The Wichita Tribe

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are indigenous of parts of the Southeastern United States. They have members all the way south as Georgia and are spread out across the Appalachian mountain trail in both North and South Carolina and stretching across into Tennessee. The land in which each tribe is from has a particular way is shaping how they live and defines the important aspects of that culture. In the Eighteenth Century the Cherokee Indians were one of the most heavily populated Indian societies in the Southeastern United States. These Indians have many unique political and spiritual ideas and world views.

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.

The Mohawk tribe was fierce. They were located in upstate New York to Southern Quebec and Eastern Ontario. The people of the Mohawk tribe lived in villages of longhouse, these were made out of wood as the frames with animals fur and elm tree’s bark. The would eat the fish and any animals they caught with their weapons including bow and arrows, knives, and clubs, also they ate a lot of corn, beans, and squash, that's what they grew. The leader of tribes name is Thayendangea also known as Joseph Brant, he made the rules. The Mohawk’s had to fight their neighboring tribes for their dominance of the beaver fur trade, and they won. They did not really have a good relationship with other tribes. Overall the Mohawk tribe was warlike, they

The Lakota tribe, also known as the Teton Sioux, is the largest tribe among the seven major Sioux tribes on the Great Plains in North America. After the introduction with the horse after the seventeenth century, the Lakota devision emerged. They quickly expanded west to Rocky Mountain and north to the Great Plains. The Lakota people speaks Lakota language, one of the three languages that belong to the larger Siouan language family.

In this paragraph you will experience, tradition about the Mohawk tribe. The Mohawk tribe ate berries, pigs, dear, herbs, and fish. The men wore breech clothes and leggings. The women wore

(“Define Matriarchy at Dictionary.com”) Every small village contained over fifty log and mud huts centered amongst the town square, which was referred to as the Council House, a place where communal meetings and ceremonies would take place. (“Cherokee Indian History”) They made beautiful works of art which included: wooden baskets, dye, pottery, beadwork, and made elaborate Star quilts. (Parker, Thomas V. 11-12) In order to make such goods, the Cherokee Indians utilized the resources of nature efficiently because they knew the cost of not doing so would be great in the near future. They asserted a certain reverence for nature and took it upon themselves to try their best to preserve and allow their land of the Southern Appalachia to remain prosperous for as long as possible. Cherokee Indians were hunters, makers of many goods, care takers of nature, and traders. The Shawnee Indians were primarily found in West Virginia and speak a Southern dialect of the Great Lakes which is Algonquin. The men of the tribe took to hunting, gathering of food, and were warriors of their given tribe. The women tended to various needs of the tribe, as that cooked, made clothing, wove baskets, scrapped and tended to hides. Religiously the Shawnee Indians paid homage to Moneto, who is a supreme presence who ruled the universe as a whole and dispersed blessing on those who earned his approval and those who did not faced loss and heartache. The

The apache women made all the clothes, and they did most of the work at home. The apache women wore long skirts, blouses made of leather, and their skirts and blouses matched. The apache women always matched, and they always wore their hair down, there hair is very long. Another thing they did was put some kind of oil in their hair to make it extra shiny. Now men on the other hand would wear a breechcloth, and they would wear a belt to hold

The clothing of the Chippewa Indians was oftentimes made of animal skin. The tendons were taken from the animals and used as thread for the clothing that the Chippewa wore. The men wore a long piece of animal skin or cloth between their legs and belted it at the hips. The flaps then covered the front and behind of the men. Leggings were worn by both women and men and sometimes they were covered with fancy fringe. The leggings were created from animal skin and therefore were quite insulating during the cold winters. Women sometimes wore long skirts over the top of their leggings. Women wore a thin blouse, basically like a poncho, that included a cut out at the neck for the head to go through. Fancy aprons were worn on special occasions.

One of the activities that the Shawnee tribe does is trapping animals, the men of the tribe complete this activity. They do this because they rely on the environment around them to survive, they trap to get food for the tribe. The women oversee making clothing out of the trapped animals fur, the type of clothing the women make depends on the season. The men would wear deerskin loincloth, the women would wear a skin apron in the summer. They also make moccasins out of the animal’s fur and decorate them with bead and feathers. During the winter they would make heavier clothing items to keep warm.

Sports teams should not worry about changing their name, mascot, and pride. The cost would be outrageous. The Washington Redskins are a big NFL team. Auerbach states, “Changing the name of these well-established teams would not be easy . . . they would have to spend millions on marketing in an effort to keep long-time fans and attract new one.” Companies would not be willing to spend millions of dollars on a name change. All of the merchandise would have to be changed, it would be very time consuming. According to the article, written by Auerbach, it is stated that “The Seminole tribe . . . has for generations played a major role in Florida’s maintaining an extensive partnership with Florida State University.” The Seminole tribe gets a special

The Kootenai Tribe historically inhabited Northwestern Montana, Northern Idaho, Eastern Washington, and parts of Southern British Columbia. In this vast region, the indigenous people were; hunters, gathers, and fisherman. The tribe is made up of six bands, and is usually spilt up from there into the Lower and Upper Kootenai Tribe. The Upper Kootenai were traditionally forest and mountain people who traveled to the prairies to hunt buffalo (Pritzker 263-264).The Lower Kootenai were more tied to water, and primarily harvested fish. These Lower Kootenai bands constructed a unique sturgeon-nosed canoe, which is only found among this tribe, and in parts of Asia (Kootenai Canoe). The Kootenai’s lived a seminomadic lifestyle. They had permanent winter villages near good

The Lakota are a sub-nation from the Sioux of South Dakota, however, they are originally from near the great lakes of Minnesota. According to the South Dakota State Historical Society Education Kit the story of their migration to the plains goes a such, “one day a man appeared, and told them to travel northward. The Lakota obeyed, and began the journey north. On their way they got cold, and the sun was too weak to cook their food. Two young men had a vision, and following its instructions, they gathered dry grasses and struck two flint stones together, creating a spark and making fire. There were seven groups of relatives traveling together. Each group took some of the fire, and used it to build their own fire, around which they would gather.” From that moment on, they were known as the Seven Council Fires, or Oceti Sakowin.

They considered themselves the “Real People”. Men would wear breechcloths, leggings, and moccasins and the women of the tribe would wear skirts and moccasins. The women farmed and harvested crops such as corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers. The men hunted, killed deer, bear, wild turkeys, small mammals, and they also fished. Some common dishes that were eaten in the tribe would have been cornbread, soups, and stews. The men and women of the tribe could be leaders of the tribe to make laws for the tribes. There were white leaders and they would lead the tribe in times of peace while the red leader would lead in times of war. The holy man could be a man of women. The Cherokee men and women had specific roles to play within their tribes as well. Just like the Catawba’s the men and women had certain jobs to do concerning who prepared the food. Other than that men and women were pretty equal especially in their

Absentee Shawnee is a tribe of Shawnee people and belongs to three federally recognized tribes. They lives in the Eastern of the USA - Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and other surrounding states. Historically, they emigrated from Canada to Florida, then Mississippi River to the Eastern Coast. Now, they stay in Shawnee, Oklahoma, specifically Cleveland County and Pottawatomie County. Absentee Shawnee Tribe has about 3,050 members. They follow Blood Quantum Criteria, which requires the members have a minimum of a quarter documented Absentee-Shawnee blood by the setting of the tribal constitution.

The Choctaw Indians of Alabama are a band of Indians that managed to remain behind in the outer regions of north Mobile and south Washington counties after their tribal lands were given up to the United States in 1830. Beginning in 1830, the most significant period of their removal from their homelands, the majority of the Choctaw tribe was forced along the Trail of Tears settling on reservation lands in Mississippi and Oklahoma. A small group of about 45 families avoided removal by settling and hiding out in the woods surrounding the small communities of Citronelle, Mt. Vernon, and McIntosh.