massive outbreak of disease among Native Americans which severely decreased population. I chose this topic to expose the religious traditions and cultural values that were lost when disease struck. My research began with both the objectives of spanish explorers when first colonizing America and first encounters...
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...1. How do the types of choices that Edelman describes overlap with the forms of adaptation described in the reading's Culture Concepts boxes? Ethic group- Edelman describes on his trip to Poland of a chance encounter with a young man who until his father’s death never knew that he was of Jewish descent. According to Edelman this young man was not alone in his yearning to discover his identity. To have Jewish roots was “in” among Polish liberals in a country where almost no Jews remain. Edelman also found that in his hometown of Altoona, Pennsylvania, the Jewish population is substantially reduced. Friends and acquaintances with whom he had grown up with have married non-Jews and have given up their culture and religion. Jews without Judaism; Jews without culture; Jews without history; Jews at best vaguely aware of their culture, two voyages both pointing to a common image of Judaism and Jewish culture. Two path’s one leading to anti-Semitism without Jews, passing as non-Jews and disappearing and the other leads to Jewish renewal and renaissance, to community and continuity. Assimilation and Integration as forms of Adaptation- Edelman found that in Poland much of the wall graffiti is violently anti-Jewish, blaming communism and all of Poland’s ills on phantom Jews, on the ghosts of the murdered. “I heard a klezmer band playing hauntingly beautiful melodies, yet the klezmer band had no Jewish members.” “Jewish culture, burned alive in Auschwitz and Treblinka.” Edelman notes:...
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