Amish Culture

The Amish is a group of traditionalist Christians that rely on simple living, plain dress and refuse to adapt to modern technology. The history of the Amish started in Switzerland in 1693 led by Jakob Amman. Today majority of the traditional descendants of the Amish live in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

It’s very easy to find the differences between Amish and American societies and even though it may not seem like it at first glance there are some similarities between the two. Such as religion, yes America has a diverse set of religion, but both societies believe the right to religious freedom. That is why Amish societies are located in America because they are allowed to express their religion. Another similarity in both societies is education. Even though Amish children mostly only go to an eighth grade education, both societies prepare the children for adulthood and teach them skills that will help them in society.

The culture of the Ho-Chunk Nation is quite fascinating to read. The Ho-Chunk tribe was established in Wisconsin as the time of French contact in the 1630s. The name Ho-Chunk can also mean “people of the parent voice” or “people of the Big Voice”. The Ho-Chunk relied more on agricultural products for subsistence. In order to achieve this subsistence the Ho-Chunk planted large gardens and stored dried corn and beans in fiber bags and in pits dug in the ground for winter use. All the Ho-Chunk lived in a single village in the Lake Winnebago area. In this village each family would live in a substantial rectangle house. Within these villages and tribes leadership was dual. There was civil or peace chief who resolved problems by peaceful means. This chief also took advice to the elders and people of the

The Amish people try to avoid bringing attention to themselves, and are extremely cautious with the dangers of arrogance and self-worth. Tourism among the communities has increased and threatens the humble values that the people hold close to their culture. Non-Amish people are just so fascinated in the plain apparel they wear and the manner in which they interact with each other. Furthermore, the Amish people are just viewed as an attraction for people and the privacy of the community is not respected. Tourists flood the Amish communities in the hopes to catch a brief glimpse of the families working or children playing. In addition to the invasion of personal privacy, the increase in tourism opens their children to the materialistic mainstream of outside society. If the children get a glimpse of how the outside world interacts they may not want to stay and become baptized, making the future Amish

Did you know the word cherokee means those who “live in the mountains. The cherokee were very superstitious. ”The beliefs, culture and history of the cherokee tribe can easily be seen in “How the World Was Made.”

The thing that I find most compelling about this culture is how they have manage to stand the test of time with there harsh standards they have placed upon themselves do to their beliefs in these magical rituals and ceremonies. The one type of ritual that I think is the most interesting to me is the fact hat they believed in some of these magical rituals and ceremonies so much that they would actually sometimes toucher themselves to complete these rituals that are supposed to heal or help you but in the process bring unbelievable pain in some cases. Another thing that I found to actually be crude and unsetting is the fact that if you were sick they would literally quarantine you and if you don’t get better you are just left to die. Especially young children the fact they they would have a place designated for sick kids to basically go and die since younger kids have a lesser chance of surviving then adults do. The temple that was used was literally the place they kids where supposed to go to die. There were things that I found interesting and there are thing that I have strong feeling against because they go against my morals.

However, with the remains of their pieces of tools and other goods across the lands in different villages it can be speculated that some groups of Native Americans had social relations with others, or had mobile groups spread across the lands. For example, the clovis was an instrument used for hunting by the Paleo-Indian groups. The Clovis and Folsom peoples, and has been found in animal and village remains across the land. Judging that their groups traveled a lot this means that they built social connections with other groups. Leaving behind many small villages of fewer people for archaeologists to excavate. Additionally, social constrictions are seen in the people who follow after the Paleo-Indian peoples who focused more on hunting and gathering, but relied heavily more on natural foods such as fruits and nuts. As a result of this gathering technique for food supply, more villages were formed beginning with the archaic peoples. I believe this had led to the evolution of larger populations in native villages as I had read throughout Plog’s book that the villages got bigger with the increased use farming agricultural goods such as maize and beans. Rather than small campsites, villages rose as a result such as the Shabik’eschee peoples in Chaco Canyon. The development of village life led to new cultural customs such as cremation of the dead and preserved

Amish culture is a European born group of Christians who are descendents of Mennonite church. Due to few fundamental religious differences, they separated from Mennonite regime which made them go through a series of violence causing a remarkable decrease in their population. However, after gaining ground sin United States and Canada, they are living their lives peacefully in isolation. The current culture of Amish people is a true representative of simplicity, humility, thrift, obedience,

In the 1900’s we used to have apaches in the United States. Apaches believed that supernatural beings lived with them. The apaches could not see them, but they were there. How the apaches built there teepees was they would use long poles, and buffalo skin. The women from every family would build the teepees, and it took up to 30 minutes to build. How they would build the teepees is the women would put the long poles up, then they would tie the poles together, and then the women would tightly wrap the buffalo skin around the teepees. The teepees could hold up to more than three families, but it might be a little tight in the teepees. Also the apaches would live in longhouses to, but it took longer to build the longhouse, and the long house could fit more than 7 families in it but it might still be crowded.

The main features that identified the traditional society are sustenance depended on the natural environment as climate, soil, natural resources and area’s carrying capacity and their consistency in traditions. Moriori, The Dokota Sioux, and the Yir Yoront people all live with hunter-gathering life style, people live in their milieu and accepted little outer technology, idea, and belief. As an example, Yir Yoront people refused to accept canoe to their life, even though they are very well aware of it existence and its benefit. They had always based their cultural system on totem ideology that everything they owned is passed down from their ancestor and believed that their future will be an eternal continuity of present. People rather rely on

Today was the day that the Iroquois tribe moved in Wisconsin and started to build their longhouses and started to put there people in their longhouses right away. The Iroqios said, “ That they were going to build some were around 30 to 150 longhouses in the village.”The longhouses were as long as 150 feet and 30 feet wide. “The materials that the Iroquois used were wooden poles covered with shingles and elm bark.” The crazy thing that I thought was pretty interesting was that the they made their longhouses water proof by putting sticky sap on the cracks in the bark. There was ten clans with the Iroquois. The clans put fur on their longhouses to show who was living in that longhouse. There is fifteen to twenty different families living in longhouses.

When people hear the words, prehistoric hunters and gatherers, their first thoughts are of a human wearing garments made of animal skin, carrying large clubs, and most stereotypes assume that their language consisted of grunt-like sounds. These perceptions include characteristics such as these people being uncivilized, unintelligent, having aggressive behaviors, and that their lives consisted of being nasty, brutish, and short. This stereotype is very wrong because before the adoption of agriculture, some 12,000 years ago, hunters and gatherers really were not nasty, brutish and short, as many people presume they were. These people lived in an actual communist society, where everyone works toward the same common goal; there are not wealthy

a. An example of this community is the barn-raising, which usually occurs after the destruction of an Amish building, due to a fire or effects of a bad storm. The women of the community begin a wave of mass baking and cooking with recipes for up to 175 men that would make Martha Stewart jealous. The men begin to collect materials and the rebuilding of whatever is the focus of the raising, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

The Amish are a small group of people that live in a secluded area of the eastern United States of America. The cultural group known as the Amish has constituted themselves as a unique entity in America's diverse landscape. Amish life is centered on religion, agriculture, and the family. For most people who live outside of the Amish culture, this group seems out of touch with the present time; a culture of another era. This belief is primarily attributable to the Amish belief in simplicity and their rejection of modern technologies (The Amish 2011). One of the most important aspects of Amish life and livelihood is agriculture; the Amish focus much of their life on the growth and harvest of food and other crops. The various factors that affect the culture are based upon agriculture; including the Amish beliefs and values, economic organization, gender relations, kinship, political organization, sickness, social change, and social organization.

The Amish live a different life style than we do. A lot of people misunderstand the way they live their life in rural communities. They think that the Amish live an old fashioned life and fear the real world. All they want to do is help their community every way they can. Each fellowship is broken down into districts where they live independently by rules their community agrees on. The rules consist of clothing requirements, color of buggies, household items, etc. There are around 200,000 members of the Amish in which come from more than 20 states. In fact, the Amish community has been growing. Every 20 years the population doubles.