The Traditional Kayaking: Native American Transportation

              The Inuit tribe has used many natural resources in assisting them to provide food. As they hunt, many of their game don’t just provide food, yet more than that. The Inuit hunters have used sealskin and blubber, from seals they have caught, were used to make clothing, materials for boats, tents, harpoon lines, and fuel for heat and light. Their boats, harpoons lines, clothing, help them gather even more food.

The history of the Native Americans after the arrival of the Europeans is a history of wars, treaties and agreements, and broken treaties and broken agreements. As late as 1994 the governing bodies of tribal communities have signed treaties and agreements with the U.S. (Niles, 1996). As recently as 1999 the U.S. Supreme Court almost overturned treaty rights of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.

Native American culture originated in some parts North America. These countries are known as the United States of America and some parts of Canada. In the United States, there are 6.6 million Native Americans, which form about 2.0 percent of the population (Bureau, 2016). Europe had realized there were about 50 million people already living the “new world” and these people were called Native Americans. Native Americans were originally called Indians, but later through history they formed a new name. These people were called this because of them being native to the “new world” and the American part came after the colonist named the United States. Throughout history, Native Americans believed that using raw material in nature was the best way to provide for their people. Their culture thought no part of an animal should go to waste. They would eat the meat, use the skin for clothing, and make jewelry from the bones. Over the years a lot of their culture and customs were lost due to conforming with society. Their languages were referred to as “Indigenous Languages” because of them being extremely complicated and diverse. Some important factors that help understand the foundation of Native American culture are their rituals/practices, death ceremonies, holidays, family, and stereotypes.

The Makah tribal reservation, held in Washington’s most upper northwest corner, retained tribal power throughout the past into the present. Throughout the centuries, whales have remained a key aspect of the Makah tribal nation identity through cultural values and practices, compared to the other Coast Salish nation tribes who valued fishing salmon and growing camas. The Makah in past centuries actively hunted whales, and crafted goods (such as boxes, blankets, and other items) with whales on them. Due to this, In the late 1900s, the Makah tribal nation sought to restore whaling rights lost during commercial whaling in the nineteenth century.

I am Tisquantum, or as you may know me, Squanto. I am the last of my tribe. I was taken from my homeland, the Americas as a slave to Spain. From Spain, I traveled to England, Newfoundland, and back again to my homeland, near Plymouth. I am now free, but use my land, animal, and English knowledge to assist the new settlers of Plymouth in a multitude of ways; I also use my influence with the natives and the Colonists for my own benefit. Unfortunately, I died an early death, but my legacy remains today, with the national holiday of Thanksgiving (Tindall & Shi, 2013).

The Inuit developed a way of life well-suited to their Arctic environment, based on fishing; hunting seals, whales, and walruses in the ocean; and hunting caribou, polar bears, and other game on land. They lived in tents or travelled in skin-covered boats called kayaks and umiaks in summer, and stayed in

Jefferson was delighted with the deal. At the same time, he had a problem. The Constitution nowhere states that the President has the power to purchase land from foreign countries. Adding the huge Louisiana Territory would drastically change the nation. In the end, Jefferson decided that he did have the authority to purchase Louisiana. The Constitution allowed the president to make treaties. The Senate approved the treaty, and Congress quickly voted to pay for the land.

First, we picked out our boat, and did some "ore yoga," and practiced how to move the paddle. Next, we got out in the water and practiced grouping together at a pole. Then once we starting paddling, we went around Indian Rocks, or also known as Bird Rock. After we went around the rock, we came back to where we started, and had a competition on who could stand on their kayak the longest. I only lasted a few seconds, but it was a lot of

The exploration and settlement of the Americas by the Europeans had devastating effects on the Native Americans. As Europeans began to explore the Americas and form settlements a great majority of them saw the Native Americans as savages and pagans that needed to be civilized. As exploration and settlements expanded the Native American population and culture was decimated by disease, war, loss of land, the exploitation internal feuding among the tribes and enslavement.

It is 1492, and many Europeans are hungry for exploration. The “New World” was seen as the future of trade. But there was one problem; the current way of shipping from Asia was by slow land travel, touching many hands before they reached the European market. With a market that was hungry and the means to travel by sea, Christopher Columbus set sail under the endorsement of queen Isabella of Spain, searching for passage to Asia. What Columbus would find was not Asia, but America. This discovery as time would tell, would not come without consequence. In the age of the new world, exploration, conquest and settlement would have consequences for both the people who were adventuring to these new lands as well

Lake Roosevelt boat rentals allow visitors to explore parts of the lake normally unreachable by car. Visitors should always carry a map because it is impossible to see the entirety of the lake because of its winding nature. Instead, you will be greeted with steppe terrain on

Venture out on paddleboards or kayaks to explore costal inlets, secluded coves and rugged canyon walls.

Animals are so powerful to the Native American culture and are used in most of the ceremonies that they perform. One specific ceremony or gathering animals are really used is at pow wows. Pow wows are a gathering of some of North America's Native people. A pow wow is an event for Native American people, no specific tribe, to meet and dance, sing, socialize, and honor Native American culture. Pow wows are generally a dancing competition, often awarded with prize money. Pow wows vary in length from a one day event, to major pow wows called for a special occasion which can be up to one week long. Pow wows are very sacred to the people, they use a drum which is said to be mother earths heart to call and gather the dancers and spectators. It is said that the people belong to mother earth and since that it said the dancers use mother earth’s materials to create their regalia.

When the Europeans came to explore the Americas, it left the Indians diminishing with the objects they brought over. One of the things the Indians were introduced to were pigs. These creatures reproduced swiftly and happened to be eating fields of the Indians food, such as beans and squash. During the voyage, rats stuck on boats and when they arrived in bunches from multiplying on the boats, they damaged more crops. Also, with the new plants Europeans brought, came new weeds. This caused the crops to be suffocated, meaning fewer ears of corn were furnished. Most Indians were going hungry. Not only were they were suffering of malnutrition from the lack of nutrients, but new diseases struck in the Americas that natives did not have resistance

This month our group is going to split up to cover more land. Lewis was heading up to the great falls. When I retraces the route back to the Yellowstone River. Ordway is leaving me to meet Lewis at the Missouri. Lewis had a encounter with a group of Indians called the black foot. He had to fight them and he put a peace medallion around their necks to show peace to the other Indians. The Shoshone Indians sold us horses. The Shoshone wanted to break up power of other indians so the french traded them weapons like muskets to protect them selfs from getting raided. This is the end of this journey Im going to explore more.