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| What is language? | Different words for how entirely different cultures see and conceptualize their worlds |
| What do words determine? | How we see the world and how we see others. |
| What is social stereotyping? | Judging an individual by negative characteristics attributed to his ethnic or racial group. |
| What is social tolerance? | To accept that an individual can think or act differently than the majority |
| How did the Euro-Americans treat the Indians upon first contact? | As if they had no human value |
| What is considered to be an excellent way to determine how a cultural group percieves their world? | Study the structures they build. |
| How do Indians view beautiful, large Euro-American churches? | Imposing upon nature. A celebration of man's domination of nature. |
| How does the architecture of the Acoma Village compare with Euro-American architecture? | It blends with nature, not impose upon nature. |
| What do Indians think the Earth is? | Sacred |
| What does land mean to the Euro-American culture? | symbol of wealth and power |
| What does land mean to the Indians? | a sacred place that cannot be owned |
| Where does God live according to the Indians? | Everywhere on Earth |
| Animism | A primitive belief system that the spirt of god is in every living thing |
| What is the Acoma Pueblo to the Acoma Indians? | a living monument to the holy land. a religious sanctuary |
| Whose architecture reaches and aspires to the heavens? | Euro-America |
| What do Euro-Americana formal gardens say about that culture? | Likes to conquer nature. a need to turn chaos in to order |
| What do Indians think about Euro-American formal gardens | unnatural, alienating |
| Why did the narrator find the words "dirt" and "soil" so disturbing? | These words are used to describe uncleanliness, but dirt and soil is the earth which is sacred |
| Why is the English word "wilderness" disturbing to Indians? | They don't seen anything wild in the ?wilderness" |
| What did the narrator's mother think had happened to the land in New York City? | Buried alive under concrete |
| What did the narrator's mother think about NYC's Central Park | reservation for trees |
| What is the Indian word for calendar? | There is none |
| What is "Indian Time"? | Ceremonials instead of holidays. Whenever it feels right. |
| Upon what do Indians base their concept of time? | Natural rythym of the earth. |
| Ballets dancers... | dance publicly and try to rise above nature |
| Indian dancers dance... | ;rivately and become one with nature |
| What influence the choreographer Martha Green? | Southwest Indian dancers |
| What influenced the abstract impressionist Jackson Pollack? | Navajo sand paintings |
| Navajo sand painting | a series of sacred symbols used to cure an illness caused by a loss of harmony |
| Why aren't Navajo sand painting curing ceremonies photographed? | Too powerful and sacred |
| What is Indian art? | the embodiment of the sacred used for healing |
| Into what did European art evolve? | Worldly from the sacred |
| What did 17th and 18th Century Europeans think of primal art? | grotesqu |
| What famous Iberian artist based his work on African primal art? | Pablo Picasso |
| Whe did 20th Century European artists become attracted to primal art | They sought its sacredness |
| What influenced sculptor Henry Moore? | Toltec and Mayan art |
| What is the dilemma faced by modern Indian artists | traditional art versus progressive art |
| What are paintings? | representations of our visions of reality |
| What new mentality is emerging in the white culture | beginning to recognize the vast potential of the human mind |
| What is the "multiverse"? | Truth is many sided. There is room for every idea and person. The variety of meaning and interpretation ultimately makes life meaningful. |
