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Wisdom Sits in Places

Introduction

History plays a very significant role in the human life. It is always related to the humankind as the time period increases, the history includes various stories, facts and incidents in it. The understanding of humans about the past and history takes different paths and routes depending on their existence style and culture. These routes or paths follow in two categories, the first one is the old one about telling stories of some parties and glorifies their history by shameless manner which is now discarded. Second is the new and organized method in which the history is perceived as a objective which accounts the past events and the order in which they happened. Furthermore, there several other paths which are also in practice for remembering the history, one such path is the native Western Apache. In this path the dates and specific timings are not recorded however, the places and stories are recorded. This method also uses the history to remember, teach and inform the morals and actions of that particular civilization. For the Apache path the place of the event or story is most important not the time or date of it. The traditions of how to use history are different and this is described in this topic that how the places plays an important role in the past history and how they can be made relevant to everyday interaction.

Discussion

Apache

The term “Apache” is collective expression for different groups of Native Americans that are culturally related in the United States and were originally from the Southwest of the United States. These native people of the Northern America speak a language that is named as Sothern Athabaskan or more generally as Apachean language. This Apachean language is more related to the speakers of western Canada and Alska which speaks the language of Athabaskan. The Apachean groups have very little unity in politics while the major groups speak seven different languages and have developed different cultures. The divisions of Apachean groups are Western apache, Mescalero, Navajo. Lipan, Jicarilla and Plains Apache or Kiowa-Apache. Most of the Apachean groups live in the Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma (Linda, 2012).

Place Names in History

Places play a very important role in the history of the humankind. It is believed that a place is the main and initial of all the happenings as if the place exists then all the happenings exist, if the place don not exist then no happening or event can exist. This idea is considered in the Apache path of remembering the history as in Apache concept, places are very important to remember for the stories. This concept can be seen as a significant path because places have names or descriptive imageries which refer to some happening, event or incident. Every place that has a name has some history related to it. The place-names are significantly important as the name of a place is given so as it is passed through years of history and ...