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    Sitka Tribe of Alaska The Sitka Tribe of Alaska is one of the recognized Native American groups on the official federal list. Sitka is located on the Baranof Island in the Alexander Archipelago, which is on the southeast region of Alaska. The tribe has enrolled over 4000 members, most of which live in Sitka—the fifth largest city in Alaska (Sitka Tribe, 2011). The Battle of Sitka Though this tribe lives peacefully now, they still had hardships along the way, the largest and most well known conflict

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    Tribes of India

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    Indian Tribes : Among the 68 million citizens of India who are members of tribal groups, the Indian tribal religious concepts, terminologies, and practices are as varied as the hundreds of tribes, but members of these groups have one thing in common: they are under constant pressure from the major organized religions. Some of this pressure is intentional, as outside missionaries work among tribal groups to gain converts. Most of the pressure, however, comes from the process of integration within

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    The Year Of The Flood

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    fights to preserve her culture and property rights of her people; remain praised and idolized in her community for her accomplishments and facilitate yet more miracles such as obligating the government to accept, honor and fulfil the demands of her tribe as well as facilitating the astonishing increment in female literacy in the area; for those reasons, in addition to the fact that Bhagat also mirrors the characteristics of the gardeners and shares a similar background story with Toby, Margret

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    Over a period of ten days, Alan Merriam takes his readers on a journey through the Basongye Bala tribe on their quest to create the perfect drum. Drum creation and music in general is an important element to the Basongye culture, this can be “witnessed” through this study by how detailed and extensive the process for drum making actually is, the Basongye people ensure every groove and nook is in its correct place. Additionally, the author reminds his readers that even though the purpose of this article

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    Who Is A Child? Essay

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    fail to cover all children, it does not provide definite timelines for many provisions. Definition of Tribes: D.N Majumdar defines tribe as a social group with territorial affiliation, endogamous with no specialization of functions ruled by tribal officers hereditary or otherwise, united in language or dialect recognizing social distance with other tribes or castes. According to Ralph Linton tribe is a group of bands occupying a contiguous territory or territories and having a feeling of unity deriving

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    where some social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs (Johan Galtung, 1969) o Land dispute o Tribal conflict  Tribalism (strong loyalty towards one’s own, and prejudice against other tribes) and favouritism (towards tribal members) deeply entrenched in the political scene  source of unhappiness and unequal opportunities o Weak national constitution; a constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according

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    National integration, as Sklar, (1967) points out, has been added to the top of any state's agenda, especially if it is a developing one. Rosberg (1970) defines this concept as 'a broad subsuming process, whose two major dimensions are (i) political integration, which refers to the progressive bridging of the elite-mass gap on the vertical plane in the course of developing an integrated political process and a participant political community, and (2) territorial integration, which refers to the progressive

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    Uncontacted Tribe Essay

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    Uncontacted tribes should be left alone to continue what they have been doing for the past thousands of years. The tribes have flourished for a very long time, except for when they come in contact with the outside world. They are being introduced to new dangers that have wiped out entire tribes at once. The tribes face these dangers: the diseases brought to them by the people of the outside world, the government and loggers wanting to drive through their lands and destroy their home, and the fears

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    Hello, friends today I am going to tell you about my life’s most dangerous, horrible, adventurous and emotional story. This story related to my trip to Madrid “yes it is the capital of Span” by ship. So first I am told you that how a plan of the trip was made. It was the story of 2 years ago. When I was in 6th. I and my family (father, mother, and brother) go to a restaurant for celebrating New Year. Where we were the 100th family to enter in the restaurant so because of this we won the lucky draw

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    Tribe, described by the dictionary as, “Any aggregate of people united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, community of customs and traditions”, can cause many people to often tumble into disagreement with one another over the meaning of this word. Arguments have lead people to believe that the word tribe refers to a group of people that are primitive and savage, but Archeologists have cleaned up the meaning. Archaeologists define the word tribe as, “A political group that comprises several

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