Review of \u3ci\u3eTwo Toms: Lessons from a Shoshone Doctor. \u3c/i\u3eBy Thomas H. Johnson and Helen S. Johnson.

Thomas H. Johnson, one of the co-authors of Two Toms: Lessons from a Shoshone Doctor, was a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign when he first met Tom Wesaw in 1966 at a Sun Dance on the Wind River Reservation. Johnson returned to live with Wesaw during 1969-1970, in order to learn about Shoshone language and culture. Two Toms is based on his field notes from that stay. Tom Wesaw (1886-1973) was a traditional Shoshone doctor, Sun Dance leader, and member of the Native American (Peyote) Church. He had left Wind River Reservation when only fifteen to live with relatives among the Shoshones on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho. Returning to Wyoming, he married Helen Hill and raised a family. When Johnson came to stay with him in 1969, Wesaw\u27s wife had been dead for a few years, and the old man was living by himself. He welcomed Johnson, who cooked for him, drove him around, pumped water, and tended the fire at sweat lodge ceremonies, in exchange for being taught the ways of a traditional Shoshone medicine man. The name of this delightful book comes from the nickname the two of them received on the reservation, since they were always seen together

Education\u27s role in sustainable development: Uganda\u27s Kibale National Park

Kibale National Park (KNP), located in western Uganda, offers a rich diversity of tropical flora and fauna. The Park’s mid-altitude, moist tropical forest supports 11 of Uganda’s 20 non-human primate species, some of which occur in very high densities. The region around KNP is home to seven national parks and numerous protected areas. Located within KNP is the Makerere University Biological Field Station (MUBFS), with an extensive 25-year research history and a mandate to assist KNP in protecting the ecosystems of the region through management-relevant research. While KNP and MUBFS have received much visibility within Uganda, East Africa and the tropics as an important biological resource, both institutions face formidable obstacles in meeting their respective conservation mandates. For KNP, severe human population pressures around the Park, coupled with chronic shortages of capital, personnel, and other resources, make maintaining current Park resources problematic, let alone ensuring their long-term viability and protection. For MUBFS, declining donor support make it increasingly difficult to fund research programs and operations. Together, these challenges highlight the need for revenue-generating activities that can bestow direct and tangible benefits to KNP, MUBFS, and surrounding communities. This paper examines the contributions that study abroad programs can make to resource protection efforts in the KNP region. Direct benefits include income generated through course fees, meals, housing accommodations, miscellaneous purchases, and staff and instructor fees. Indirect benefits include the increased awareness of the region’s economic, scientific and ecological value by study abroad participants, local communities, institutions, and policy makers. Since the challenges facing KNP and MUBFS are common throughout Africa and much of the developing world, the issues and opportunities discussed here have widespread application

Brown and black in white: The social adjustment and academic performance of Chicano and black students in a predominately white university

This article explores the academic and social experiences of Chicago and black students at UCLA. The analysis proceeds by examining differences in social backgrounds, high school and college experiences, and explores the relationship between these factors and college adjustment and achievement (GPA). Drawing upon recent theory on class reproduction and schooling we show particular concern with the role of social class in explaining differential outcomes. The findings indicate that blacks are more likely than Chicanos to feel alienated and perform poorly, and that social class makes no difference in these outcomes for blacks. However, middle class Chicanos perform better and are better adjusted than working class Chicanos. We discuss our findings in the light of theories of class reproduction, cultural capital, and racial signaling, suggesting that theories of reproduction must acknowledge the role of race in unequal school outcomes.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43870/1/11256_2005_Article_BF01141631.pd

Review of \u3ci\u3eTwo Toms: Lessons from a Shoshone Doctor. \u3c/i\u3eBy Thomas H. Johnson and Helen S. Johnson.

Thomas H. Johnson, one of the co-authors of Two Toms: Lessons from a Shoshone Doctor, was a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign when he first met Tom Wesaw in 1966 at a Sun Dance on the Wind River Reservation. Johnson returned to live with Wesaw during 1969-1970, in order to learn about Shoshone language and culture. Two Toms is based on his field notes from that stay. Tom Wesaw (1886-1973) was a traditional Shoshone doctor, Sun Dance leader, and member of the Native American (Peyote) Church. He had left Wind River Reservation when only fifteen to live with relatives among the Shoshones on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho. Returning to Wyoming, he married Helen Hill and raised a family. When Johnson came to stay with him in 1969, Wesaw\u27s wife had been dead for a few years, and the old man was living by himself. He welcomed Johnson, who cooked for him, drove him around, pumped water, and tended the fire at sweat lodge ceremonies, in exchange for being taught the ways of a traditional Shoshone medicine man. The name of this delightful book comes from the nickname the two of them received on the reservation, since they were always seen together

Niimina Ahubiya: Western Mono Song Genres

Although Native American communities may lose their ancestral language or other aspects of their traditional culture, music seems to be more resistant to the continual onslaught of the dominant Euro-American culture. Even today, traditional music remains a vital part of Native American communities throughout the United States. In this article I examine one aspect of the musical traditions of the Western Mono, specifically the different types of songs, and their functions within Western Mono society. First, I give a short synopsis of aboriginal Mono culture and society. Next, I discuss what little data have been published dealing with Mono music in the ethnographic literature. And finally, I present the data that I have collected

Ceremony as Performance: The Western Mono Cry-Dance

In this paper I attempt to show how a particular sociolinguistic method applied to ethnographic research can be valuable to the fieldworker and scholar alike. It aids the fieldworker to see the interpersonal systematics at work within a culture. It aids the scholar by giving ethnography a single, uniform method of analysis that can easily be used in cross-cultural comparisons. It also aids both to see the functions of ceremony not only from the outsider's perspective, but also from the insider's point of view. In the sections that follow, I will introduce the reader to the Western Mono, review other descriptions of the ceremony among both the Mono and surrounding tribes, describe the contemporary version of the ceremony which I experienced, and then apply a sociolinguistic method to the event for both description and analysis

Descriptive and Inferential Statistics An Introduction

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Animal Minds and Human Language

In this senior independent study, I seek to answer the question: How do humans judge animal intelligence? I examine the notion of language and how it is applied to understanding the minds of other animals, in particular dogs. I consider what philosophers historically have thought about in terms of the mental capacity of animals. Aristotle, René Descartes, and David Hume each argue different views of how humans should understand the animal mind. In addition, I go over the scientific counter parts of these philosophical accounts through Charles Darwin, C. Lloyd Morgan, B.F. Skinner, and Nikko Tinbergen, prominent animal behavior figures in the scientific community. This background information about the previous views on examining animal mental states will help the reader understand why I am taking the direction I am. I discus what language is pulling from Noam Chomsky, Walker Percy, and Ludwig Wittgenstein to form a base for understanding language, which I use in order to understand that animals do not use language in the same capacity as humans. From here I will explain my interpretation of an animal’s mental state. This will ultimately lead to the conclusion that to understand the mental state of other animals, we have to use our own language. This enables us to compare how we might think why a dog may have similar mental capacity as our own