Native American Religion

Cotton shirts, breechcloths, and leggings were what men adorned themselves with in the summer. Men wore long coats to stay warm in the winter. Both men and women wore clothing and moccasins decorated with beads and quillwork. The Sioux even had fancy head gear. Men wore head ware to show off or for war or even for warmth. Men decorated their head gear with eagle feathers. The Sioux loved to display their talent in sewing with their clothes.

This group is a derivative from Mohican and Munsee Indians originally from Delaware. Mohicans where deep-rooted to woodlands, but chose to construct their homes close to rivers for a food source in addition to means of transportation. Stockbridge-Munsee tribes have a rich culture in which traditionally men were revered as great warriors while the woman took immense satisfaction in the child rearing, caring for the home, and gardening. They also carry with them the knowledge and skills of fishing, hunting, but also creative aptitudes such as basket weaving and storytelling. Storytelling was one of the many ways they passed on their heritage and culture to the children of the

The Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth A. Fenn is a book that includes the history of Mandan people. Most of the people know this place because of Lewis and Clark, but in this book readers can also learn so many important things about Mandan and combination of important new discoveries. In this book, a reader can examine how an author can go far and beyond the expectation, the way she went into the Mandan’s history. The way author have written this book, makes easier for readers to read because she divides each chapter in many topics.

Muckleshoot descendants depended animal and plant resources and they traveled broadly to harvest these resources. During winter when traveling was hard they sheltered in villages beside the regions watercourses depending on stored food and local resources. In the summer

The Mandan group was a Great Plains tribe, mainly living in North Dakota and South Dakota. The Mandan group ate meat, such as fish and bear, and fruits and vegetables such as corn and squash. The Mandan wore different clothing depending on the sex, such as the males, who wore tunics whereas the women wore dresses, however they both wore leggings. The Mandan lived on the prairies, with streams and rivers.

Near there they can grow the necessary and indigenous plants and hunt the region’s animals to remain strong and healthy. They can make shelter depending on what they are going through. Some domiciles that they have made are the traditional Native American teepee which they only used for their nomadic trips in which they are following their prey, bison and other animals. Their more permanent homes were called earth lodges and were extremely simplistic in design, yet functioned sufficiently. The earth lodges were just holes in the ground with a kind of dome covered with dirt and materials of that type.

They lived in villages of round earthen lodges, but when men went hunting they built teepees because they were easy to construct. Since the Mandans were not nomadic, many other tribes and expeditions came along their path (source A, C). They hosted many of the groups they met, including lewis and Clark (source C). Mandans were very welcoming to new groups, which learned some of their ways and culture.

In fact, according to source D the Mandan Tribe was divided into thirteen clans, but only four were still functioning,these four were the Wax ikEna, the Tamasik, the Prairie Chicken, and the Speckled Eagle. According to source C the Mandan Tribe lived in North Dakota, and earth lodges. Their economy was centered on growing corn,beans,pumpkins,tobacco,hunting buffalo, and trading with nomadic plain tribes. At this time the Mandan culture was one of the richest.

The Malecite lived in the northeast,where have many rivers and great forests.They lived in the valley besides Saint John River,and near to the New Brunswick.They didn’t lived in tepees like other tribes did,but they lived in small round buildings called wigwams.Now,they only build wigwams for fun,and they live in modern houses and apartment buildings just like us.

The Mandan are an indigenous tribe native to North America. The Mandan’s are known for being one of the earliest tribes to live on the great plains of the Midwest. Unlike other plains Indians the Mandan were a settled tribe who lived along the Big Bend of the Missouri River in what is now called North Dakota. While most tribes that lived in the plains were hunter/gatherers who lived a nomadic lifestyle following their food, the Mandan were planters living mostly off their crops. Warriors left once a year in hunting groups to go out into the plains in search for Buffalo, which was not only their major meat source, but was also used for clothing and shelter as well.

Geologically ‘almost’ centered in North America, Mandan Indians occupied “the heart of the world”, present day North Dakota, where the Heart River joins the Missouri River. They were once cradled prosperous human settlements, but Mandan Indians are only mentioned in History when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark spent the winter with them in 1804-1805**. Elizabeth A. Fenn took a trip to North Dakota in 2002, and she had an urge to write about Mandan Indians. For twelve years, she spent time to gather and learn every aspect that can bring Mandan Indians. She learned archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science, anything that could bring Mandan past. Winner

The Plains Cree Tribe lived in Canada, north and west of Lake Superior in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Women wore dresses made out of deerskins, Men wore animal skin leggings,a loincloth which is a small piece of cloth or skin worn between the legs and a belt to hold the loin cloth. They did not speak english, their language is called Montagnais. They lived in teepees.

“Mandan lodges were made from wooden frames covered with packed earth” (Source A). A typical Mandan home was made of packed earth, which consisted of mainly dirt or mud. In addition, to ensure the structure would not come apart the wooden frames would ensure that the structure would stay together. “Traditional Mandan villages consisted of 12 to 100 or more earth lodges” (Source C). The quote explains that the traditional Mandan village could be very small with only 12 homes. On the other hand, the quote displays that a Mandan village could be as big as 100 homes. To summarize, the Mandan people’s earth lodges were made out of basic earth materials like dirt and wood, and villages ranged from being very small to very

The Mandan cultivated their lands and raised crops of corn, beans, sunflowers, squashes, and pumpkins” (Source B). “The Mandan trapped and prepared furs. Tribes that did not grow vegetables often visited… for trade of surplus garden products” (Source D). There were many trade opportunities, as the Mandan men also “...hunted deer and small game and took part in seasonal buffalo hunts” (Source A). A “system of using sign language was developed to facilitate communication between all of the different tribes who inhabited the Great Plains and to facilitate trade with the white trappers and traders” (Source B).

When Europeans first set foot upon the shores of what is now the United States they brought with them a social structure which was fundamentally based around their concept and understanding of Western European Christianity. That the indigenous peoples might already have a thriving civilization, including religious beliefs and practices, that closely paralleled the beliefs and practices of European civilization, was a concept not considered by these early explorers and settlers. This European lack of cultural understanding created tensions, between Native Americans and Europeans, and later between Native Americans and Euro-Americans, that eventually erupted into open warfare and resulted in great bloodshed between cultures. For the Lakota