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Pestilences of New England\u27s first wars: An investigation of colonial trauma during the Pequot and King Philip\u27s wars
No full textDuring the Contact Period (ca. 1600-1675 A.D.) southern New England Colonists and Native Americans underwent significant cultural changes associated with the introduction of European diseases, and the impacts of the Pequot (1636-1637) and King Philip’s Wars (1675-1677). These Colonial Period traumas impacted traditional modes of healing and with it the health and well-being of Indigenous and Colonial peoples alike. This dissertation focuses on changes in southern New England Colonial and Native American uses of traditional medicines, modes of healing, and dietary systems in the early Colonial Period, and how the breakdown in traditional modes of healing led to adverse health outcomes. Colonial Period trauma includes genocide, land deprivation, alteration of traditional subsistence patterns, slavery, and the loss of cultural identity through forced assimilation. The findings of this study reveal that repercussions of Colonial trauma effected both Colonial and Native populations resulting in adverse health status and disease that claimed more lives than those lost in battle. However in such adversity, advancements in medicine and New England’s first public health initiatives were made
Johannes Speaks: Blog 2016
Get PDFIn 2016 Johannes provided two Blogs on his personal website, Johannes-von-Gumppenberg.com: Johannes Speaks (weekly reflections) and Johannes Writes (longer essays). This Johannes Speaks collection contains his current expressions during the year 2016, with illustrations he selected mostly from his unpublished work.https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/jvg-books/1003/thumbnail.jp
Burnt Offerings: How the City of Angels Engulfed Any and All Involved in the Rodney King Affair and Los Angeles Riots
Get PDFThis thesis analyses the first modern case of police brutality and race relations - the beating of Rodney King and the 1992 Riots that followed. The roots of the gravity of this situation can be found in the the leadership of the city during that time. The thesis tells the story of the juxtaposition of the black, Democratic Mayor of Los Angeles (Tom Bradley) and the white, Republican Los Angeles Police Chief (Daryl Gates). Though both have a very mixed legacy, both men were highly effective in their respective fields and goals. It is their inability to work together and constant strenuous relationship that ends up dooming the political career of both men and eliminating the stability of the city of Los Angeles
Tupac’s Quest for Black Jesus: God as Deadbeat Dad and Afeni, the Migdala
Get PDFAlthough Tupac Shakur, American rapper, maintained in a late interview that he had gotten past his abandonment by his father, the absence of that father no doubt left him to fend for himself, scarred and confused. This sense of abandonment extended to the theological realm. For Shakur, God the Father “can’t come where I’m at.” He is, in a sense, a “deadbeat dad.” Like the absentee father, He has placed him here, abandoned, the product of a broken home and broken world, with few resources by which to find his way. Understanding a father-less Tupac Shakur and his syncretic quest for a Black Jesus begins with recognizing how much his life and character are enframed in his mother’s own story. The enframing starts when she is in prison and he is in her womb, life nurtured within life imprisoned. It continues with her renaming of her son: how that renaming links him historically (and tragically) to a number of syncretic, revolutionary movements. Indeed, this enframing still plays a role when Tupac’s misguided quest for Black Jesus dead ends in the figure of the Godfather
Landfill Communities within the Land of Eternal Spring
Get PDFThis paper examines the placement and impact of landfills within Guatemala City, Guatemala. By examining the municipal cite and its accessibility to policy taken on towards proper waste management, the recurring theme of lack of information will be obvious. It specifically looks at the lack of information provided and describes the landfill communities by looking at the minimal scholarship and media attention offered. This paper will also interrelate the importance of all beings, living and non-living with its surroundings and highlight ideas of ecological thinking. An emphasis on environmental racism will be stressed, particularly with the enormous impact it has had on indigenous populations, of whom are subjected to living in these landfills without proper access to education, resources or representation in government.https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/env434_justice/1000/thumbnail.jp