Klamath Tribe

The Wichita is a tribe that belongs to a small tribe about three hundred and twenty who live in Oklahoma. They are a tribe of Native Americans who were discovered by the Coronado expedition. Like other Native American tribes the Wichita people have their own language, culture and both, social and legal customs. They refer to themselves as Kitikitish which can be taken literally to mean raccoon eyelids. But signifies a tattooed eyelid which is from a former custom among men where they tattooed lines upon their eyelids. Women however tattoo lines upon the chin and among older women there are those with tattooed designs all over their breasts. The Wichita people were primarily sedentary interested in hunting and farming. The men hunted and went for wars for the protection of their families while women farmed and raised children.

The Cherokee tribe is known as one of the earliest and largest Indian tribe in North America. They are federally recognized even today among several states(museum). While they slowly became Americanized by the Europeans who came over to America, some still practice their typical Indian rituals publicly today. Most converted to Christianity and their government in Oklahoma is based off the American government with three branches. One would believe that the Trail of Tears could have completely vanquished these Indians but many made it through the horrendous trial and kept the Indian bloodline going even present day (Conley).

The tribe that I am researching for my curriculum module is the Kootenai Tribe. In this project I would like to learn the history of this tribe; from their first encounter with western settlers to the present times. I would also like to know the political history, and the impacts that this tribe has had on treaties and other government documents. This tribe has peaked my interest in the last few years because, after living in Montana all my life I have heard a lot about the Salish Tribe, but not the Kootenai. I want to know why that is, and why if the Salish and Kootenai joined together on the Flathead Reservation and created the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, why is the Kootenai history ignored?

The Hualapai people are a tribe of Native Americans that are currently living in northwestern Arizona. The name Hualapai means “People of the Tall Pines”(“About Hualapai”). These people have a rich history that is passed on by oral tradition. These people have influences in hunting (“About Hualapai”). Through history, these people have not lost their culture and traditions.

The sovereign Miami Tribe of Oklahoma is based in Miami, Oklahoma in the northeastern corner of the state. Originating out of the Great Lakes region, the Miami Tribe was forced to move to Kansas and then later to Oklahoma. The population of the community is 4,440 peoples spread across the country and world. A unique thing about the Miami Tribe is despite their small size and diverse geographical locations these people share a special connection. The Miami Tribe values a strong community life, tribe benefits, and opportunities for it’s people. These values explain what it means to be of Miami decent in and out of the community.

For centuries the Nooksack tribe located in Northwest Washington has been dependent on the wilderness for survival. Originally defined as a horticultural community, the Nooksack people have used their knowledge the land to support their daily necessities of food and shelter. Salmon runs in the nearby Nooksack River, named after the local tribe, continue to be a steady source of protein for the tribe up to this day. However, this way of life has lately been threatened by the diminishing glaciers of nearby Mount Baker. In order to understand the significance this event has to the culture of the Nooksack tribe, we must first look at how their culture has changed in the past, how it would possibly change in response to the glacial thinning and what the reemergence of Mount Baker may mean for future Nooksack generations.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe currently fights to save its only water source from natural gas and oil contamination. This troubling current event has a somewhat forgotten historical analogue where very similar themes presented themselves. The Kinzua Dam Controversy, which took place in the 1950’s and early 1960’s, resulted in the displacement of over 600 Seneca Indian families and the acquisition of a large tract of traditional Seneca Land for dam building. Additionally, the acquisition of Seneca land represented a breach of “The Treaty with the Six Nations of 1794,” which explicated prevented such action by the US Government. The dam and its construction, which primarily benefitted Pittsburg, inspired a heated discourse concerning the ethics of native relocation.

Tecumseh Tecumseh was a Native American and leader of the large Indian tribe called the Shawnee. When he was a young kid the people in his tribe could tell he would have a promising future. Tecumseh was very athletic, wasn’t a trouble maker, and had a great character about him. His father was killed by white men and left Tecumseh mom as a wisdom with Tecumseh and his younger brother. Having his father die at a young age, that focused Tecumseh to immature faster and become the man of the family.

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.

In Is the Crown at War with Us?, it is apparent that the Mi’kmaq people are struggling to access their Aboriginal fishing rights because their rights have been limited by the Canadian government. The license to fish prevents them from going fishing with their children, thereby infringes on their right to raise their children according to their children. It is difficult to acquire fisheries license. The government brought back the fisheries license as means to regulate the industry. The government insisted on a narrow definition of conservation, focusing on licenses. Those who gave up their permit from the treaty also had a tough time getting it back, as the state demanded that they proved their status. Although the Peace and Friendship treaty provided that their right to fish will last forever, they were not upheld by

The beothuk people were a first nations group from canada that lived on the east coast near newfoundland in the notre dame or bonavista bay area and were one of the first groups to come into contact with the europeans,this was approximately around the 1500ś.They welcomed the europeans and traded goods with each other,they showed the newcomers how they lived on the coast and their ways of life and how to fish. More europeans were coming over to live in the new world as were the french. They established a settlement at placentia , the english settlements expanded from conception bay to trinity bay and pushed out the beothuk more in land where they became more isolated and had to deal with the french and other rival first nations groups.

With the federal government’s support, many Native tribes have constructed Native Governments and Corporations where the rights to land and money are placed to their own responsibility. What this actually means is that the rights of the people’s land and monetary bonds are transferred from governmental trust to

Famous American anthropologist and social theorist Clyde Kluckholm , claims in one of his publication that “Every language is also a special way of looking at the world and interpreting experience concealed in the structure of language are a whole set of unconscious assumptions about the world and the life in it”(Writing logically, Thinking critically 7th edition P 35). Based on this theory, we can learn more

To control territory, individuals need to control travel corridors. In northern Canada, this means controlling access to waterways (Speck 1931:577). If people can control a travel way, then they can monitor access to resources. The control of fisheries directly relates to the control of travel routes (Pike 1896:213-214; Pénard 1929:20-24). Social conflicts and their resolution can evidence territorial frontiers. Throughout the oral traditional, there are instances of tense to aggressive conflicts between Denesųłiné and Inuit that highlight cultural frontiers (Janes 1973:39-54; 1974:7-10). The oral traditions mark the expansion and contraction of territory (Pike 1917:186-203; Smith and Burch 1979:78-93). Instead of borders, frontiers are areas of social interaction at the meeting of two or more cultures (Barth 1969:15-37). Inuit encroached on the Denesųłiné because of a re-alignment of their seasonal rounds during the fur trade. To generalize, in

Political Context: In the Sepik River tribe community, there isn’t much of a government-type leader. The people live to their own rules and do as they think is correct. A majority of the community is run by income from the tourists and thus from this, the society thrives.