How should I talk about the tribe "Asurini Indians"?
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Assurini Indians\n \n\nArea: Xingu - Para, Brazil (Map)\n\nOther Names: Asurini, Asurinikin, Surini, Awaeté\n\nPopulation (year 2002): 106 - In 1971, the population was approximately 100 individuals and in 1982 was 52. In 1992 the population was 66 Asurini which went up to 72 in 1994. In 1992, the Asurini population 106, composed of 33 women, 18 men and 55 youths and infants.\n\nLanguage Root: Asurini, of the family Tupi-Guarani\n\nFirst Contact: 1971\n\nEconomy: Hunting and Fishing\n\n \n\nThe word Assurini means "Red People". The Assurini have produced an unusual  type of pottery for generations. At present there are only 10 women left in the world that can make this particular pottery. Each design is particular to the individual artist. The designs are the same that are traditionally used for their corporal painting. These designs may also be seen on such things as their bowls made from a gourd type plant. The geometric designs are a visual system of autonomy and are a stylization of their natural environment - Mother Nature. In another aspect, it is a quick glimpse of their Cosmology view. Each design has a specific name and may represent an interpretation of a turtle or jaguar or jabuti. The high gloss on the pots is a natural tree resin (breu do jutai), making this a natural varnish. The red color is an extract of a plant called "urucum". The pots are fired in an open wood fire, then the resin crust is applied. The thinness of the pots show (anthropologically speaking) the exceptional ability of the Assurini as ceramicists. The pots are produced to hold liquid food and are painted for pure artistic personal enjoyment.\n\n\n\n \n\nAdditional Information\n\nThe Assurini Indian Tribe of the Amazon Rainforest - The Raintree Website contains in-depth important information and photographs of the Amazon Rainforest including it's Indian tribes.\n\nAssurini Indians -Raintree\n\nAssurini Indians - from Amazon Co-op (click on member tribes, Assurini)\n\nGeographical. Forums and Feedback. Contact Points/FAQs - Raising awareness about the Amazon The Assurini, a remote tribe from the banks of the Xingu river in Brazil, are trying to raise awareness of the ongoing plight of Brazil's indigenous peoples and rainforest.
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have u ever heard about the lost tribe of israel? make the jewish guy a researcher in archelogy or ethnology or something like that; he will find, through a long journey, that this lost tribe has vanished in indonesia; he will meet a indonesian professor of ilterature, who will be a member of a secret association gathering last members of this lost tribe who practice some dance ritual each time they meet.\nthat's a good summary
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Wow these are some pretty harsh answers. I mean who are we to tell a Native American what offends them. I'm not Native American but I could see how a white guy dressed up in "tribal" clothes, running around and essentially mocking their culture, would be very offensive. I mean would we be allowed to have a team called the Blacks and have a mascot who runs around eating chicken and watermelon or dressed up in slave clothing? How offensive is that? Because it’s the same thing with Native Americans! Not to mention all the suffering their culture has gone threw in the past hundred or so years. I’m a huge Braves fan and I don’t personally see anything wrong with the tomahawk chop but if some Native Americans come forward and say that it is offensive I can definitely sympathize.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
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First do a search for the names of Native American Tribes.  That will give you a good start for all the information you will need.
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Native Americans tribe names are as numerous as sand on the beach. I think you're asking probably, who named them "Indians." I imagine that would be Columbus who thought he ended up in India and assumed those he met were Indians. Various tribe names as we know them today are probably whatever we could repeat as white settlers. Im sure if you ask an Indian their tribe name may be different than what we commonly know them as. Like the Anasazi, if I remember right, the call themselves someting different, Anasazi is a name the whites gave them because thats what they heard their enemies call them.
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To be able to help you, I wouldneed you to add to your question (so I could find it again).  You would ned to list the City and State in which they reside.  THat would be a great start.  One question I would like answered, is this on the Indian Reservation?  \n\nDid he or they apply for  Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA)?  Maybe not, if they were disable prior.  \n\nAnyway, be more specific.  Indian reservation or not?  It matters if you want good answers.\n\nIndians there suffer, however Indians here in the Great Northwest get checks every month becasue of their fortune.  Below is a story of just how bad these Indians have it.\n    Jun 30, 2002\n\n    Wildfire Leaves Apaches With Misery--and Pain\n\n    By TOM GORMAN and STEVE BERRY , LA Times Staff Writers\n\n    WHITERIVER, Ariz. -- Even in good times, this Apache Indian reservation community struggles from paycheck to paycheck. The 60- year-old homes need paint and screens, fences miss slats, hulks of old cars sit abandoned in backyards.\n\n    For hundreds of Apaches, Wednesday's paychecks will be the last for months because their forest has burned. Fire robbed the town of its main livelihood: ponderosa pines to be milled at the tribe's Fort Apache Timber Co.\n\n    "We will go broke by the end of the month," said Cindy Bennett as her husband picked up his last paycheck Wednesday at the mill.\n\n    About 70% of the 330 employees at the tribal company's two mills were laid off Monday as the Rodeo-Chediski fire, the nation's largest, raged through the White Mountains of northeastern Arizona. The remaining employees will be out of work in two weeks.\n\n    The fire's devastation is being felt throughout Navajo County at least 339 homes destroyed, 410,000 acres of forest charred.\n\n    But perhaps nowhere is the economic fallout of the fire felt more immediately than by the White Mountain Apache Tribe.\n\n    In coming days, hundreds of Apaches will run out of money to buy food and medicine. The tribe already has lost millions of dollars in revenue that goes toward a variety of social services and the cost of running its government. There are no trees to cut for the mills, no elk to attract hunters, no tourists to gamble in its casino or fill its motels and restaurants all revenue that feeds the tribe's general coffers.\n\n    The pain is felt in other ways too: Apaches are frequently targeted with icy stares when they shop off the reservation, blamed for the fire because it started on their reservation. There is resentment, too, that the Apaches' suffering is going unnoticed, with so much attention being paid to the plight of the other mountain residents.\n\n    "It was all Show Low this and Show Low that," said Sandra DeClay, referring to the city north of here that was besieged by the blaze.\n\n    "We are suffering," said Dallas Massey Sr., chairman of the tribe, which has 12,000 adult members. "Even before this, we had so many unmet needs, in infrastructure, in housing."\n\n    Indeed, this tribe was already in a world of hurt. Before this week's layoffs, unemployment stood at a staggering 60%. Household income for a full half of the families is below poverty level.\n\n    The reservation's beauty belies the economic hardships of those living here; most of its 1.6 million acres are carpeted in ponderosa pines; streams and lakes attract anglers, elk attract the hunters.\n\n    But in Whiteriver, where tribal government is headquartered in two, one-story brick buildings, there are only a handful of businesses a band, a gas station, a restaurant and small motel among others.\n\n    For the last seven years, Nelson Bennett Jr., 37, made a living sorting and stacking freshly cut lumber. He earned about $800 a month; most of it went for groceries and the $235 car payment for his '93 Chevrolet, chronically in need of repair.\n\n    And then there's the utilities, and medicine, and the occ
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What a very interesting topic you have brought up.....I am an Inupiaq (Eenopak) the best I can do for you in English..Just say it like you see it...I am what you call an Eskimo which we are not.It is an Indian word... Inupiaq is our word for "The Real People" and have been existing in the Northern Most Regions of "Alaska, Siberia, Canada, Greenland. We all can speak the same Language. Our belief of Good and Evil has existed but not in the sense of putting them into human form...It also has to do with nature and everything in it and man having supreme dominion. With survival of the Fittest...Although their were Shamans that practiced the dark arts to control villages to gain wealth. The Good Shamans practiced healing using the natural plants and chants which were passed down and learned by the tribes. This is a dying art but still shared through the family lineages. I still know my family lineage song and passing it down to my relatives. This is our way...The only other thing I can bring up on the subject is we knew of a creator who was good, then there had to be something evil...It is the law of nature. Me I would like to spend my eternity with my tribe when things were serene before the coming of the white race, who seems to bring nothing but distruction in its path. and destroying the ecosystem of our precious homeland...but a calm serene world with our way of life and one with NATURE.....The evil shamans that once ruled certain villages along the northern coast of Alaska at one time controlled over 8,000 Inuit and amassed wealth and showed no respect. They were eventually killed off when the first Europeons brought Alcohol...When they passed out, the people in fear would butcher the shaman and spread his body so that he could not come back to the village using their magic spells they practiced.
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You Can ask but They never Stop!!!  They Thinks its their Duty to Save YOU and Me!!!\nSister:\nI'm Native American I hope my prayers are Welcome!!!\nCome For a Visit!!!\n\nHokahe
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Northern Plains.  Algonquian tribe.  I'm not sure what you're asking.
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Which tribe? Each has there own symbols.
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Many very traditional groups of Indians people won't share their very spiritual practices. The best way to find out about things of that nature is to find an actual Mayan Indian and hope they are willing to share their knowledge.
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Who lives like they used to?  How many grandmothers still go to a creek to fetch the day's water here in America?\n\nSome Native Americans live on reservations and many don't; others have chosen varying degrees of assimilation. \n\nIt's unlikely that any entire group speaks with one voice,  except that they may be unified in wanting non-indigenous people to leave the Americas.  Then perhaps the first of them that arrived across the land bridge will want the second group that arrived that way to leave, too.\n\nProbably there is enough reservation land to accommodate those who would like to live like they used to; they could choose environmental policies to foster herds of bison, and streams full of fish and assume the ways of their ancestors.\n\nI am 1/8 Indian, my children are 1/4.  We only found out after the deaths of our parents on both sides. Obviously, assimilation took place many years ago, and while we might like to experience some of what our ancestors did to live, it would not be forever.
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Here are some search strings that might help you:\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=cherokee+history&btnG=Search\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=history+apache&btnG=Google+Search\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=history+hopi&btnG=Google+Search\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=apache+%22intertribal+warfare%22+&btnG=Search\n\nOne thing you should be aware of, is that the Apache and Cherokee wouldn't have had much interaction until after the forced relocation of tribes east of the Mississippi (ie, the Trail of Tears).  So in other words, they wouldn't have interacted much with each other until Europeans forced them to share territory in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.\n\nThe Hopi and Apache were more likely to have had intertribal warfare prior to the arrival of Europeans, because their territories were closer together.  In fact, you can pretty much guarantee it, since the name of their tribe comes from a Zuni word for "enemy" - and the Zuni and Hopi are related peoples.\n\nIf worse comes to worse, try contacting the tribal councils of these peoples or a professor of Native American history.  They should have more information at their disposal and be more able to help you.
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Each Nation has their own system of beliefs.  You'd do better to research them individually by Nation name (Cherokee, Navajo, etc.) and then look for similarities between all of them.
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"Cherokees, Easley staff discuss new gaming contract"\nhttp://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412469\n\n"The Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians met in January with Gov. Mike Easley's legal adviser to discuss a new gaming agreement with the state as it seeks to add live poker at its casino, officials said."\n\n"Claim made on land planned for tribe"\nhttp://www.times-journal.com/report.lasso?WCD=5123\n\n"On Tuesday, former Fort Payne attorney Charles McGee filed a deed with the DeKalb County Probate Office, claiming one-half ownership of 69 acres of land that Hammonds has said he plans to deed to the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, currently based in Oklahoma."\n\n"Cigarette suit hinges on Cherokees' decision"\nhttp://www.durantdemocrat.com/articles/2006/02/07/news/news8.txt\n\n"The Cherokee Nation has 15 days to join area smoke-shop owners in a lawsuit over Oklahoma's new cigarette-tax rules or the legal challenge may be thrown out, a judge said Monday."
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native americans or east indians