The Mourning Road To Thanksgiving By Larry Spotted Crow Mann

The Mourning Road To Thanksgiving by Larry Spotted Crow Mann is the story told from the point of Neempau, a Nipmuc man who is struggling in his adult life while facing demons from his troubled past and accepting the kind of people his family truly was.. He develops this deep hatred all through his life with the American ideal and love for the Thanksgiving holiday and wants to eradicate from the world what he believes are ignorant beliefs and disrespectful to his culture. Neempau is trying to deal with all these pressures. The author Larry Spotted Crow Mann uses the character Neempau as the living representation of what he felt was true Native American culture. He embodied the millions of Native Americans who throughout their lives never let

Race, like many words has a variety of meanings. In anthropology race is defined as a variety of species consisting of a more or less distinct population with anatomical traits that distinguish it clearly from other “races”. Race refers to the physical differences in skin and hair color, facial shape and other inherited characteristics which tend to include genotypic variations. When race is spoken about in terms of the human race it refers to how society at times has difficulty accepting and appreciating other ethnic groups which are not their own. That is because much of the world can be close minded to how others that are not like them live. Anthropologists strive to understand record, appreciate, preserve and explain the human race but in the process, show how though everyone is still the same no matter what race they were born into. Race is something that does not just matter as a genetic concept. It has meaning only because society gives it meaning. In the community that I live in race only matters because people in society constantly engage in racism and racial discrimination. It’s something that we have all witnessed at some point in our lives. My family and I have faced much racism at the hands of society. We are African and being in a society where everyone if not the same there are many ideas pass around about races that are not their own. In our world today you can be

The rise of culture and personality in a sense is what helps create ones identity. The concept of identity is very hard to explain being that the idea itself is so complex. Anthropologists view identity as the reflective self-conception or self-image that we each derive from our family, gender, cultural, ethnic, and individual socialization process. Our identity is what makes each and every one of us unique. Tradition also ties into identity. Traditions are beliefs or customs that are passed down from generation to generation. They tie in with our identity because traditions are taught to us and as we learn them they become a part of who we are; our identity. My family and I identify ourselves as Ghanaians. In our family part of our tradition that I grew up with was the clothing that we wear. The Ghanaian attire is complexly patterned and brightly colored kente cloth. All of our traditional clothing is handwoven and worn by both men and women. We wear these clothes because it is a part of who we are and we take great pride in representing ourselves. Society has their own idea of how they see us. To some we are well respected because we never let go of our roots and we show great pride in where we come from no matter how we are seen or labeled. To others, we are also seen as a threat to American culture as we do not completely conform to their ideas of what it means to be an American. To