Barona Tribal Museum

The Creek Indian Tribe created art by using items they found in nature. They used it to tell a story or represent history. Each item that was made had a purpose and was put to use. Many of the items were created just before the Green Corn Festival.

When I read Museum Indians I thought that the simile most important to the story was “She is so tall, a true Dakota woman; she rises against the sun like a skyscraper...” This part from the text means that when the author describes her mother she is different from any other woman that she has met and encountered in her life. She holds her mom on an invisible pedestal that is even higher than needing the sun to live. The effect this has on the text is that the reader is fully able to understand that she thinks so greatly of her mother. As the reader gets farther in the text they will also come to the know how little she thinks of herself. The tone of this quote that you take in is joyful because it make you think of the bright sun and how her

The native americans also made special tools to help them live!Here are some examples of some tools the cahuilla and the mojave made and how they made them.They made spades out of flint, stone or iron.They also made bows and arrows out of plant stems that grew on trees, stone or iron to make the arrow head, tied the arrow head onto a stick, and

Jane Addams and her colleague, Ellen Gates Starr, founded the most successful settlement house in the United States otherwise known as the Hull-House (“Settlement” 1). It was located in a city overrun by poverty, filth and gangsters, and it could not have come at a better time (Lundblad 663). The main purpose of settlement houses was to ease the transition into the American culture and labor force, and The Hull-House offered its residents an opportunity to help the community, was a safe haven for the city, and led the way through social reform for women and children.

“Newberry Library: Lewis and Clark Exhibit.” Newberry Library: Lewis and Clark Exhibit, publications.newberry.org/lewisandclark/brilliantplan/gifts/weyekin.html. Accessed 1 Apr. 2017.

The Yanomami believe that everything around them is alive and their responsibility is to take care of all aspects of their environment including the earth, moon, sun and stars. They see themselves as caretakers of the planet, the sun, the moon. The Yanomami culture includes many aspects that can be considered as forms of art. In terms of secular art, the Yanomamo use different mediums from their body through body decorations/painting, basket making, as well as carving of arrows. Their creations all share a common mix of symbols which they use frequently. These symbols include anything from a series of dots to the intricate connecting curves of a spider web. Shades of red and black are most commonly used in body and basket painting. The red pigment is derived from the

The people of the Laguna Pueblo reservation had a respect for the land they lived on. Exhibiting the beliefs of most Native American tribes, they always hunted in certain places and knew the balance of the earth. When other people, the “white people” (page 172), started to overtake the land, they knew they would not be able to stop them from demolishing both the land and the animals that lived there. This shows the evolution of the Native American culture and life as other settlers with differing beliefs found the lands.

The reservations have a history that dates back to the 1840s and were inhabited by the Plains Indians. They were basically used to confine the Plains Indians hence have an easier time controlling the inhabitants. Once confined within this stretch of worthless infertile land, they were no longer a threat to the white settlers and by 1900s the entire population of Plains Indians was almost decimated.

American Indian policy in the US had been ever-changing but as westward expansion began the reservation system, rather than cohabitation, was the most popular method for the theoretical protection of native groups. Disregarding the shortcomings of the reservation system, American Indians could live and practice their beliefs as they always

Chaatsmith, M. L.(2013). Singing at a Center of the Indian World: The SAI and Ohio Earthworks. The American Indian Quarterly 37(3), 181-198. In her article, Chaatsmith presented the Newark Earthworks as the largest geometric earthen enclosures owned by the historical society of Ohio, whilst the Hopewell (the name given to the people who is believed to have constructed these earthwork) culture historic national park is owned by the National Park Services of Ohio. Chaatsmith argues that, the earthwork exemplify cultural significance of the ancient Ohio occupants. She further claimed, the observatory at the Octagon Earthworks was engineered to serve a special purpose. More to the point, the Indigenous people of the Eastern Woodlands built the Octagon Earthworks walls and entryways to track all eight of the alignments during the entire lunar cycle. The article also claim it’s possible that those who formulated and constructed the Newark Earthworks used the earth and sky to bring into existence something central and transformation to their communities. It is reports that attempts was made to connect with American Indian natives to further understand the complexity of such structures, but was unsuccessful. A framework was suggested of the importance for the future generations of American Indian decent to work alongside archaeologist and others in attempts to However, in relevance to this project the article present some of the challenges of understanding the significance of

In the 19th century the United States federal government had a vision to expand and utilize the country, but the indigenous tribes complicated their plans of expansion. Years of constant “negotiations” with the natives resulted in millions of acres of land evicted from the natives. Assigning tribes to reservations for them to inhabit was the government’s hope of finally avoiding violent and political conflicts with the natives. However, Indian reservations led to controversy and frustration of the natives since they were succumbed to poor living conditions. As years passed federal policies started to change once federal officials and Indian rights organization groups started to recognize that the reservations were unlivable to the people. John

An indian woman rushed out of the embraced Sacagawea. It was an emotional moment for all of us especially Sacagawea because we did not know what would come in the future. A few hours before this happened, we met indians from the Shoshoni tribe. They had horses and we wanted to trade. They were not comfortable trading with us. As they started walking away, Sacagawea practically came out of nowhere and yelled after them. They thought it was a trick at first, but she identified herself and that is when they stopped. They turned around and one of them recognised her. They immediately agreed to trade with us and invited us back to their village. Apparently, word had got out that Sacagawea was coming back because everyone was waiting for her, and

The Barona Cultural Center and Museum had the most impression upon me than the previous visited museums assigned to the class. There are a number of things that I learned from our tribal ancestors and there was also a good amount of objects that impressed me from the Barona museum. I learned that our ancestors were astronomers, they built stone markers to track the movements of the heavenly bodies. Understanding when the seasons changed helped the Barona tribe to harvest food at the right time. By the means of accurately predicting and marking the longest day in summer and the longest night in winter, when the sun is farthest from the equator, which is known as solstices, the Barona tribe was able to track the seasons and uphold cultural traditions.

Nowadays, the Native Americans have faced the bad living conditions. There are lots of factors contribute to the hardship such as economics, health, and racism. The Native Americans have a poor quality of education. Their schools are separated from the White’s schools. As a result, the chance to get a job out of the reservation is decreasing. At the reservations, the governments are the largest employers. And about a half of ten adults are unemployed. The reservation’s income and economy are depending on the government. Sometimes, people heard that the Indians own the casinos. In fact, a very few reservation could own the casinos. Although there are casinos in the reservations, the income belongs to the investors instead. The housing on the

The Natives of California distinguish plants and animals into diverse locations of botany and zoology . They learn to cultivate throughout the views of animals and by creating a food chain that benefited the tribe. Many native tribes observed the environmental system that either made other species survive and extinct. The natives were considered to be curious about the environment they lived that prepared them want to learn, observe, and practice rituals. The natives were uninformed that religious ritual such as coordinating the sun and moon movement was practical rituals of much groundwork for collecting food and building supplies. Like many other American native groups they established and discover valuable properties of plants. Using kernels, plant roots, tree barks and herbal leaves as curative purposes. As the native embarked a lot of nature resources there were many that are ineffective and some are used in today’s modern medicine.