Browsing by Subject "Traditional"

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    An analysis of traditional Ojibwe civil chief leadership
    (2013-05) Flocken, Henry
    Little is known about traditional Ojibwe civil chief leadership. This critical ethnography is an analysis of traditional Ojibwe civil chief leadership. Hereditary chiefs are interviewed. Chief leadership lies nested in the Anishinaabe Constitution. It is clan-based and value-based. It includes all of creation. Leadership is emergent and symbolic. Chiefs symbolized and are spokespersons for the will of the people. They were selected based on their virtues. The real power is in the people, in clans in council. Hunting groups had spokesmen in clans. Chiefs were chosen from the clan headmen in council. Larger area councils selected a chief from the chief-council. This system is spiritual, holistic, consensual, and egalitarian. It empowers the people. Colonial oppression has transformed what was a bottom-up structure to a Western top-down structure often filled with nepotism, favoritism, and corrupt and coercive leadership. Coupled with historic trauma, this engenders self-oppression and social dysfunction. Many activists call for a return to traditional Anishinaabe government, but little is known about what that is. The purpose of this critical ethnography is to know traditional Ojibwe civil chief leadership, add to leadership knowledge, and use that knowledge in Anishinaabe leadership models for tomorrow.
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    Reconstructing Lakota ritual in the landscape: the identification and typing system for traditional cultural property sites.
    (2009-11) LeBeau II, Sebastian C. (Bronco)
    This Lakota methodology and taxonomy for identifying traditional cultural property sites was developed from understanding how the Lakota view the land and how a place produces a tangible social meaning that directs how the Lakota use it in order to perform a culturally significant traditional activity. It identifies sites by making an association between a specific kind of place with a specific kind of activity. The taxonomy uses Lakota designators to identify site types in order to reveal their quality of traditional cultural significance and create the appropriate cultural context for relating to them.
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    Transnational marriages between Eastern European-born wives and U.S.-born husbands
    (2013-05) Levchenko, Polina N.
    In the era of globalization and increased mobility of individuals who pursue various goals in their immigration, immigration due to marriage becomes a new norm. As the number of transnational marriages increases, including those from Eastern Europe, it is important for social scientists to focus on these types of marriage circumstances, and for family practitioners to better understand how marriage migrants adjust within their marriage and community. The two research questions of the dissertation include the following: What are the characteristics of spouses in transnational EE-U.S. couples that can distinguish them from spouses in intranational U.S.-U.S. couples? (Research Question 1); Are EE wives in transnational interethnic couples exposed to more areas of potential vulnerabilities compared to EE wives who are in intraethnic EE-EE immigrant couples? (Research Question 2). To answer these questions a 1% representative sample from 2008-2010 American Community Survey was used. Results from Project 1 suggested that preference for a traditional wife, limited opportunities of a local marriage market, and husband's exposure to diversity could be the factors that motivate U.S.-born husbands' to seek spouses transnationally. The findings from Project 2 suggested that certain areas of vulnerability described in previous qualitative studies could be a reality of Eastern European marriage migrants. Limitations and implications for future research were discussed.