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Wednesday 16 April 2008

Week 12 Day 23

 

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Features of the Day

 

Paul Buffalo collecting medicine


Paul Buffalo meditating medicine

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Duluth News Tribune masthead.

16 April 2008

UMD medical student shares the limelight

A UMD medical student honored for his scholarship thanks those who contributed to his success, taking a page from his American Indian heritage.

Chuck Branch and UMD Medical School ceremony, 16 April 2008.

Chuck Branch (left) gives a beaded pen and lanyard to Dr. Deborah Powell, dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School, during a traditional American Indian feast and giveaway Tuesday at the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth campus. The event was to recognize those who helped him during his two years at the school. He will finish at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus. The pen has turtles in its design, representing his clan. CLINT AUSTIN / NEWS TRIBUNE

Chuck Branch and UMD Medical School ceremony, 16 April 2008.

Chuck Branch holds his son, Marcus, while singing with the Onigamising Singers from Grant Language & Arts Magnet School during a traditional American Indian feast and giveaway Tuesday at the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth campus. It was to recognize those who helped him during his two years there, before he moves to the Twin Cities campus of the medical school. CLINT AUSTIN / DULUTH NEWS TRIBUNE

Chuck Branch and UMD Medical School ceremony, 16 April 2008.

Chuck Branch holds his son, Marcus, while laying out gifts during a traditional American Indian feast and giveaway Tuesday at the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth campus to recognize those who helped him during his two years there. He will finish at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus. CLINT AUSTIN / NEWS TRIBUNE

 

 

Old Business

   

Assignments

  • Read: Ch. 11, "Acculturation," pp. 299-310
 

Notes

  • Monday 14 April 2008: viewed video: Excerpts from Interview with Paul Buffalo
    (18 min., 1971, VC 266B)
    , and listened to audiotape: The Work of Brazilian Healer, Arigo, Dr. Henry Puharich (45 min., 1971, PC 287)
  • Wednesday 16 April 2008: Anishinabe Curing (Slides) to gifts, #36
 
     

 

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Monday 21 April 2008


Week 12 Day 24

nlt 03:18 video: The Amish: People of Preservation
(54 min., Revised 1996 edition, VC 3244)

 



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Feature of the Day

The Amish: People of Preservation.

    • If you want to control the effect of social change on your culture, or at least control the rate of change, what do you need to do?

    • For this film make a list of items that the Amish people try to control in order to control the rate of change in their society

      • Reference: Systematic Data Collection. Susan C. Weller and A. Kimball Romney (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1988)

      • "Qualitative Quantitative Mix"

      • Pertti Pelto Projective Pictures (PPPP), TATs, FIAT . . .

    • Question: Is it true that, "Horses have their own personality anyway?"

    • Hostetler, John A.

    Biography John A. Hostetler -- Federation of East European Family History Societies

  • Good supplimentary film:

    The America of the Amish (54 min., 2006, DVD 1019)

    "Filmed on location in Pennsylvania and Ohio Amish country. Interviews with Amish men and women, some born into the religion and some converts, reveal a range of opinions about the group's tradtional stance on technology, education and worship. Highlights the rapid growth of the Amish population and their changing attitudes toward electricity, cell phones, cars and other modern conveniences. Shows ways that an American subculture adapt to mainstream society."

 

 

Old Business

  • Continue from Wednesday 16 April 2008: Anishinabe Curing (Slides) from gifts, #36
   

Assignments

  • Read: Ch. 11, "Acculturation," pp. 310-323
 

Notes

 
        
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