Axia College Material
Appendix D
Indigenous Culture Web Site Review Template
Question
Web site 1 URL:
Name of Indigenous culture/religion
presented in Web site
Consider the examples of roles and
observances held sacred by these
people. Is this practice being kept
alive?
Has the culture/religion evolved over
time?
If the culture/religion still lives, how has
Western culture changed it?
Who authored this site? Do you think
the content of the site is authentic?
Response
www.nativeweb.org
The name of the indigenous culture
proclaimed in this website is the Native
culture.
Some practices held by the Natives are
ones that were used back before they
became a huge issue. They are not still
practiced the same ways though, with
new technologies I believe they have
changed the manner in which they are
practiced.
Yes, as I said above with the new
technologies and such, there are so
many new ways of practicing the
healing process and new medicines.
The western culture has been an
accelerating and pervasive influence on
the Natives. With modification and
adaptation of the Native culture has
followed interethnic contact.
I am not sure who authorized the site
but I do believe it is authentic.
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 I learned that with Native indigenous
people come with lots of caring and
Name one interesting fact you learned
loving people who are not trying to
from this Web site.
harm anyone but to only trying to help.

Question Response

Web site 2 URL:

www.nuffic.nl/ik-pages/index.html
Name of indigenous culture/religion
Western Ethiopian.
presented in Web site.
Consider the examples of roles and
observances held sacred by these
people. Is this practice being kept No
alive?
Has the culture/religion evolved over No
time?
If the culture/religion lives, how has n/a
Western culture changed it?
I am again unsure of who authorized
Who authored this site? Do you think
the site but I do believe it is authentic
the content of the site is authentic?
I learned that the Ethiopian people
have tried to help transfer goods and
Name one interesting fact you learned
products in order to help serve the
from this Web site.
farmers and people of their country.

Question Response

Web site 3
URL:
http://newsblaze.com/story/20090527054047zzzz.nb/topstory.html
Name of
indigenous Nepal, Buddhist, and Hinduism
culture/religio
n presented in

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Web site.
Consider the
examples of Yes
roles and
observances
held sacred
by these
people. Is this
practice being
kept alive?
Has the
culture/religio
n evolved Yes
over time?
If the
culture/religio
n lives, how I couldn’t find any information on this topic.
has Western
culture
changed it?
Who authored
this site? Do
you think the Krishna B. Bhattachanan
content of the
site is
authentic?

I learned that Hindu religion is the most important and the most
liberal religion in the world, this is according the Irish litterateur
George Bernard. Another thing I learned that I enjoyed reading
Name one about was the fact that It was almost 100 years before unification
interesting of Germany (1868), Italy (1868), and the restoration of the Meiji
fact you (Japan, 1868) in which America was also under British
learned from dependency, that Prithvi Narayan Shah had already unified (1768)
this Web site. 54 small fiefdoms to build a large, expanded and greater Nepal.
But after the movement of April 2006 and the party leaders came
to power they smashed the statue of the great King, contempt and
insulted him and called off the birth anniversary of the late king as
a day of national unity.

Question Response
Web site 4 URL:

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 http://countrystudies.us/sudan/50.
htm

Name of indigenous culture/religion Sudans

presented in Web site.

Consider the examples of roles and

observances held sacred by these
people. Is this practice being kept No
alive?
Has the culture/religion evolved over No
time?

The distinction between the natural and

the supernatural that has emerged in
the Western world is not relevant to the
traditional religions. Spirits may have
If the culture/religion lives, how has
much greater power than human
Western culture changed it?
beings, but their powers are perceived
not as altering the way the world
commonly works but as explaining
occurrences in nature or in the social
world.

Who authored this site? Do you think The U.S Library of Congress
the content of the site is authentic?

Although southern Sudan does not

suffer as acutely as northern Sudan
from lack of rain, there has sometimes
been a shortage, particularly during the
1970s and 1980s and in 1990; this lack
has created hardship, famine, and
Name one interesting fact you learned
death amidst the travail of civil war. For
from this Web site.
this reason, rituals connected with rain
have become important in many ethnic
groups, and ritual specialists concerned
with rain or thought to incarnate the
spirit of rain are important figures.

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