The name "Seminole" came about from the tribe's original name of yat'siminoli meaning "free people". That was the name the Seminoles had referred to themselves as because of their refusal to be conquered and converted by the "white man". The Seminole Tribe has long had a unique history with both the land of the Southeastern United States, and with the government of the United States. Their relationship with the land has been drastically altered as the result of three Seminole wars which displaced and relocated the Seminole tribe. As a result of the persecution by President Andrew Jackson, members from a variety of tribes in the Southeast United States began migrating into Spanish Florida to seek refuge.
“Their seizures are thought to be evidence that they have the power to perceive things other people cannot see, as well as facilitating their entry into trances, a prerequisite for their journeys into the realm of the unseen” (Fadiman 21). Known as the quag dab peg ‘when you fall the spirit catches you’ are said to be the “most treasured possessions a person can have” (Fadiman 22). Which was considered to be a calling to become a host of a healing spirit. The author kept up to date through Lee’s tragic experience with translation complications, inequality and culture shock. Little did she know that she would be witnessing a “collision” as one doctor called it.
The Pigeon River was a strong source of travel for the local First Nations, in the sense that the river provided a easy route to hunting areas in order for survival within the aboriginal community. The local First Nations presence were men and women of the Mississauga First Nation Culture which is a sub-tribe of the Anishinaabe speaking First Nations peoples which was predominantly located in southern Ontario. These people had such a large impact on the area where Omemee is located, that the word of Omemee is a Mississauga First Nations word for Pigeon, based on the local river and lake that was a main source of life for these people and the new settlers. (2) Until the 1700s roughly, the Iroquois predominantly ruled the area unopposed, where Omemee is located known as the Kawartha Lakes and Victoria County. By the 1700s the Mississauga and other First Nations tribes were at war with the Iroquois around Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay area, looking for new hunting grounds that existed in the Kawarthas.(4)
I learnt that the history of Native Americans in the United States began centuries ago with settlement of the Americas by Paleo Indians. In Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore Rush it states, “Words can shuttle us around in time and space from New England to Old England, from Rhode Island back over two thousand years to when the Wampanoag and Narragnsett first harvested shellfish in these tid-washed shoals, to a time when language tangibly connected the physical world and the world on the pageant in our
Through the manipulation of figurative language, Maclean forms the idea that there is trouble when offering and receiving help. Most often, when an individual does not know how to help,
Have you ever wondered how many contradictory thoughts that you have in a single day? How often do your actions go against thinking? How many times have you felt your feelings against the principles and beliefs of yourself? Most of the time we do not recognize
Lastly, he demonstrates a strong sense of racial pride by running a secret school for slaves. Ultimately, these characteristics are what drive Douglass to make his daring escape from slavery. Douglass reveals his courageousness when he daringly fights Mr. Covey. He is sent to Mr. Covey, a slave breaker, who treats Douglass poorly. Douglass
Following the creek war in 1814, and Colonel Andrew Jackson’s “Treaty of Fort Jackson”, many Creek Indians fled Alabama and Georgia. They then subsequently joined with the Seminoles in Florida making the majority of the Seminole population of Creek
Authentic Native Americans who inhabited around what is now called Mackinac County, Michigan and northeast of the Great Lakes from around 1200 CE, was originally referred to as Michilimackinac; derived from the Native language called Algonquian, which means "large turtle" to describe the shape of Mackinac Island (1, 280). Given that the Native Tribes left merely a diminutive amount of recorded information, there is an insufficient aggregated evidence that can be comprehended with inevitability concerning their culture and in research that was collected, there seems to be more archeological evidence regarding forceful European cultural influences than actual Native culture, and is the reason why we have even gained written documentation regarding
In the book “Bless Me, Ultima” by Rudolfo Anaya, Antonio wasn’t prepared for all that was placed in front of him, he’s had so many thoughts arising from his mind that it started stripping his own belief apart. We are our own worst enemy. The demons in our head can toy with us and
The Seminole tribe had mixed origins of a branch of Lower Creeks and runaway black slaves from nearby plantations. The Tribes known for farming were moved to land that was considered too arid and nowhere near as fertile as the south. All of the tribes were stripped from their culture, moved to brand new land away from everything that had made their land home. Sacred places gone, villages gone, agriculture gone, and tribe members gone,
Glass objects that demonstrate a series of colors imitating the look of an eye were kept nearby to ward off any spirit that would bring sickness and suffering. To determine if one was taken over by an evil spirit, the village therapist would recite prayer over two glasses of water, one having a drop of olive oil floating in the middle of it. Upon completing the prayer, the therapist would dip a finger in the oil of the one glass and make the sign of a cross over the face of the recipient, making sure the oil came into contact with the forehead, both cheeks, and the chin, symbolizing the image of the cross. The therapist would then re-dip their finger into the oil of the first glass and allow the oil to drop from their finger into the second glass that only had water. If the oil that dropped into the second glass stayed together in a circular pattern, the recipient was free of any evil spirit.
In Therapy of a High Priestess, we are taught that memory is susceptible to change based on false beliefs and how they’re presented to us. The authors show us this as we are taken on a journey with one patient’s diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorder. After several different treatments and doctors, our patient stumbles upon Dr. Braun, who appears to her as an answer to her prayers. As our patient undergoes many years of treatment with Dr. Braun, hypnotherapy is used to bring forth hidden memories from her subconscious. These memories are drawn out using detailed, suggesting questions to bring false realities to our patient’s mind.
The Cherokee, also known as the Tsalagi, are one of the indigenous peoples of the Southeast. The word Cherokee comes from the name Choctaw which means ‘those who live in the mountains’. They inhabited Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee. The Cherokee were a fascinating tribe with intriguing aspects to their culture.
It’s almost as if mysterious forces are pushing and pulling us – sometimes muddling our minds, sometimes captivating our souls” (p. 3). To hopefully understand
