Plains Indian Culture

Janet Spector eloquently explains the archaeological process and creates a narrative which can be effortlessly read by the public rather than a dry text meant to remain in academia. Spector’s approach by writing What This Awl Means is comparable to Ella Deloria’s in Waterlily, who “hoped to humanize anthropological discourse on Plains Indians culture and refocus the ethnographic lens on the lives of women in Dakota culture.” (Cotera 53).

Imagine beautiful yellow and red leaves fluttering about, and men and women working together to collect wild rice from the lake, naming rituals, sowing, and honor. That is what the Sioux tribe did during the early 1800s when Lewis and Clark explored the region. This tribe lived along the minnesota- Wisconsin border, they believed in honored and spirits. Overall, they were skill at hand, and trad was probable fantastic for the Sioux. Most of the Sioux clothing was showered with beads, so they got a lot of pratus sewing and became vary skilled.

Artwork has been an imperative part of Black culture, and many artist share their inspirations coming from African origins. From the beginning of slave societies to present day, African America artwork has contributed to large parts of United States artistic collection. Beginning in the early 1600 to 1800 “black art took the form of small drums, quilts, wrought-iron figures and ceramic vessels in the southern United States. These artifacts have similarities with comparable crafts in West and Central Africa.” The significance of the

However, trading for beads provided Indigenous people with a new material. By using beads, Ruth Cuthand both provides a visual representation for colonialism, while also showing how Indigenous people and cultures have survived in spite of colonialism.

Over time, the power that Native women held with in their tribe has unfortunately digressed. During the age of exploration Native women have played key roles in the western fur trade. Native women assisted the fur traders by being liaison between the Europeans and Natives. This role was fundamental in strengthening trade increasing the economic stability of the post. They acted as guides for the European traders who often found themselves in dangerous and unfamiliar territory. Finally, they provided an intimate relationship for the European traders, and played a pragmatic role as a domesticated wife. However in order to fully understand the magnitude of the

The Chippewa believe that they were given a birch tree from the Wenebojo tribe as a gift. The bark of the tree was then split into multiple pieces to use. In the springtime, the bark softens and is more flexible, and the art can begin. The first form of art most common in the Chippewa tribe is called mazinibaganjigan, or birch bark biting. They took a very thin piece of birch bark and bent it in half. Then they used their teeth to bite intricate patterns into the wood. When they were finished, they could unfold the bark and the pattern would be perfectly

After meeting the Europeans, the women wore wrap-around skirts and the men wore colorful shirts. These items were hand sewn,and the material had a diamond pattern. Everyone wore handmade leather moccasins, usually made from tanned deer or cow hide. Women would also wear some type of beaded Native American jewelry or ribbons in their hair,and the men would wear a wide-brimmed hat. Choctaw believed that flat heads were attractive.

Native Americans are the indigenous people of the North American continent and the cultural traditions and art forms are unique to these regional groups. The people in these groups have several names and the first adopted name Indian by Spanish explorers proved erroneous, however, now accepted names include either American Indian or Native American. I will refer to these groups as Native Americans or by their tribal affiliation. There are diverse tribal groups original to North America who lived on the Great Plains, in the Woodlands, on the Northwest coast, and in the Southeast or the Southwest regions. Various Native American tribes created art forms such as the Apache, Cherokee, Pueblo, and Hopi communities. In my research, I found that the Navajo also contributed in many ways to Native American art through making jewelry, beading, drawing, painting, sculpting, carving, and weaving. These art works provided their tribe notoriety with countless “years of experience through their creativity and sense of design”, lending to an “astonishing volume and variety of artwork which has created a lasting legacy”, per NativeAmerican-Art.com (2010). Understandably, art comes in various forms and from various cultures, but the Native American Navajo tribe contributed vastly and merits mention for its beautiful contributions. Therefore, I

A wigwam is not portable, so it is just left where it is built when winter comes. Activity 2:___Hunting, farming, and gathering___________________ Description: The Shawnee Indians are hunters, farmers, and gathers. They like to hunt and trap fish, eel, beaver, otter, turkey, duck, bear, moose, deer, elk, and caribou. They also farm a lot, some things they farm are maize, squash, beans, and pumpkin. They gather things such as nuts, berries, scallops, oysters, quahogs, and soft clams.

Rug and blanket weaving is among the most popular artistry from the Navajo people. Weaving dates back to the

The Paiutes are a Native American Indian tribe “made up of several bands throughout the western part of the United States, also known as the Great Basin region” (Ruby 222). The Northern Paiutes populated areas of Oregon, California, Nevada, and Idaho; and inquiries as to how the environment might have affected their interactions, migration, and social behavior is a topic of great interest in Oregon archeology. The Northern Paiutes “who practiced the ancestral lifeway well into the 19th century, were heirs to an extremely ancient cultural tradition” (Aikens 13). Historical archeological studies found that these groups often “made tools, gathered plants, and hunted animals of similar if not identical kinds” (Aikens 13). Through these similar identities,

Ojibway Indian men usually wore breechcloths and leggings. The women wore dresses and kept their hair in neat braids. Their shoes were called moccasins. They were made out of deer or moose hide. Customarily, they wore leather headbands with feathers in the back. The Ojibway Indians made pictures, belts, purses, and other objects out of beads. They loved to use wampum beads in their artwork. Wampum beads are purple and white beads made from shells. The Ojibway Indians make beadart by sewing the beads onto leather so they can be placed individually or sewn into strips. They make the strips by stitching the beads into a string. This is usually done by hand or sometimes with a bowloom. Beadart takes years to master and is very time consuming for the Ojibway Indians. The Ojibway also made dream catchers out of sticks and feathers. They believed that the dream catchers would protect them from bad dreams.

The tribe lived in thatched houses before which were grass huts shaped like beehives. They had a communal way of life in their permanent habitations. When men went to hunt they build temporary shelters from buffalo hides. Before the modern times, the men dressed in breech clothes and occasionally putting on leather chaps to act as leg protection. Their hair was cut in traditional Mohawk or complete shaving of hair and wore single long tassel of hair on the top of the head. Women kept long hair styled in a bum or braid. They wore wrap around skirts and ponchos. In the modern times traditional dress and face paints are only reserved

Have you ever met someone who was kind, humorous, very likable yet extremely lazy? Well, let me introduce Rip Van Winkle. In my opinion Rip truly “beat to his own drum,” he was a man who much preferred fishing, hunting squirrels and pigeons, visiting his friends at the Inn, reading ghost stories, fly kites, and playing marbles with the children in town instead of working a labor job. Consequently, since Rip refused to help and he was tired of his nagging wife Dame he decided to stroll into the woods of the Catskill Mountains one day with his lazy dog named Wolf where he fell asleep for 20 years, leaving behind his wife to care for everything until she passes away. In conclusion, I think Rip was very lazy, but I really liked he was a kind, good

The long history between Native American and Europeans are a strained and bloody one. For the time of Columbus’s subsequent visits to the new world, native culture has