Navajo Essay

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, also known as the Wheeler Howard Act or the IRA, had a major impact on the everyday lives of Native American Tribes that were scattered across the United states. The Indian Reorganization Act provided the means and tools for tribes to form their own governments and constitutions. The IRA stopped the general allotment act that was put into effect by the Dawes of 1887. The Indian Reorganization Act granted the Secretary of Interior a tremendous amount of power

The Navajo began taking Hopi rangeland to graze their livestock, farm fields and water resources, as well as planning constant raids against some of the Hopi villages. The Hopi were then forced to battle the Navajo for their survival in a long period of fighting that would last them until 1824. In 1848 the United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe

Native American Picture Book Directions This is the culminating project for the Native American unit. You will review what you have learned in this unit and create a picture book. You are allowed to use your class notes, on-line notes, text books, books from the public/school library, trustworthy websites, and our classroom discussions to create a picture book about the Lenape. Follow the directions below and read the rubric to do your best work on this project. Good Luck! The cover

As I explored the James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, I came across two paintings that really stood out to me because of their relevance to what we have been learning in class. In muted tones of blue and yellow, Harry Oosahwee’s (Cherokee) One Fall Morning depicts a Cherokee family in a barren rural landscape; animals and plants dot the landscape, and a small wooden house sits on the far right of the painting accompanied by a father, mother, and child

man transforming from man to beast. The belief is known in many tribes including the Mohawk (whose territories once covered upstate New York to southern Quebec) where those who could shift were known as limmikin (sometimes yenaloosi). However, the Navajo tribe is also best known for its shifter beliefs called skinwalkers meaning “he goes on all

cultures around what is called the Four Corners area of the southwest, in southern Utah and Colorado, and northern Arizona and New Mexico. Referred to as "Hisatsinom" by their Hopi descendants, the people are probably better known as "Anasazi," the Navajo name said to mean "ancient enemies." Other, more traditional, Native

and wood that dot the Four Corners region still stand today and date back to about 9,000 CE., but the people who comprised this desert culture did not begin to settle into an agricultural lifestyle until around A.D. 400. The Anasazi, which is a Navajo word meaning “the ancient ones”, likely received corn, squash and beans, which are a prime source of protein, added to their diet and the knowledge to raise them from their southern neighbors in Mexico. Vegetable crops provided a reliable food source

Chapter 5 from On The Rez informs the reader on different cultural as well as historical information regarding Native Americans. Frazier explains historical information that pulls emotion from the reader. Throughout the book, Frazier continues to bring up Native American traditions, conversely, chapter 5 explains situations different tribes went through. Reading chapter 5 in On The Rez has changed my opinion of the reasons behind Frazier’s book. Before reading On The Rez, I had little knowledge Native

Do guns protect us or cause more harm? This has been a question and argument going on for years. No one can still determine the right answer since it’s so opinionated and great views from both sides. Gun control is the when the short and monitor the gun supply for the public. There should be gun control because it will help keep everyone safe. Reason one for gun control is that the united states has more gun ownership than any other modern country in the world and along with that has the highest

Australia is about to make a horrible mistake. The country has (at least, tentatively) earmarked the location of its first nuclear dumping site next to an aboriginal cultural site. And the aboriginal community is speaking out -- calling the proposed site "cultural genocide." Clearly, Australia is trying to repeat the United States' past mistakes and environmental injustices. Can You Put a Price on Cultural Genocide and Death? The traditional lands at the center of the controversy belong to the