The Kwakiutl Of The North Pacific Coast

In the early 16th century, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan named the largest ocean in the world ‘O Mar Pacífico’ meaning peaceful sea. What Magellan didn’t know is that his arrival would mark a fateful new era for the inhabitants of the pacific and forever disrupt whatever peace they had before. In “The Other One-Third of the Globe,” anthropologist Ben Finney explains the history the habitation of the Pacific islands. He looks at the complete human history of the islands, not just the colonial period, which was unusual but very refreshing.

Although the Kayapo and rubber trappers in the Seringal Bom Futuro area exhibit similarities in their struggle for status, they are ethnically and cultural divided. Unlike the Kayapo, rubber tappers are not united by their ethnical background but rather a way of survival. As a tribe of indigenous people, the Kayapo live in “large autonomous villages scattered on both sides of the Xingu River” (Turner 140). Surrounded by tropical rainforest and grassland,

In Hawaii the marine life has been affected because of many tourist. Ever since tourist have came to hawaii the ocean has become very dangerous to the sea creatures in it. They have negatively affected the ocean in many ways such as polluting the ocean by throwing their plastics, and even oil spills that is occurring in areas from them.

The Inuit people live at a unique location. They live in the far North and into Canada. “There is a Canadian village, named Grise Fjord, just 500 miles from the North Pole” (Sontella 7). The Inuit people

The Coast Salish people are people from Nations and Tribes whose traditional roots are found along the west coast of British Columbia and Washington State. Actually, the Coast Salish region expands from the northern Vancouver Island and Lower Mainland regions to western part of the Washington State. Consequently, most of the Coast Salish First Nations Groups are found in British Columbia and Washington State (“Coast Salish Fast Facts”, p.1). While Coast Salish is a term that was developed by linguists to describe one branch of the huge Salishan language family, it comprises distinct languages. There have been numerous efforts within First Nations communities to keep the distinct Coast Salish languages alive. While there are several distinct Coast Salish languages, they have similar cultures and traditions that make them a distinct people in British Columbia.

However, The Netsilik Eskimo was a unique read in the sense that Balicki did much more than just describe their evolution. He achieved his purpose by focusing primarily on the ways of the Netsilik before the introduction of the firearms, imported clothing, or steel tools. Although it could seem outdated to some readers, it was informative in the area of the lifestyle of the Netsilik that the author was focusing on. If a reader wants to learn more about the recent lifestyle of the Netsilik within the last 50 years, this book does not touch on those subjects. Nevertheless, it was fascinating specifically to me because I was looking to learn about how a group of people could survive in such rigid winter conditions for such a long period. They had very little interaction with white people compared to other tribal groups, so the subject is less touched upon in our education system today. Today, when the early education system in our nation focuses on Native North American tribes, the Netsilik is not included because they were not affected by the famous bills and laws passed by the United States

Haida architecture evolved from artistic necessity. As isolated island people they had few resources to trade. They relied on their reputation for artistic design and excellent craftsmanship amongst the mainland tribes to trade for the resources they needed. This research essay explores the culture, climate and material resources of the Haida Gwaii (Haida People) First Nation of British Columbia, Canada.

The people of Inuit, Yup’ik, Unangan, and other Native Americans Indians have lived in the harshest environment on Earth from Siberia, across Alaska and Canada, and to the East of Greenland along the coast of the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean. From Labrador to the interior of Alaska the Athapaskan, Cree, Innu, and other Native’s people lived in the subarctic region of the land. These people had the ability to depend on their years of knowledge of the sky, ice, ocean, land, and animal behaviors in order to survive. Living in the area that was vast and dealing with seasonal dynamic extremes these Native people of the Artic and Subarctic had a honorable endurance for an millennia of exchanged goods, ceremonies, and shared feasts with neighboring goods that has help them throughout the years.

The Kwakiutl Indian tribe existed before the discovery of North America by the European culture and inhabited the coast of the Pacific Northwest of the United States and British Columbia in Canada. The tribe is rich in tradition and culture and has remained steadfast in their beliefs, history, teachings and artisan skills which have been passed down generation to generation. The artisans in the Kwakiutl tribe mastered the art of creating special ceremonial masks that are not only beautiful and aesthetically interesting to the eye, but also mechanically intriguing in which the masks serve a specific purpose to a theme during different ceremonies that are conducted by tribal specialists during certain times throughout the year.

coastal indians lived west of cascades mountains, lived in permenant vilages near the rivers along the coasts of the pacific ocean and puget

Have you ever wanted to prove somebody or even yourself that you could do better? Have you ever wanted to prove that you were better than what you were or where you came from? That’s what two girls named Kewauna and Marita wanted to do. Kewauna wanted to better her life with the OneGoal program, she took full advantage of her education by getting to know her professors and making them remember her, and anything she struggled with she made sure to study and pay extra attention to. Marita also wanted to take advantage of her education instead of telling her mom that she couldn’t handle the KIPP Academy she toughed through it, even with a 10 hour school day she will go home

For centuries the Nooksack tribe located in Northwest Washington has been dependent on the wilderness for survival. Originally defined as a horticultural community, the Nooksack people have used their knowledge the land to support their daily necessities of food and shelter. Salmon runs in the nearby Nooksack River, named after the local tribe, continue to be a steady source of protein for the tribe up to this day. However, this way of life has lately been threatened by the diminishing glaciers of nearby Mount Baker. In order to understand the significance this event has to the culture of the Nooksack tribe, we must first look at how their culture has changed in the past, how it would possibly change in response to the glacial thinning and what the reemergence of Mount Baker may mean for future Nooksack generations.

This paper describes the Sea Bear Transformation Mask, created by Don Svanvik in 2000, and how it reflects Northwest Coast Indian art and culture, specific to the Kwakiutl tribe. A transformation mask is a large mask with hinged shutters that, when open, reveal another mask. Audrey and Alan Bleviss gave this mask to the Montclair Art Museum in 2005. The medium consists of red cedar, cedar bark, copper, pigment, and string. In the Montclair Art Museum, the mask is displayed in its open form.

Perceptions of the lands and waters of the Klamath are rooted in cultural memory and the collective identity of community (Smith 1997). These shared histories and identities have the potential to serve as a unifying force within some communities, particularly when a group is marginalized or alienated from their land and livelihoods (Horangic, Berry and Wall 2016; Kosek 2006). Tribes in both the upper and lower basin have been alienated from subsistence and commercial salmon fishing because of the laws against tribal takings, and in more recent years, due to disease and fish die offs(Most 2006). This has not diminished the importance of fishing, but instead strengthens the necessity of salmon fishing and ceremonies such as the Annual Return of the C’waam (sucker fish) Ceremony of the Klamath Tribe (Klamath Tribes Annual Events 2004).

Most believe that Native American live deep within temperate forests, but one tribe lives within a much colder and frigid climate. This tribe is known as the Inuits. Inuit means “The Real People” (Santella 5). A group of Inuits traveled to the Americas from Asia, and they went towards the north pole. They eventually settled in the Arctic regions and began to thrive (7). They are widely dispersed throughout the Siberian, Alaskan, Canadian, and Greenland regions (6). The Inuits have an interesting history, lifestyle, and religion.