American native inhabitants at that time. In the wake of 1542, the European explorer, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese working for Spain arrived in the coast of California. He came in contact with Indian inhabitants in the southern coast. Juan realized that California was inhabited by primitive Indian ethnic group who lived on subsistence level. They practiced no agriculture and had no domesticated animals except only for dogs. They also had no pottery except wood, leather, woven baskets and netting
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Today the Caribbean is known as a melting pot of cultures and societies, this is mainly due to preexisting historical factors of colonialism that were done in the early 16th and 17th century in the Caribbean. The exploitation of the Caribbean landscape dates back to the Spanish conquistadors around 1600 who mined the islands for gold which they brought back to Spain. The more significant development came when Christopher Columbus wrote back to Spain that the islands were made for sugar development
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valuable for the future generations. 19thcentury and early 20thcentury witnessed this paradigm shift across cultures and literature written there around saw it projected with sincerity and firmness of purpose. In this article I take to find the changes that were taking place and how these were faithfully reflected in the short narrative writings of two master narrators, about their respective cultures and socio-political inheritance-O. Henry and Prem Chand. The short stories selected here are chosen to
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their work or job and so on. Gender inequality has been part and parcel of an accepted male-dominated Indian society throughout history. Women were expected to be bound to the house, while men went out and worked. This division of labor was one of the major reasons why certain evils like 'Sati Pratha', ‘PardahSystem', 'Child Marriage', 'Dowry System', etc. took birth in our society. The traditional Indian mentality assumes that the place of women is mainly concentrated to the household activities like
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Many sports franchises have been criticized lately for the derogatory things they portray about Indians within their mascot. They turn a ‘deaf ear’ to the many concerns of the Native Americans, and look to have no intent in the changing their names or symbols. The Washington Redskins’ owner Dan Snyder, is a person who helps perpetuates the feelings
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1. INTRODUCTION: Tribes are a community indicating primitive traits, distinctive cultures, geographical isolation shyness of contact with the community at large and backwardness. They live in various ecological and geo climatic conditions ranging from plains, hills, inaccessible areas. Indian constitution refers schedule tribes as those communities in accordance with Article 342 of the constitution. Article 342 gives specification of tribes or tribal communities or parts of or groups within tribes
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became a martyr for the Indian Red Power Movement when he was shot and killed by white racists.
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According to INAC, the term for Aboriginal peoples is defined as: “a collective name for the original peoples of North America and their descendants. The Canadian constitution recognizes three groups of Aboriginal people: Indians (commonly referred to as First Nations), Métis and Inuit. These are three distinct peoples with unique histories, languages, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs. More than one million people in Canada identify themselves as an Aboriginal person, according to the 2006
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fight against imperialists. The western imperialists continued to conquer and influence regions which were considered minorities of the world throughout the 19th century. Their influence often impacted the native country’s economy, industrialization, culture, politics, trade and other major social aspects of society. The English East India company trade with China was very profitable for China until the nineteenth century. After the British began to abuse their
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Introduction Pg.5 4. History Pg.7 5. Indian Feminism Pg.9 6. Where feminism goes wrong Pg.14 7. Bibliography Pg.20 ABSTRACT Women have always been an integral part of society. However, more often than not their contribution in the human society has been ignored. This gave rise to the need of empowering women and hence the feminist movement. This research project aims to comprehend and analyze the very essence of Feminism in terms of the 3rd wave and in Indian context. It also analyses the myths
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