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Ethnic Studies
Indigenous Peoples Assignment
Assignment guide
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Select a Native American group that you are interested in, this will help with research.
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Identify a religious ritual from the selected tribe to be analyzed thinking of the social implications
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​Keep in mind that these rituals can range from individual rites of passages to group ceremonies.
eBooks
*The Art of Ceremony : Voices of Renewal From Indigenous Oregon
*Belief and Worship in Native North America
*The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
*Religion and Culture in Native America
*Cacicas: the indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America 1492-1825
*The Red Road and other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux
*Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands 1720-1877
*Religion, Gender and Kinship in Colonial New France
*An Introduction to Native North America
*Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence : Native Ghosts in North American Culture and History
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Books
*Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux (970.3 B5613b)
*Cycles of conquest : the impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533-1960 (970.49 Sp41c)
*The first Americans : spirit of the land and the people (T 970.0004 Sh557f)
*Atlas of Indian nations (970.00497 T726at)
Native American life: the family, the hunt, pastimes and ceremonies (970.0049 T2129n)
Films on Demand
The Native Americans
Native Americans: Celebrating Traditions
First Face of America
Kanopy
Ohero: Kon Under the Hust
A native American Rite of Passage
The Great Native American Civilizations
*The Bridge Master's Daughter: Cultural Traditions in the Andean Highlands of Peru
World Religions
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Native American Religions Today
If you need any help, please call or email the TVCC library
541.881.5929
library@tvcc.cc
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