Native American Mythology Research Paper

This article from “The Real Truth about the Female” by Barbara Ehrenreich targets many beliefs that women were underestimated. The main theory suggested in this document is that, women had to follow the traditional duties. Early theories are being questioned as a result to women proving many things over the years that were often overlooked. Ehrenreich states in his article, “it does strongly suggest that in the Stone Age family, Dad-the-hunter was not the only provider.” There is a great amount of evidence that suggest the theory that women worked as hard as men. Adrienne Zihlman and Nancy Tanner stated “among surviving “hunting” peoples, most of the community’s calories—up to 70%—come from plant food patiently gathered by women.” This fact

1.The role of Native American grandmother can take on different definitions depending on the tribe and their culture. The “grandmother” can be several older fictive kin, or they can be older female relatives, or even simply older women in the tribe (Novak, 2012, p. 191). A grandmother is a respected role taking on the upbringing of their oldest or many grandchildren, additionally even fostering orphans or impoverished children (Weibel-Orlando, 1988, p. 163). This caregiving role eases the burden on younger women, allowing them to help financially or to carry out homemaking tasks. Although some grandparents may relish this role, some have it forced upon them to do unfortunate family circumstances of divorce, drug and alcohol abuse, and death (Novak, 2012, p. 191). According to Weibel-Orlando grandparental roles also play a vital role in the continuity of Native American cultural values, being a “cultural conservator”, and relaying a tribe’s history, rituals, and practices through oral storytelling (pp.250-251).

Native American women had to follow their husbands, fathers, and brothers to wherever they wanted to go in order to stay close to the bison. Therefore, with all the moving around, they had teepees that could be put up for living and taken down for travelling. Women were in charge of both packing up and putting up these moveable homes. Once they had claimed their new home, women started working the fields. These fields were their responsibility. Their children were also theirs to care for while the men were out on long hunting journeys. On top of all that, Native American women made things to trade, such as jewelry, tools, and pottery.

     With Native Americans being the first inhabitants of North America, many people often question what traditions they have created on their own, before the ideas of the pale settlers. When taking a look into their interesting beliefs, it is obvious to see an intricate basis or animals and spirits that guide the lifestyles of Indians all over the country. Even their society had a special way of doing things, including gender roles of both men and women. There are many customs that have seemed odd to the average American throughout the centuries, but Indians found these a normal way of life. Even the lifestyles of Native Americans were unique, from hunting animals to tanning buffalo hides. Gender was a major

Since the Native American people did not keep a record of a lot of things, it was all passed on through stories, rituals, ceremonies, and traditions. One thing that Native American people have is respect for everything. They have respect for things not because someone has ownership, but because they truly want everything to be equal in their eyes. I would say this is an unwritten law because there are not a lot of written laws that the Native American people follow, they only follow tradition, and tradition is respecting all things. The social structure of different groups or statuses in this culture start as everyone in the tribe then goes down to chiefs, then to families, then to women and men in the families. While men were leaders in the community, women were considered the leaders in the home and were highly respected. People on the outside might see that there is an inequality

Today when American society and others societies around the world thinks about a Native American man, the images that comes up ranges from the figure of the Crazy Horse indian warrior man-a strong and aggressive man that when everything seems to be lost rides his horse over the hill and saves the day(Shook)-to the image of the Sitting Bull chief-a hero, a soldier and one of the best leaders of all time in Native American history, who lived his life fighting for the rights of his people and died defending them(Native American Indian Chiefs). These traditional perspective of the Native American man remains valued elements of the Native American masculinity, and remarks the complexity of Native American masculinity(Kimmel, 2004). According to American masculinities: A historical encyclopedia by Bret E. Carroll, in las four hundred years, Native American men have played a host of other roles that have shaped American history in concrete ways and that offer important insights into the

The Northwest Native American tribes, jobs and roles include strict rules and guidelines for each person to follow or you could get in trouble and have to follow the rules of the consequences. The Northwest Native American tribes, jobs and roles consisted of each person in the house and or tribe, a job and were responsible to fulfill the needs of the job, because of their strictness they had to follow very intricate guidelines that most thought would be to strict but then have grown to obey each and every rule to its fullest. Due to the importance of their jobs and or roles and they quite often study ,their roles should be a large section related to the roles they follow deeply in. The roles they follow even though are strict if something happens

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Indian remains were used as souvenirs in past events. American viewed the remains as a prize to show their strength as a nation. They showed the body parts of Indians as one would do in a museum. However, the body parts weren’t retrieved in a moral way, but rather taken from graves. This violation happens in America, when Indian graves were disturbed with soon after the Europeans arrived in the country. If this act took place shortly after arriving, then you could come to the conclusion that the Europeans did this sort of act before, and it wasn’t a moral dilemma for them. Later, the graves of tribe leaders were dug up in the center of the United States. The remains of these Indian leaders were put on exhibit. The disruption of Native Indians

Countries that were colonies have a lot of history beyond that. The United States is one of those countries. Maybe the history in The US is more complex than many other countries. In this Land Native American fought against British, immigrants fought against each other, also colonists fought against colonizer. Boston tea party is one of the most satiate events of history.

Approximately 22% of America’s 5.2 million Native Americans lived on tribal lands. Native Americans lived on Great Plains. That was their natural home and what all they were use to. They also relied on the buffalo for about everything and the horses for transportation. The Indian’s had to do a lot of hard fighting and were mistreated but they stood their ground and never stop their beliefs and the Americans hated it .

The three main topics the article discusses is the extended family’s role, promoting learning during infancy, and the view of obedience. The American Indian tribes believe that if they care for the earth then in return, the earth will care for them (Nichols, 2004, p.227). Within the tribe, caring for the infant is the most important because they are the ones that will pass on the traditions and beliefs hopefully to their own children (Nichols, 2004, p.227). The mother and father of the infant are not the only ones who provide care for the infant. The infant’s extended family is also responsible for the care of the infant (Nichols, 2004, p.244). It is believe that “the stronger the family member’s identity with the tribe, the more likely the person will adhere to the values, beliefs, and parenting practices of the tribe (Nichols, 2004, p. 229). The Cherokee mothers allowing others to raise their children forms special relationships within the extended family, and allows the children to learn a variety of skills (Nichols, 2004, p.237). Also Cherokee mothers allow their infants to learn through exploring with minimal supervision (Nichols, 2004, p.240). The last main topic that was discussed was obedience of children

For over the many years anthropologist and archeologist have developed many diverse theories behind the motivations, beliefs, rituals and existence of Paleolithic rock art within the Native American societies. As majority of these intricate forms of art were created by people of the past, they hold clues to ancient societies and help emphasis connection to the social and cultural aspects of aboriginal communities. A compelling relationship between culture and art has been prominent in society as long as mankind has existed; hunter-gathers, in particular Native Americans created different forms of rock art as a universal way to express themselves and their culture. Originally, anthropologist focused on the religious traditions, beliefs and

According to the article “Native American Cultures,” the history of the Native Americans began approximately 12,000 years ago with the migration of Asian nomads over a large land bridge. The article then explains how these nomads would splinter across the North American continent, creating no fewer than ten identifiable cultural areas. As each area became more established, tribes began to develop traits such as how food was obtained. Many tribes continued to be nomadic, just as their ancestors were, depending on how harsh their environment was. The article also shares how unfortunately for all of these Native American tribes, a prevailing theme was that the introduction of Europeans and their diseases proved to be a foe too powerful to overcome. I agree with the article in all three of the following themes: tribes varied on how they obtained food, whether a tribe became settled or nomadic was dependent upon their environment, and all Native American tribes were affected by European settlers in some negative way.

Satya and Dasya, the twin horsemen in Hindu mythology. They are depicted in the human body with their head of a horse. From one source they are the children of the sky god and from other the twin son of the sun god, Surya. So they are sometimes linked with the sky and the pre-dawn light. The twins are mostly noted as the physician and the healer of the god. They are the minor gods in Hindu pantheons, Devas but have their crucial role in the many legends.