The role of water in the emergence of the pre-Columbian Native American City Cahokia

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 489-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Baires
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American City

A Microhistory of Human and Gastropod Bodies and Souls During Cahokia's Emergence

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Baires
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American City ◽  
Mollusc Shell ◽  
Mortuary Practice ◽  
Living World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Human Burials

This article examines the role of mortuary practice in the emergence (c. ad 1050–1100) of Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian Native American city north of Mexico. The parallel partitioning of human and gastropod bodies in ridge-top mortuary mounds is examined and I argue that the presence of gastropods buried alongside human bodies served to connect the living world of humans with the watery underworld of the dead. From a microhistorical perspective, this paper focuses on the processing and deposition of bodies and their subsequent interment in ridge-top burials to parse the potential relationships between such mortuary practice and Cahokia's emergence as a complex polity. The paper presents data on the association of shell materials with human bodies from six previously excavated ridge-tops for comparison with new data on shell materials and human burials from Wilson Mound, a small ridge-top located on the western edge of Cahokia. Together, these data suggest the emergence of Cahokia was embedded in newly articulated relationships with persons enacted through the process of disarticulating the dead for burial mediated with mollusc shell.

The Music Therapist: Creative Arts Therapist and Contemporary Shaman

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Psychotherapy Practice ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Contemporary Psychotherapy ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Healing Practices

While much of contemporary psychotherapy practice often focuses primarily on verbal exchange between therapists and clients, it is important to recognize that verbal expression is just one mode of expression, and not necessarily the deepest or most profound. Many clients in therapy may be more comfortable in expressing themselves in other ways through the modes of music, art, dance and psychodrama. The sources of the arts in healing extend back for many thousands of years and their modern expression through the creative arts therapies are now widely utilized in the mainstream of modern psychotherapy. Traditional healing practices are still widely practiced in many indigenous cultures around the world today and an appreciation of these practices can deeply enrich our understanding of the essential role of the arts in human expression. The aim of this paper is to consider the roots of the arts therapies and really all of psychotherapy, going as far back as pre-historic evidence, followed by an overview of living indigenous healing practices in such settings as Bushman culture in Namibia, Native American Indian culture, as well as in Kenya, Bali, Malaysia, Mongolia and more.

The Quaker, the Primitivist, and the Progressive: Three Cultural Brokers in New Mexico's Quest for Multicultural Harmony

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne M. Getz
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Cultural Brokers ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Good Will

New Mexicans pride themselves on their ability to bridge multicultural divides. Part of what we are urged to understand as “enchanting” about the Land of Enchantment is its diverse cultural background. Native American, Hispano, and Anglo have existed side by side, at times with remarkable harmony and good will, for nearly two centuries. The Land of Enchantment is not altogether a fantasy. Many New Mexicans have shown an uncanny ability to bridge ethnic divides and find common ground in the interstices between cultures. The soil of New Mexico seems to be fertile ground indeed for producing cultural brokers. Margaret Connell Szasz admits that living in New Mexico makes her particularly attuned to the role of the cultural broker.

Latin American Cities: Aspects of Function and Structure

1962 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Morse
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
New World ◽  
American City ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City

This essay will advance two interrelated hypotheses about the Latin American city. The first of them has to do with the role of the city in the settlement of the New World. The second suggests certain characteristics of the modern Latin American metropolis.

“Borderland” as a way of preserving and asserting identity. The historical experience of the Native American cultures of Latin America in a universal context

2021 ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Yakov Shemyakin
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Native American ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linguistic Reality

The article substantiates the thesis that modern Native American cultures of Latin America reveal all the main features of "borderland" as a special state of the socio-cultural system (the dominant of diversity while preserving the unity sui generis, embodied in the very process of interaction of heterogeneous traditions, structuring linguistic reality in accordance with this dominant, the predominance of localism in the framework of the relationship between the universal and local dimensions of the life of Latin American societies, the key role of archaism in the system of interaction with the heritage of the 1st "axial time», first of all, with Christianity, and with the realities of the "second axial time" - the era of modernization. The author concludes that modern Indian cultures are isomorphic in their structure to the "borderline" Latin American civilization, considered as a "coalition of cultures" (K. Levi-Strauss), which differ significantly from each other, but are united at the deepest level by an extremely contradictory relationship of its participants.

The role of Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander‐Serving Institutions in reframing leadership education

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (171) ◽  
pp. 101-111
Author(s):  
Demeturie Toso‐Lafaele Gogue ◽  
Rikka J. Venturanza ◽  
Aida Cuenza‐Uvas ◽  
Mike Hoa Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Pacific Islander ◽  
Leadership Education

The Role of Climate in Early Spanish–Native American Interactions in the US Southwest

2017 ◽  
pp. 81-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla R. Van West ◽  
Thomas C. Windes ◽  
Frances Levine ◽  
Henri D. Grissino-Mayer ◽  
Matthew W. Salzer
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Us Southwest ◽  
The Us

Directions in Research: Intergenerational Transmission of Heritage Languages

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-134
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Baltimore County ◽  
Heritage Languages ◽  
Saturday School ◽  
Role Of Parents

A collection of 10 papers preceded by an introduction and a section on Clusters of Research Areas by Joseph LoBianco (Language Australia), pp. 93-96). Papers as follows: #1: Learning from History, by Terence Wiley, Arizona State University (pp. 96-99); #2: External Pressures on Families, by Lily Wong Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley (pp. 99-102); #3: The Role of Schools in Language Maintenance and Shift, by Reynaldo Macias, University of California, Los Angeles (pp. 102-104); #4: Saturday-School Participation, Ethnic Identity and Japanese Language Development by Kiyomi Chinen and G. Richard Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University (pp. 104-106); #5: The Role of Parents’ Knowledge about Bilingualism in the Transmission of Heritage Languages, by Sarah J. Shin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (pp. 107-109); #6: Native American Heritage Languages, by Christine P. Sims, University of New Mexico (pp. 109-113); #7: Language Ideologies, by Norma González, University of Utah (pp. 113-115); #8: Language Ideologies and the Teaching of Heritage Languages, by Guadalupe Valdés, Stanford University (pp. 116-118); #9: Research Priorities: Heritage Languages in Policy Texts, by Joseph Lo Bianco, Language Australia (pp. 118-121); #10: Biliteracy and Heritage Languages, by Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania (pp. 121-124)

Boarding School Poetry, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and the Demands of Americanization Poetics and Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-143
Author(s):  
Cristina Stanciu
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
Original Poetry ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
Carlisle Indian Industrial School ◽  
Industrial School

This chapter focuses on the under-examined corpus of Carlisle poetry, viewing it as a vital archive for theorizing the role of the American Indian intellectual tradition in negotiating Americanization discourses at the turn of the twentieth century. Materials published in newspapers and magazines at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania (1879–1918) include “Carlisle poetry,” which encompasses original poetry by Native American students, reprints of poems by Indian authors, poems by school personnel, and poems by well-known American authors. This poetry, along with the letters and articles published in Carlisle newspapers and magazines, is complicit with the ideological underpinnings of the institution’s ambitious goals of “making” Indian students into Americans, even as elements of this literature critique the Americanization that Carlisle boarding school demanded of its students.

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