Contrasting Values I know, traditional native americans are most often not assertive, Indiansfashioned their way of life by living in harmony with nature. http://literacynet.org/lp/namericans/values.html
Extractions: (Dominant Society Values) GROUP (take care of the PEOPLE I SELF ( take care of #1 TODAY is a Good Day! MUST PREPARE FOR TOMORROW A RIGHT time/ RIGHT place BECOME AWARE TIME (use EVERY minute) AGE (knowledge-wisdom) OF THESE YOUTH (rich, young, beautiful COOPERATE CONFLICTING COMPETE! Be PATIENT VALUES OR I CAN Learn to be AGGRESSIVE LISTEN (and you'll learn) BECOME SPEAK UP GIVE and share CONFUSED TAKE and save Live in HARMONY (with all things) ANGRY CONQUER Nature Great MYSTERY /intuitive FRUSTRATED PHYSICALLY (Ego) SELF attention A SPIRITUAL Life SPIRITUALLY Religion (a PART of life) As a teacher of Native American students, I would allow time to get to know the students in my class. This may be done in class and through one-to-one contact in the classroom. Once a rapport is established with the group then I would know what area to address with input from my group. Here I would find out from students the traditional ways of talking about a certain area. I know, traditional Native Americans are most often not assertive, but that has changed. If I feel a need then I would start with that area. (Marilou Schultz)
Extractions: Native Americans have been cast in the role of environmental messiahs almost as often as they have been suppressed. But the original peoples of North America do have much to offer the relative newcomers, for many still live spiritually attuned to nature in their daily practices and teachings. At the same time, they meet what is sometimes called the "dominant culture" on its own terms: in combining sweat lodges with computers, they come closest to embodying a truly postmodern way of life. Jewell Praying Wolf James is Coordinator for the Lummi Treaty Protection Task Force and Chairman of the Board of the Kluckhohn Research Center. Ken Cooper is Cultural Consultant for Fish, Timber and Wildlife of the Lummi Tribe. Together they bespeak the fire still alive and resurging among Native Americans. Jewell also chairs The Moon's Prayer Foundation, which offers the image of the "Indian in the Moon" as a source of spiritual guidance accessible around the world; and he institgated the apology to Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest from area bishops and church leaders for wrongs done to them in the name of Christianity. For more information about these activities contact: Jewell James, Lummi Tribal Council, 2616 Kwina Road, Bellingham, WA 98226.
Extractions: people." NATIVE AMERICANS: WHAT WE WANT OTHERS TO KNOW ABOUT US by Sysop Liz Pollard While I was at the 64th annual American Indian Exposition this past week, I tried to reach as many individuals as I could to get their answers to one specific question to bring back for all of us. The question was this: What one special thing would you, as a Native American, like for the world community at large to know about you and your people? What is the most important thing you can tell them, in your opinion? I talked with children, adults, elders, people from all roles in life. Some were very acculturated and assimilated to modern American society, while others were very traditional in outlook. Some of the adults had college educations, some had not even gone to school. Most of the answers were very similar, regardless of the person's station in life, and they boiled down to the areas I will discuss below. FAMILY To Native Americans of any tribe, family is very important, not just the nuclear family most of us immediately think of, father, mother, and children, but all of one's relatives. This family is known to sociologists, ethnologists, and other scholars as the extended family, and among Native Americans it is very closely knit. Everything revolves around the extended family unit, and cousins are as close as brothers and sisters. For this reason, adoption is almost unheard of in Indian tribes. When a child is orphaned, someone in the extended family raises it as their own. Perhaps this stems from the fact that in aboriginal times, survival of the tribe as a group was all-important, and the family was the basic unit of the tribe. Perhaps it arises from other factors, but whatever the answer to this, it is a strong influence on their lives. RELIGION Native Americans are very religious people, whether they practice their own original religions or have been converted to Christianity or some other faith. It is very important to them to acknowledge and revere a higher power and follow its guidance. What that power is called is less important, but most tribes originally worshipped a single "god" and still do so. Although the practice of their religions varies widely, that one thread is present for all tribes, an all-powerful creator, a power that oversees all our actions, is our guardian and our guide. NATURE Nature was perhaps the single most important factor in the aboriginal life of Native Americans. They depended on the natural universe for every item they ate, wore, or used. Much of their religion is centered on the effort to explain the seemingly inexplicable in the natural universe. They lived in harmony with nature whenever possible, preserving its beauty and its wholeness. They killed no more than they had to have to survive, and in many tribes they even begged an animal's forgiveness before they killed it. Most felt that Earth was their mother, and they treated her with gentleness and still do. The earth nourished them, the air gave them breath, and the sun and rain encouraged life, so all four were sacred. The Creator provided all of nature for the good of all people, and it belonged to all of us in common. Most of them are still conservationists and environmentalists. Their present attitude towards nature is perhaps best represented by the bumper sticker displayed in many places: "Walk softly on Mother Earth." PRIDE OF ORIGIN This attitude is a little more difficult to explain, but Native Americans are proud to be what they are, even though they acknowledge that in some ways they are very different from other people. At the same time, they are proud of being human like everyone else. They value their heritage and traditions, but they also value what makes them part of the human race. One man said it this way, "We are a peculiar people, distinct to ourselves, but we are people." This man is a Christian, a minister in the Methodist church, yet he finds it important also to be an Indian. He values both parts of his heritage similarly, and he cares deeply about people of all races, creeds, and colors. An elderly woman told me, "We're just like you, but with skin of a different color." Perhaps that says it best. We are all human, and we all have differences we are proud of. The Native Americans are no different in this than we are! CONCLUSION Drawing on what these people told me last week as well as on my own experiences with Native Americans, I have to agree with everything I heard. Indians are people, just like we are, and most are fascinating and wonderful to know. They believe deeply in a higher power, in nature, and in family, and they care greatly about others. Their religions, ceremonies, and traditions are different from ours but no less meaningful. I think Elaine Miles put it in a nutshell very nicely in the conference on Tuesday, August 8, when she said, "We are a caring, giving, spiritual
Lenni-Lenapi General Historical Attributes of native americans Living within the naturalecosystem encouraged; harmony with nature the norm; only mild alterations of http://www.newhopepa.com/Lenapi/lenapi_default.htm
Extractions: Lenni-Lenapi Early History Some evidence suggests that the predecessors of the Lenapi originated in Siberia and then crossed the Bering Strait to the North American continent. Then over several generations one of the groups migrated to the eastern seaboard, possibly becoming the first human inhabitants of the eastern part of North America some 10,000+ years ago. This would have been at a time when mastodon and mammoth roamed the Delaware Valley. The archeological discovery of an Indian campsite on the Musconetcong river in Warren County NJ (and the carbon dating of some of the artifacts) date back to this very early period. Of the various Indian tribes that came to inhabit the eastern portion of North America the Lenapi appear to have been the least aggressive; desiring to hunt, plant, fish and exist in peace with their neighbors. The Five Nations of the Iroquois and Minquas being some of their more aggressive neighbors, who at various times tried to subjugate the Lenapi. Dutch settlers in the early 1600's were the first Europeans to barter with the Lenape Indians (and other tribes in the PA,/NJ/Delaware areas); followed by the Swedes, English and French. The early settlers made numerous land purchases from the Indians, who were under the impression that the presents they received were tokens of appreciation for allowing the use of their land, never thinking they were ceding their full ownership rights. Along with the European traders, settlers and governments came their Christian missionaries, who preached the virtures of their religion while the land was changing hands.
Native Americans In Museums: Lost In Translation? The handling of native americans and their cultural artifacts by museums has added the stereotypical notion of the Indian in harmony with nature. http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1904/Klein/Klein.html
Extractions: Photo by Julia Klein. Now, with its $110 million centerpiece building due to open on the National Mall in 2003, the museum is wrestling quietly with a new set of challenges, stemming from the sensitivity of its mission and the potential cultural divide between Indian folkways and tourist expectations. But 1999 was a good year for the museum. It began operations at the Cultural Resources Center, where the bulk of the magnificent collection amassed by Heye (1874-1957) is being transferred from storage in New York. It also hosted an emotional groundbreaking at the Mall, complete with Native American blessings. Photo by Julia Klein. Particular sore points have included the consignment of Indians to natural history museums; the related notion that Indian cultures are relics of a vanished past; the grouping of diverse cultures under a single rubric, as well as other inaccurate representations; and the insensitive display of (often looted) human remains, funerary objects and artifacts designed for ceremonial use.
Native Americans This series documents the success of two tribes of native americans, a wayof life in harmony with nature and the Great Spirit or else face destruction. http://www.videolearning.com/S1414.HTM
Extractions: Explore the fascinating ruins of a mysterious prehistoric Indian people while visiting five national monuments: Montezuma Castle, Wupatki, Tuzigoot, Walnut Canyon and Sunset Crater. Learn how the ancient Indian civilizations of the Sinagua and Anasazi developed, survived and expired in this hostile environment. The mysteriously rich heritage of an ancient civilization. Pottery making the old way is demonstrated in Hano village on First Mesa. Rare views over Hopi mesas, villages and Hopi ruins. This program covers the Anasazi, Spaniards, Nampeyo civilizations and pottery designs. Included is a segment on the evolution of Hopi pottery.
Activist Organizations We are preparing a better future for native americans, and your understanding ispart We believe that society can exist in harmony with nature; indeed, http://www.sacredland.org/resources/activists.html
Extractions: The Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA) AAIA promotes the welfare and cultural survival of American Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos in the U.S. by protecting the Constitutional rights of these groups, and focusing on health issues, economic development and education. AAIA has worked on sacred site protection since the 1920s and is currently involved in struggles at Devils Tower and the Medicine Wheel in Wyoming, and Bear Butte in South Dakota. Honor the Earth The Honor the Earth Campaign creates awareness and support for Indigenous environmental issues and leverages needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Indigenous communities. The campaign will develop these resources by utilizing music, the arts, media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth. Seventh Generation Fund An outspoken advocate for Native autonomy and self-reliance, the Seventh Generation Fund seeks to reaffirm the ability of Native peoples to have confidence in our own abilities to revitalize our communities and acquire those skills necessary to fulfill those ideals. This is accomplished through facilitating the self-help efforts of Native peoples to rebuild our communities and assure our self-determinative futures through an integrated program of small grants, technical assistance, leadership training, and administrative support. Indigenous Environmental Network The Indigenous Environmental Network is an alliance of grassroots indigenous peoples whose mission is to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening maintaining and respecting the traditional teachings and the natural laws.
Extractions: Native American Military Heroes Many Native Americans have played a vital role in making America what it is today. For this reason, our country honors Native Americans during the month of November. A presidential proclamation has set aside November as National American Indian Heritage Month every year since 1994. Long before the first European settlers arrived, American Indians from numerous tribes throughout what is now known as North America inhabited the land. Free to practice their cultures and traditions, Native Americans lived off of the land and in harmony with nature. At that time, wildlife and enemy tribes posed the greatest dangers. However, the arrival of the first settlers brought a new danger. As European settlements grew into colonies and colonies to states, many American Indians were forced west by Americans, and eventually onto reservations. Often they were stripped of their land, their culture, and individual ways of life as their new neighbors forbade them to practice their own form of government and religion. Since European settlement, American Indians have distinguished themselves in numerous ways one of which is military service. In the 20th century, five
Studying Indigenous Religions The Europeans took a lot of this away by outlawing native americans to people will turn to native americans to teach them to live in harmony with nature http://www.uwec.edu/greider/Indigenous/Versluis/01intro.htm
Extractions: Overview of Key Elements 1 INTRODUCTION The study of Indigenous religions considers thousands of various globally scattered traditional religions of native cultures, descendants of original inhabitants or First Peoples in particular bioregions, and the Sacred Ways they developed to express their experience of their Life World. Exploring these religions spans the history of humanity and breadth of the planet, from the earliest cave painters to contemporary people struggling to maintain their sacred ways and survive in the modern world. Indigenous religions are deeply connected to the environment, the ecological bioregion, through the mythical cosmology or sacred stories of a place that are assigned by people to their terrain. [See also Brett Greider's overview lecture and some definitions Before European contact, there was a great diversity of Native American traditions, cultures, languages, and religious beliefs. The Europeans took a lot of this away by outlawing Native Americans to practice certain religions, for example, which eventually lead to much of this diversity to be lost. However, the Native Americans have survived the EuropeansÂ’ attempt of civilization, or assimilation, and have preserved a great deal of their culture, heritage, and religion over time.
Platform Free the prisoners of the FBI/BIA war against native americans, Our goal isa society that is in harmony with nature as it is in harmony with its own http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/Platform.htm
Extractions: (Adopted March 23, 2003.) The Peace and Freedom Party , founded in 1967, is committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism and racial equality. We represent the working class, those without capital in a capitalist society. We organize toward a world where cooperation replaces competition, a world where all people are well fed, clothed and housed; where all women and men have equal status; where all individuals may freely endeavor to fulfill their own talents and desires; a world of freedom and peace where every community retains its cultural integrity and lives with all others in harmony. We offer this summary of our immediate and long-range goals: Socialism We support social ownership and democratic management of industry and natural resources. Under capitalism, the proceeds of labor go to the profits of the wealthy few. With socialism, production is planned to meet human needs. To us, socialism is workers' democracy, including the principle that all officials are elected, recallable at any time, and none receives more than a worker's wage. Socialism can only be brought about when we, the working class, unite and act as a body in our own interests. Our goals cannot be achieved by electoral means alone.We participate in mass organization and direct action in neighborhoods, workplaces, unions and the armed forces everywhere.
Native Americans The American Indian lived life in love with nature. Their wisdom showed ineverything their capacity for harmony with the environment, what they wore, http://www.thewildwest.org/native_american/society/
Extractions: The American Indian lived life in love with nature. Their wisdom showed in everything - their capacity for harmony with the environment, what they wore, what they created, what they ate and how it was prepared, in their home life and importance of family and in their philosophies and beliefs. It would be impossible to tell the whole story of the American Indian, or even one people within the whole. Not only because there is so much to know, but because "historical" information is often incomplete, inaccurate or totally nonexistent. These offerings provide a brief and basic look into a few of literally hundreds of tribes and bands that existed in North America before the arrival of European influence. The brief and basic looks are intended to spark interest and serve as a jumping off point for your pursuit of those peoples, traditions and beliefs which interest you. Indian Tribes: Abenaki The Abenaki, or "dawn land people," are native to the Northeast - Canada, Vermont, Maine and southern Massachusetts - where they enjoyed life in the fields and wild grass along the rivers and coast. Nearby forests provided a seemingly endless supply of moose, deer, bear, caribou, small animals and plants, berries and nuts. The waters provided salmon, eel and alewives. In the warm months, trips to the Atlantic coast would yield shellfish, seal, porpoise, lobsters and crabs. Corn was grown to subsidize the diet. Tobacco was farmed as well.
Extractions: MOUNTAINS MADE ALIVE: NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONSHIPS WITH SACRED LAND By Emily Cousins Non-Native Americans need not run their own sweat lodges or play at "being Indian." They should cultivate instead the strains within their own traditions that foster a sense of the sacred earth. Snow crunched under our feet as we rushed to put up the tent in the dark. We thought our spot in the Sweet Grass Hills would be protected from the fickle October weather, but the slender canyon caught the wind coming out of Canada and funneled it right into the Central Montana plains below us. Our camp crouched between the willow frame of an old sweat lodge and a nearby pine tree laden with the colored cloth of tobacco offeringsreminders that Native Americans have prayed in the sacred Sweet Grass Hills for millennia. To get here, we had followed a rancher's pick-up through miles of buffalo and cattle pastures down into a creek bottom where our car got stuck in the rocky bed. Now, as we burrowed into our sleeping bags, we wondered if we would be able to drive out. It was easy to feel small in the face of the dark night, the ceaseless wind, and the long history of prayer, vision quests, and Sun Dances. Safely back at home a few days later, we told a Blackfeet friend where we had camped. "You camped there?" he asked, shocked. "There are strong spirits there. That is a powerful place." His reaction made me think. I had recognized the power of the weather, of the aesthetic beauty, and of the human artifacts, but I had not accessed the power of the place itself. Like so many non-Natives, I had traversed a piece of the American sacred landscape without connecting with the spirits of the land.
Living In Harmony -- Game Rules The Kumeyaay lived in harmony with nature, relying on the things that nature A list of local San Diego native americans contacts is available from the http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/kumeyaay/teacher.htm
Extractions: Living in Harmony: The San Diego Kumeyaay consists of a website and game that tell the story of the San Diego Kumeyaay (koo'-me-eye); Native Americans who once roamed the San Diego region and surrounding lands. The Kumeyaay lived in harmony with nature, relying on the things that nature provided in order to survive including the water, animals and especially plants. The main component of this website is an interactive game created using The Palace , a multiuser graphical chat environment. Students interact with a chat facilitator, and each other, while they explore various aspects of the Kumeyaay lifestyle in an 'edutaining' environment. Possible activities include online events in which students, teachers, and others interested in Native American or California history can participate. California history is the focus of history-social science instruction at grade 4. The history of California is the story of successive waves of immigrants from the 16th century through modern times and of the enduring marks each left on the character of the state. Great emphasis is placed on the regional geography of California. As part of the grade 4 curriculum standards, student are required to analyze the different regions and the interactions of physical characteristics and cultural forces and how the landscape of California has provided different resources for different people at different times, from the earliest to the present.
Team Dispatch - Plains Indians: Alive And Dancing again the Indians lived for thousands of years in perfect harmony with nature . As the scholar D Arcy McNickle writes of all native americans They http://www.ustrek.org/odyssey/semester1/092300/092300teamplains.html
Extractions: It seems like most accounts of Native Americans tell the same story again and again: the Indians lived for thousands of years in perfect harmony with nature. Then the Europeans came, used up the natural resources, drove the Indians off the land, and all but wiped them out with disease and violence , leaving a few survivors on Indian reservations Much of that story is true, but Indians haven't been passive victims, and they're not a just a relic of the past. They've taken active roles in interacting with newcomers to North America, adding their cultures to the American mix. They've fought, sometimes very effectively, to keep control over their land and lives. They've adapted European influences to their own societies. Most important, Native Americans and their cultures are very much alive! The Plains Indians, including tribes such as the Sioux, Crow, Arapaho, Shoshone, Cheyenne, Dakota, Comanche, and Choctaw, lived for many centuries by hunting buffalo, also called bison, from the vast herds that grazed on the Great Plains. They sometimes killed buffalo by driving them into a corral and spearing them or shooting them with arrows. The preferred method, though, was to drive an entire herd off a cliff , so the buffalo fell to their deaths below. A hunt such as this could provide enough food for the whole winter.
Lake Isabella - Kern River Valley - Whiskey Flat Encampment 2005 stepping back in time to watch demonstrations of the days of the wild west asreal native americans and Cowboys lived, in peace and harmony with nature. http://www.kernvalley.com/news/whiskeyflatcamp.htm
Extractions: By Goshen Mounted Police: Stage Coach Service by Goshen Mounted Police/ Butterfield and Overland Stage, or Covered Wagon (Dan Hogan): Scheduled round trip passenger service for public and dignitaries from Kernville Museum to Whiskey Flat Encampment. Service begins from the Museum at 12:00 p.m. Friday and ends at 11:00 Sunday as follows:
Extractions: Yes, you CAN write a book and teach at the same time! This month's cover story by successful author and teacher Marjan Glavac explains how he was able to get published directly from the classroom. COLUMNS Effective Teaching by Harry Wong Promoting Learning by Marv Marshall A Chat with Alfie Kohn Jan Fisher Column ... School Psychologist by Beth Bruno ARTICLES Write A Book and Teach Interview with Joe Pickett Wake up Sleepyhead! When We Care for Children ... Visually Impaired Experience in School REGULAR FEATURES Letters to the Editor Poll: What About Homework? Archives: Alfie Kohn New in the Lesson Bank ... Gazette Back Issues Gazette Home Delivery:
Extractions: I visited with Mr. Gil at his 12-acre nursery and wildlife sanctuary, Blisscapes, last spring to learn more about landscaping in harmony with nature. Located off the beaten path at 751 Potomska Road in South Dartmouth, the setting is marked by woodland, fields and ponds and embellishments that include a barn, stonework and a variety of bird houses and feeders.
Misc/chief Seattle Environment Speech Red Men all lived in harmony with nature ecobabble, and making some But native americans aren t happy with the cooption of their spiritual ethos by http://tafkac.org/misc/chief_seattle_environment_speech.html
Extractions: Just like Elvis and Marilyn, Chief Seattle's notoriety after his death has eclipsed his fame in life. The eco-sermon this nineteenth-century tribal leader gave in 1854, extolling the virtues of living in harmony with nature, has become part of environmental lore. The speech is quoted everywhere. Even mythologist Joseph Campbell and Prince Philip have referred to it. And this past April [1992], it was reverentially recited by leaders at Earth Day gatherings around the world. No doubt about it. Chief Seattle is the ecology movement's patron saint. Except for one niggling detail: It's all bogus. How this myth was perpetrated and how Chief Seattle's original message was distorted is like the kid's game of telephone played out over decades. Environmentalists, of course, see no harm in canonizing Chief Seattle. But Native Americans aren't happy with the cooption of their spiritual ethos by American culture.
Extractions: Internet Address: ann.schauber@oregonstate.edu Introduction "A healthy organization is one in which an obvious effort is made to get people with different backgrounds, skills, and abilities to work together toward the goal or purpose of the organization. While we have not accomplished this at a societal level, it is achievable at an organizational level," says the Dean and Provost of Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, John Bruhn (1996). Very few organizations in the United States have become effective in incorporating culturally diverse backgrounds, skills, and abilities in their organizational culture. In the case of Extension, this author does not know of any state that can claim to have an effective, culturally diverse Extension organization. An effective, culturally diverse organization is one whose culture is inclusive of all of the varying groups and constituencies it intends to serve, that is, in the case of the Extension Service, the people of the state. The organization's values, vision, mission, policies, procedures, and norms constitute a culture that is manifested in multiple perspectives and adaptability to varying values, beliefs, and communication styles. Background People from differing cultural groups in the U.S. have differing perspectives, manifested in their values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. There are many studies that specifically describe these differences. In one significant comparative study of values within five cultures in the Southwest U.S. (Navaho, Zuni, Mexican-American, Texan Homesteaders, and Mormon), Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck (1961) explored value orientations around which they assumed all people seek meaning. One of those orientations is in how people regard nature. Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck found three distinct ways in which people related to the natural environment: harmony with nature, subjugation to nature, and mastery over nature. A people or cultural group may relate to nature in all three ways, but they will vary in their order of preference.
George Catlin And His Indian Gallery of the Enlightenment ideal of natural man, living in harmony with nature . As Catlin spent time among native americans, he became more critical of http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/4aa/4aa577.htm
Extractions: Editor's note: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston provided source material to Resource Library for the following article or essay. If you have questions or comments regarding the source material, please contact the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston directly through either this phone number or web address: George Catlin and His Indian Gallery G eorge Catlin and His Indian Gallery , an exhibition of approximately 120 paintings and objects related to Native American Plains Indians, opens October 10, 2004 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Drawn from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's holdings of art and artifacts painted and collected by Catlin, the exhibition is the first extensive display of the American painter's work in more than a century. The exhibition takes its name from Catlin himself, who assembled his paintings and artifacts into a show he called his Indian Gallery and toured with it in the United States and Europe. When Catlin was painting, he was a controversial, contemporary artist who faced head on one of the most important issues in American history the fate of indigenous Americans during 19th-century westward expansion. George Catlin and His Indian Gallery will be on view in the Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet Street, through January 17, 2005.
