Native American Atlatls

“The history of American Indians before European contact is broadly divided into three major periods: the Paleo-Indian period, the Archaic period (8000–1000 b.c.), and the Woodland period (1000 b.c.–1600 a.d.).”(DiNome) There is little known information about the Paleo-Indian period; however, the Paleo Indians are believed to be some of the first American Indians, not only in Florida, but in all of America. The Paleo Indians were believed to be nomads who fought and hunted with stone tools and

was called the clovis point. The clovis point was the most common arrowhead that was used on spears and other sharp tools and weapons that were used for hunting. However, there were different clovis points from different tribes and groups of Native Americans across the continents of North, Central and South America, but all

were 200 spanish soldiers against 50,000 Inca warriors. The Spanish soldiers terrorised the native Americans by firing their rifles. Which caused the natives to believed that the soldiers could create thunder. Crossbows were also used but uncommon because they were slow to load and could malfunction easily. The most common weapon in the Spanish artillery was the sword. A good foot soldier could kill many natives in seconds. Spanish soldiers had the finest armor in the world (at the time). The soldier

Shuswap Native American Tribe 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. Each tool and weapon was made from certain items, and they each are used in a different way. The Shuswap

especially, with decoding the unknown history of the Native Americans before European contact. From the archaeological sites to the different dates of artifacts collected over the decades, archaeologists have grouped pre-European contact in Native American history four periods of time, Paleo (Prehistory) (more than 10,000 years ago), Archaic (roughly 10,000-2,500 years ago), Woodland (roughly 3,000 years ago- early 1600s), and then Euro-American (1600s to present)*. *These time frames are a rough

I am a native american living in 1540. Many other tribes around me have been conquered by the spanish. I fear that I will have to fight for my family soon. I’m just 13 and everyday I hunt and grow crops. I was eating fruit and bread for breakfast with my family before we started working for the day. In the middle of our table was an “atlatl” made by my ancestors. It’s a spear on a slingshot with a stone point. My father says that it was made in the Paleo Time Period 10,000 years ago. Now, in the

When the Europeans conquered the Native Americans; both groups had little understanding of each other, especially their cultures. The Native Americans had a rich through history that allowed them to be almost as developed as the Europeans. However, the Europeans overlooked this because the Native Americans had not established the same man-made medical and agricultural developments as the Europeans. Conversely, the Native Americans thought that the Europeans were too concerned with dead objects, and

The idea of American Romanticism originated in the early 19th century. It encompassed the revolutionary spirit America was beginning to embody, and sought to break rigid societal norms of conformity by emphasizing the individuals importance, fueled by emotion as movement, in connecting to the world in which one lived. The movement utilized various facets of art to form an identity, which produced an overwhelming appeal to an American society with contradicting mindsets prevalent in trying to form

1.)What are some of the common misconceptions about indigenous writers? In what ways do the writers we've read play on those stereotypes? Some of the common misconceptions is that indigenous writers are that they could not speak English, uneducated, all lived in teepees, and their medicine was primitive. The writers that we have read about dealt with these stereotypes was by including hints and lines that these stereotypes are false. “Lullaby” by Leslie Marmon Silko has a line about where the Indians

In the short story “Totem” by Thomas King, the relationship between the totem pole and the museum workers is negative. The relationship is depicted as being overpowering, authoritative, and entitled when the workers continually try to remove the totem pole from the museum. Ultimately, the totem pole symbolizes the struggles and perseverance of the Indigenous people in Canada. In King’s short story, the museum workers are continually trying to remove the totem pole from the museum as Walter, one