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Bandura's Social Learning Theory

Introduction
This paper will entail a discussion of a child named Dietta and her heritage. Dietta is a 6 year old female, Native North American child who is a member of the Tohono O’Odham tribe. Dietta resides with her family on the Tohono O’Odham reservation in southern Arizona. The Tohono O’Odham reservation is the second largest reservation in the United States and it stretches for over one hundred miles along the Mexico/American border. The reservation is very rural and lies in the arid Sonoran Desert, characterized by wide valleys, plains and jutting mountain ranges which rise to nearly 8,000 feet. The reservation and its tribal members would be considered to be of the lower socio-economic class in the United States.
Tohono O’Odham Cultural History and Migration Experience
The Tohono O’Odham, formally known as the Papago, have lived in the Sonoran Desert for thousands of years. Although the desert too many of us seems to be unrelenting in its severe w...

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