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Native American Society
« on: July 19, 2009, 07:18:26 PM »

What do you think of their society, as they were a socialistic society( I know what they are because I am Abenaki)?
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Re: Native American Society
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2009, 02:45:24 AM »

In many ways it was Socialist and very egalitarian but it is also necessary to realize the shortcomings of Tribalism, The parts which gave birth to Nationalism and other such ignorant movements, That is the belief that other peoples are inferior or are not people, this is shared by all known tribal societies in the past.

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"Many tribes refer to themselves with their language's word for "people," while referring to other, neighboring tribes with various epithets. For example, the term "Inuit" translates as "people," but they were known to the Ojibwe by a name translating roughly as "eaters of raw meat."[citation needed] This fact is often cited as evidence that tribal peoples saw only the members of their own tribe as "people," and denigrated all others as something less. In fact, this is a tenuous conclusion to draw from the evidence. Many languages refined their identification as "the true people," or "the real people," dehumanizing the other people or simply considering them inferior. In this, it is merely evidence of ethnocentrism, a universal cultural characteristic found in all societies."
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