Native American Origins: Article Analysis

This is the culminating project for the Native American unit. You will review what you have learned in this unit and create a picture book.

Popular culture has shaped our understanding and perception of Native American culture. From Disney to literature has given the picture of the “blood thirsty savage” of the beginning colonialism in the new world to the “Noble Savage,” a trait painted by non-native the West (Landsman and Lewis 184) and this has influenced many non native perceptions. What many outsiders do not see is the struggle Native American have on day to day bases. Each generation of Native American is on a struggle to keep their traditions alive, but to function in school and ultimately graduate.

The main point of this article is to talk about the findings of the 59th Unnamed Cave in Florida. This cave is interesting because there are very few sites in Florida. This was only one out of the two sites that had rock art in them that is in the state of Florida. I really like this article because instead of just talking about what they see in the petroglyph, the authors actually highlighted the engravings so that it is easier for the readers to see what they are talking about. The other articles I have read only talked about the engraving but they did not really highlighted the engraving which makes it very hard for the reader to see what they were talking about. Another good point of this article is that they showed a comparison between the older cave engraving versus the new engraving. By adding this information it help the reader understand the difference between the two time frame that the engraving was marked. One of the things that I wished this article would have is the radio carbon dating section. The other articles I read about all have some type of radio carbon dating to try to date when the site were occupied. This article only talked about the ceramic sherds that they

From as early as the time of the early European settlers, Native Americans have suffered tremendously. Native Americans during the time of the early settlers where treated very badly. Europeans did what they wanted with the Native Americans, and when a group of Native Americans would stand up for themselves, the European would quickly put them down. The Native Americans bow and arrows where no match for the Europeans guns and cannon balls. When the Europeans guns didn’t work for the Europeans, the disease they bought killed the Native Americans even more effectively.

People have been living in the Americas for thousands of years. Only fairly recently, the past few hundred years, have foreigners begun to arrive and drastically disrupt the way of life of the aboriginal population. The situation has become so severe that a population that was one believed to be numbered in the millions, was at one point reduced to as few as 220,000 in 1910, and entire tribes have been either irretrievably warped or have disappeared altogether. While Native American Indians have almost completely recovered population-wise, they will never catch up to the rest of the world, and their culture can never fully recuperate. At the time the United States was settled by Europeans, it was abundantly populated by dozens of

Culture, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary is stated as “The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief and behavior that dpends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations. The customary beliefs, social forms and material traits of a racial, religious or social group. The set shared attitudes, values, goals and practices that characterizes an institution or organization. The set of values, conventions or social practices associated with a particular field, activity or societal characteristic.” Of these four definitions, I shall be focusing on the second one to discuss what makes up the culture of American Indians.The culture of the various tribes that made up the Native Americans is one of close knit families, highlyspiritual peoples and living together as one with the land they lived on. They believed in spirits, worshiping and honoring them. Some settled into single locations while others were nomadic, but all had a focus on working with the land around them. Because there are so many varying tribes that make up Native

The article “American Native Studies Is For Everyone” by Duane Champagne, which is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. This article addresses about some various issue between Indian and Non Indian Scholars that who should be studying about Indians, how the media distribute the information about Indians and the importance of American Native Studies.

This article was talking about the uniqueness of the 11th Unnamed Cave and it tries to theorized on how the site was used. The article did a good job of explaining the why there are so many mud balls on the ceilings. The authors tries to show both supporting and disproving that the mud balls were there is because they were used to hunt bats. They also use radio carbon dating to try to get close to the dates that the sites were occupied. The articles showed many hypothesize and they were able to make claims to help them prove their points base of off the evidence that was found at the cites. While there were some good parts of the article there were some that I was questioning. Like how did they see some of the images from the petroglyph because I tried looking it from multiple angle and I was not able to see the images that they were talking about. Also, the there were a conflict between the radio carbon dating dates and the artifacts that was found dates. For example, the carbon dating material said that the time that the cave was used is around the Mississippian period. However, some of the artifacts that was found indicate that there were traces of Early to Middle Woodland people are there. Human behaviors varies and it is very hard to pin-point what something

This message to the Natives is coming from the "Master of Life" who claims to be the creator of "all that thou hast seen on earth" which means that to the Natives this Master of Life is a very important and authoritative figure. Due to the fact that the Master of Life is such an authoritative figure to the Natives, the things that he proclaims are not only seen as true but also very important. The Master of Life thens reminds the natives that of the good things that they had before the white people came, and that they could have those things again if they did what he said. All of these things contributed to the resonating of the message throughout the tribes.

The third article will report on the research results of three planned seasons of fieldwork (either Spring/Summer or Fall 2018, 2019, and 2020) at the late Pleistocene paleontological site Chivacabe, Huehuetenango, Guatemala (Western Highlands), and will place it in the larger context of Paleoamerican activity within Middle America. In the 80s, non-prismatic obsidian artifacts, including a lanceolate fluted point (Figure…), were found at the site but without archaeological control. Interestingly, one of the obsidian items is a very small piece of green Pachuca obsidian from Central Mexico (Figure…). Although not from a known context, the possibility that early Paleoamerican occupants at the site had access to Central Mexican obsidian is

I have read three articles titled, “Digging out a lost city’s secrets”, “Skeleton dating back to the ice age sheds light on Native American origins”, and “Traditional turns into trendy in Guatemala’s finest clothing shops”. “Digging out a lost city’s secrets” is about a group of mexican scientists that discovered three chambers at the end of a tunnel beneath the “ancient mountain city of Teotihuacan.” “Skeleton dating back to the ice age sheds light on Native American origins” is about the skeleton of a teenage girl found by divers, underwater along with some extinct animal skeletons. “Traditional turns into trendy in Guatemala’s finest clothing shops” is about various types of clothing traditionally worn in Guatemala gaining popularity worldwide. I recommend reading “Skeleton dating back to the ice age sheds light on

The second significant fossil find was dated by using the ages of lava flow above and below the fossils. She uses the bone structure to describe how the specimen would move about. The evidence is pretty believable because the author offers logical support. The support was also diverse and well thought out it being clear none of the information was plagiarized. My Anthropology teacher from last semester at UTSA has gone into detail about our different ancient ancestors. The author didn’t have a counter argument she did say that there is some controversies behind a fossil find included in the article. It is a little hard to tell when the author is talking about the two main fossil finds or similar ones. She does have good support for her argument even though it is a little hard to tell what she is referring

The article I chose is about the effects the natural disaster has had on Puerto Rico. The island is struggling to pick up the pieces after the storm. The power failures are significantly impacting their day to day lives because they have very limited to no access to their accounts. They cannot use the internet, or actually, anything ran by power. They are operating on a cash basis to survive. People have to be frugal with the supplies they currently have. Grocery stores are running out of supplies; people are waiting in lines for hours to get some bread and soda. They do not want to spend all their cash on hand because once it is all spent they will have nothing till they can get money from an ATM or bank.

The article I chose was “How Life and Luck Changed Earth’s Minerals” by Roberta Kwok on Wired.com. Recently, geologists have been wondering if the evolution of minerals is a predictable outcome due to Earth’s chemistry or if the evolution is a result of random chance (Kwok, 2015). They have also been wondering that if we found a planet similar to Earth, would the minerals and gemstones match up with our own. Mineral physicist Robert Hazen and his colleagues at the Carnegie Institute of Washington’s Geophysical Laboratory decided to tackle these questions in their research, and their findings have given us insight into the nature of mineral evolution.

The one that I liked the best was the article called “The Religious Side of Peasant Protest in Pre-Modern Japan – the Ikkō-ikki” for many reason, one being that is was an excellent article that gave a very good overview of the different aspects given in the article it not very detail which help it not become confusing with too much detail it’s a good article for a beginners article (as an introduction to pre Modern Japan unit). Second reason why I liked this article is because is that it’s broken into paragraphs, There isn’t long paragraphs, they are generally divided evenly, throughout the article, giving a good amount of facts and information. Lastly I found it a good beginners reading, I think a person that doesn’t know anything about