Articles related to "Challenges Of Blending Indian And American Cultures"
|
600 Curries Cookbook Review
With chef Raghavan Iyer's cookbook 660 Curries in the kitchen, it's possible to cook Indian food restaurant recipes at home, with tremendous success.
|
|
Nair Directs The Namesake
An Indian Family Immigrates To New York. Nair, The Director, Chronicles Two Generations of Their Lives Through Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Cultural Identities.
|
|
Assimilation of American Native Communities
Under the Office of Indian Affairs, the old policy of assimilation was renewed.
|
|
Mixed-Bloods in America
The mixed-blood population in America faces a unique set of challenges. Gaining cultural respect and fighting for basic rights are still high on the agenda.
|
|
India's Global Powerhouses – Rise of a New Power
Economic power is shifting East; to China and India. Review of Kumar's book shows it is not low costs but fundamental factors that drives progress of Indian business.
|
|
Review: The Hindi-Bindi Club by Monica Pradhan
A heart-warming and thoughtful story about the relationship between mothers and daughters and the challenges of blending Indian and American cultures across generations.
|
|
The Westward Movement's Effect on Indians
The history of America is a history of westward migration from the Colonial Era to Manifest Destiny resulting in the populating of the Great Plains after the Civil War.
|
|
Powhatan and the Roanoke Settlers
Powhatan was the chief of a federation of Algonquian Indian tribes who lived in the tidewater region of Virginia. His rule may hold a clue to the disappearance of the wh
|
|
Doorway Thoughts
This article reviews the American Geriatrics Society book, Doorway Thoughts: Cross-Cultural Health Care for Older Adults.
|
|
Indian Weddings - About Hindu Wedding Rituals
Indian weddings are rich in Hindu tradition. Understanding traditional Indian wedding rituals will help you plan your own Hindu inspired wedding.
|
|
Powhatan's Kingdom
Powhatan's first proven contact with whites came in 1607, when Jamestown was established a few miles from Powhatan's capital of Werowocomoco. He attempted to control the
|
|
Native American Spiritual Rituals
Native American Indians use many plants and herbs as spiritual healing remedies or in spiritual celebrations, creating a connection with spirits and the after life.
|
|
Josh Hamilton Stars in Outsourced
Set in Mumbai, India, an American Travels to Train His Successor and Employees in a Call Center. This Film is a Cross Cultural Comedy Drama. Co-Stars Ayesha Dharkar.
|
|
Lakota Healing Song
The "curing song" is just one of many traditional songs used in the healing ritual among the Lakota.
|
|
The First Americans
New archaeology and genetic research suggests Solutreans from France/Spain were among the first human inhabitants of America as "Clovis" people.
|
|
Powhatan's Tribes Teach Settlers
Jamestown lacked men who knew how to farm. Powhatan's people show them how to plant and catch fish in exchange for metal for hatchets, glass beads and copper.
|
|
Join or Die! Live Free or Die!
These words; "Give me liberty of give me death" and "English Liberties" united the ideas of Liberty and Freedom, inspiring the social causes of the American Revolution!
|
|
Native American Education and Employment
Native American populations throughout the United States face special challenges in terms of education and employment opportunities.
|
|
Native American Indian Spirituality
America's indigenous people observed nature with a rich understanding surprisingly compatible with modern science, regarding man's place in the world.
|
|
A New Identity on the American Frontier
A new frontier society was created. Cultural traditions brought from the interior of New Spain were modified by the influence of those on the land.
|
|
Book Review: Jewish American Food Culture
Jonathan Deutsch and Rachel Saks explore the complex universe of American Jewish cuisine in the latest volume of the Food Cultures in America series by Greenwood Press.
|
|
American Indian Museum
The unique outward appearance of the museum gives the visitors the first hint that what they will experience inside will be totally different than other museums.
|
|
American Indian Etiquette and Culture
The Native American Indian culture is alive and colorful, but nuances of it are often unknown by others.
|
|
Review of Reservation Blues
Through lots of humor and even more pop-culture references, Alexie tells the tragic story of band Coyote Springs. Winner of the American Book Award.
|
|
Teaching Native American Culture
Tips and suggestions for teaching the cultural diversity and sophistication of Native American groups in the Social Studies or History classroom.
|
|
Cultural Preservation
In the drive to preserve Native American culture, three pieces of legislation have made great gains.
|
|
Red Power
The birth of Red Power led to the creation of one of the most controversial Native American activist organizations--the American Indian Movement.
|
|
Chaco Culture
A look into the history of the Anasazi people, living in the famous Four Corners region of America; also known as Chaco Culture
|
|
Make Indian-Spiced Holiday Cookie Recipes
Arvinda's Indian Cooking Classes offers a spicy solution to holiday cookie baking stress. Try their Holiday Chai Coconut Ladoos or attend a Toronto-area class.
|
|
The Use of Sunflowers
The sunflower has many uses and traditions associated with it; the sunflower has been used for food, therapeutically, cosmetically and in many ancient traditions.
|
|
Lives of Pre-Contact Native Americans
When the first Europeans arrived to the American continent, there were 10 million indigenous Americans living on the territories to the North of contemporary Mexico.
|
|
Origin of the Black Seminole
In the early 1700s, communities of runaway slaves and a group of Indians who had broken from the Creek Nation converged on a land of promise--Florida.
|
|
Indians of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, for the Delaware Indians, was a haven filled with game, fish, and rich soil to grow their crops. Then the white man came.
|
|
Powhatan and His Wives
Powhatan has many wives but only keeps each wife until she bears him a child. All of his wives are temporary. He also retained a large group of bodyguards.
|
|
Is NAGPRA Emptying Museums?
A recent article argued that Native American tribes are reclaiming a large percentage of museum collections in the US. Is NAGPRA really emptying U.S. museums out?
|
|
Louise Erdrich's "Jacklight"
An explication of Edrich's "Jacklight" offering insight into the theme of mapping in Native American poetry. Discover what happens when two very different cultures meet.
|
|
Top Five Must-See Santa Fe Museums
Santa Fe museums feature Native American culture, Spanish colonial heritage, Georgia O'Keeffe paintings and traditional folk art amid beautiful Southwest architecture.
|
|
How to Make a Potato Chivda Chaat
Chivda is a kind of crispy rice snack that can also be used in Indian salads known as "chaat" instead of similar ingredients such as "bhel" and "sev."
|
|
Foundations of Belief
At the heart of Native American religious philosophy is the belief that everything carries with it an unique spirit.
|
|
The World's Fastest Indian
Anthony Hopkins stars as the speed-obsessed Kiwi New Zealand with his sites set on breaking the world land speed record on his 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle
|
|
Mental Illness Among Minority Groups
The House of Representatives passes a resolution to designate July as Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, focusing attention on the issue
|
|
Texas History Influenced by Myth and Folklore
Some people ask, "Is Texas America?" Myth and lore form the Texas creation story.
|
|
Imposters Sell Fake Seminole Crafts in Florida
The Indian Arts and Craft Act of 1990 is a truth-in-advertising law that regulates the marketing of Indian arts and crafts products in the United States.
|
|
Easy Non-fat Curry Dip
Low-fat dips don't have to be bland and boring. This easy non-fat curry dip, with its blend of exotic spices, is sure to please any appetite.
|
|
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the first Indian boarding/residential school, starts a controversial program of assimilating natives into the white man's culture
|
|
Review of Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
Bestselling author, Sherman Alexie, gives readers another reason to praise him with his book of short stories, Ten Little Indians.
|
|
Indian Summer Fest Summerfest Grounds Milwaukee
Indian Summer Festival on the Summerfest Grounds on the Milwaukee Lakefront. Native American Tribes gather to celebrate their heritage the first weekend in September.
|
|
Book Review: East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
Julia Gregson offers readers a different perspective on the English women who journeyed to India and made it their home in the 1920s and 30s.
|
Latest Articles