Information Sheet Tribe: Karankawas Region: Coastal Plains Geographic: The geography of the Southern Coastal Plains includes hot humid weather and frequent flooding. This area has scrub brush, mesquite trees, and oak trees. There is plenty of grass and mosquitoes present all year round. This region is located near the Gulf of Mexico. The Karankawas were the tallest of all the Native American tribes. The average height of a male Karankawa was six feet tall. Their growth is attributed to a diet of shellfish. Shells contain calcium and calcium makes bones stronger. Shellfish was accessible to them because they lived on the coast. The tribe was somewhat nomadic because living on the gulf coast left them vulnerable to flooding and hurricanes.
The geography of the Southern colony includes the Appalachian Mountains, Piedmont, the Atlantic Coastal Plain, and has good harbors and rivers for fish and ships. The Southern colony has a humid climate with mild winters for being outside a lot., hot summers, and long growing seasons that are perfect for farming. The geography and climate will be an asset, but the hot summers will be hard to fight during.
Most of the precipitation is around the Gulf Coastal region near Austin and Galveston Island because that is the farthest point of southeast in Texas. Most of the Great Plains will not get nearly as much rain as the Gulf Coastal region because the elevation is a bit higher. The Mountains and Basins region will get little if not no rain at all because of the elevation of that region. The population in North Central is higher than most regions because of the few major cities we have and the growing cities. The regions Gulf Coastal and Great Plains are related because the weather is alike and the population of both regions are close together. The Great Plains and the Mountains and Basins are close related because the Great Plains has big hills
The Coastal Plains of Texas is a large area that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to beyond the Rio Grande. This region can be divided into 5 distinct areas.
The climate of the interior plains is continental, which basically means that the climate is relatively dry with extremely hot summers and cold winters. The weather is very diverse and may change quickly without warning. In the North of the physiographic region, the winters are long and the summers are short and cool whereas in the South, the the winters are harsh with little precipitation and long summers. Although the humid weather and the flat lands create an ideal place to grow crops like wheat and corn, the growing season itself is quite short, even in the southern region due to the lack of precipitation needed for diversified crops to flourish. The flat prairies east to the Rockies is a meeting ground for Arctic, Pacific and
Humans across all cultures try to explain why they came to be as well as where they came from, and from these explanations become stories. These stories all begin as oral traditions, they change generation to generation and at some point, they are written down or not. Native American genesis stories are often not written down as they are viewed as detracting from the story, they are meant to be oral stories and once written down they cease to be "alive". The Cherokee tribe has a very interesting origin story, that can lead to some interesting possibilities of where this story could have stemmed from. The Cherokee genesis story originates from an early group of humans crossing the Bering Strait and leaving an impact on their ancestor's memories
Although nobody is certain if they were cannibals it is often talked about that they would eat their defeated enemies. They lived in brush shelter made from grass and reeds. They survived off of hunting and fishing they would hunt buffalo and deer. They fished for oyster,shrimp, and crab. The Atakapa wore breechcloth and wraparound skirts. This tribe are more warlike than other tribes.Their religion was about the worship of the sun. if they did not live in the gulf region they would not be able to fish or hunt like they do.
Native American in the Central and Southwestern societies fundamentally is based on the idea of collectivism. They relied on foraging and pre-agriculture farming. The political structure and population does not grow into complicate or large quantity. Due to their communities are formed by several small bands, the relationship between tribal members are real close. Most of tribal members are relatives, and everyone knows each other. In the other hand, the hardship of living in wild
The Native American Tribe, Shuswap originally called the Xatsu”ll in the olden days. This tribe has many different weapons and tools(Cultures of the World Canada book). Each of these weapons and tools are used and made in differents ways. But all their weapons are important in its own way. The Shuswap tribe is very interesting and has much for you to learn about.
Though obvious to the name, the American Indian Tribes had much to do with the growth of what we now know of as the US. Long ago when the english settlers came over with Columbus, on the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, they had found that there were people living there, were very different from “the white man”. But the American Indians have been located throughout the states from the very beginning and are still thriving, in some cases. One of the more commonly known, American Indian Tribes is the Cherokee tribe.(WKU Meteorology; Dr. Greg Goodrich)
I believe that the Makah Indians should be granted the wavier to continue to hunt whales. Particularly, since the U.S Government signed the Neah Bay Treaty in 1855 with the Makah people, stating that it was OK for the Makah Indians to continue to hunt for fish, seals, whales, in exchange for 500 acre of their ancestral land. I feel it is only fair for the U.S government to keep their word and continue to let them hunt. In addition, the Gray Whale population has risen tremendously since 1926 and hunting 5 whales per year will not cause anymore damage. It is also very apparent that the Makah people care about the whales and don't view them as just an animal to kill because they volunteered to momentarily end their whale hunting in order to save the species when the whale species nearly went extinct. In conclusion, no part of the whale is wasted, the Makah people find uses for all parts of the whale.
The Makah Indians lived in the Pacific Northwest Coast (in Washington State). They lived on a reservation which means that they owned the land so that land was under their control. They live by the shore which is by ocean that they lived by. The Indians had 5 permanent villages, Waatch, Sooes, Deah, Ozette, and Bahaada. Each village has several long housed that are made of cedar planks and they are eached measured about 30ft wide and 70 ft. long.
Founded in 1891, the United States Industrial Indian School at Phoenix, later known as the Phoenix Indian School, was a coeducational, federal institution for American Indian primary and secondary students. The school temporarily operated out of the West End Hotel, but in April 1891 a 160-acre property was acquired with money from both the federal government and a group of Phoenix businessmen, and in June 1892 a main school building was completed. This Indian school was created for the purpose of indoctrinating the indian children into the American lifestyle and to eliminate all knowledge of their culture. It did this through the banning of any language that was not english, forcing them to adopt american values and american beliefs, and violating
The Yurok tribe, although mostly assimilated in present times, has continued to thrive and protect their culture. The Yurok tribe has endured a sordid history. The tribe has suffered great atrocities at the hands of western culture. The Yurok went from being a thriving people, to being assimilated, almost to the point of ethnocide, (Kottak) and finally forced to live in a small area that was once a part of their vast ancestral land. The Yurok people have strived up until the present to keep their culture alive. In this essay I will be discussing what the Yurok tribe is like today, what problems they face politically and socially, and what the tribe is doing to combat these issues.
The Nacirema tribe is often glorified for coexisting with Natives that hold a multitude of varying views. Whether these views are right or wrong we won’t discuss. From studying the Nacirema tribe it is clear that they run a society of secrets. They are so private, that many of their established leaders seem to know little to nothing of their own history. For reasons, unbeknown the Leaders are desperate to keep incoming tribe members in the dark about the past and promote a complete erasing of their history thus pitting the communities against each other.
Over the course of history, indigenous people have been the target of discrimination, racism, and systematic oppression. Beginning as early as 1492 when Columbus reached the Caribbean, indigenous people were either attacked, enslaved, or forced to move back to make way for European expansion, which ultimately led to the destruction of Native American livelihood. Multiple wars broke out between the Europeans and indigenous groups, like the Pequot War in 1637 and King Philip’s War in 1675. Many indigenous people were forced to assimilate into white culture or otherwise, risk execution. Then in the 1800s, when President Andrew Jackson enacted the Indian Removal Policy, the Trail of Tears occurred (over 4,000 of the 15,000 Cherokees died on the