The religion practiced by Maisin people that John Barker went to Papua New Guinea to study.

An economic and political worldview, based on the economic principles of Adam Smith, that sees the free market as the main mechanism for ensuring economic growth, with a severely restricted role for government

Coast Salish people have been ocean and river fishermen for thousands of years. Their salmon runs were abundant and what they did not consume they used for trade.

A system of power based on wealth, income, and status that creates an unequal distribution of a society’s resources

A flawed system of classification, with no biological basis, that uses superficial characteristics to divide humans into groups.

Includes beliefs, myths, rituals and symbols.

Growth of central administration that influences daily lives of citizens
Professional/standing military
judiciary, police
Identity as citizen is acquired through performance of allegiance
Shared symbols and mental maps of reality

Thousands of years ago, the Native peoples of the lower Great Lakes grew maize, beans and squash in small plots they dug by hand and rotated periodically so the land had a chance to fallow and restore its fertility.

highly mobile, learn through example and oral tradition, small groups, everyone matters, limited number of possessions

99.9%

Dr. Sanchez is working in an indigenous community where she observes community members ringing bells, singing and dancing in a circle around a sick person who sits in a chair.

Court cases, social movements and NGOs

Long distance trade routes, colonialism and the enslavement of humans.

Cahokia is an ancient Native American in East St. Louis, IL and a UNESCO World Heritage site that everyone should visit, especially since you all live so close [pause for Dr. Murray's dramatic eyeroll].
Archaeologists have found significant evidence that supports these were farming people. The mounds where leaders lived still exist.

The author and historian Isabel Wilkerson calls these ritualistic reminders of whose lives were valued and whose were not.

John and George are getting married today. As they stand before the minister and in front of their loved ones, they exchange rings and vows. Then the minister pronounces they are now spouses.

The ability of a dominant group to create consent and agreement within a population without the use or threat of force.

States that dominate the world economic system foster exploitive relationships with less developed and less powerful nations.

A Japanese fisherman catches a tuna. Later that day, he sells his catch at a fish market in Tokyo. A Sushi chef in Brooklyn uses the Internet to buy a tuna, which is shipped to her on a cargo jet.

The assignment of children of racially mixed unions to the subordinate group.

Irene is an elder in the Klallam Nation. Each morning, she cleans her hairbrush and burns the hair she removes in the fire so no one can take her hair and work a spell against her.

Lakota Indians in SD must share their sacred places with non-natives who sometimes desecrate them.

Last week General Motors announced it was closing US factories, laying off American workers and moving production of new more competitive automobiles to Mexico, where labor costs are cheaper.

Labor, professional, entrepreneurial and refugees

The belief that whites are biologically different from and superior to people of other races.