Native American art

Native American Dream Catchers Trashon Pelton University of Central Oklahoma As a unit in social studies I would investigate the culture of the Native Americans. Native Americans have a wide range of art because of the many tribes that make up the Native American culture. Their art ranges from paintings, jewelry making, sculptures, pottery, masks, drums, totem poles, beadwork etc. I find Native American culture interesting. I am Native American myself and I enjoy learning and finding new things

that period Native Americans were forced to convert to the European-American Culture. Their whole life changed, the way of living, religion, and especially their children’s future. It was wrong of Americans to convert natives into a different society that they saw fit and not letting them express their own culture and treating them as an unworthy society.             Indians had their own way of life and culture before the Spaniards came and started to change things. Native Americans had their own

This painting shows a Native American tribe on a snowy hill. They are watching a train pass by diagonally below them. The party appears to be travelling somewhere together. Several of the individuals are horseback riding while the others are walking. It´s looks like they are fleeing from something, almost as these people are vanishing away from reality. This “Trail of Tears” that they are riding/walking on was the the path that displaced North American Indian tribes from their land east of the Mississippi

glamorized as a land of adventure and promise, hides a dark history. From the early day’s of the gold rush, when the land was first colonised, to the attempted cultural assimilation of the indigenous peoples through residential schools, the people native to the area are still in a struggle of identity and culture, and the resulting effects such as high suicide rates, poverty and drug abuse,. It is through this lens that I will examine the work of Ted Harrison, a prolific English artist who spent the

The diverse recognitions and accomplishments of many famous historical Native American women has created them to be viewed as heroic figures, ultimately causing them to influence and improve Native American history. Mary Musgrove was born in 1700 in Georgia, and was a member of the Cherokee. She was a colonial American translator and negotiator for English and Yamacraw ancestry. She facilitated in the development of Colonial Georgia and became an important negotiator between the Muscogee Creek Indians

painting. He is an original American on his father’s side and a first generation American on his mother’s side. Eric’s mother, Kirsten, was born in Copenhagen and left at the age of 18 when she married an American sailor. She grew up in Copenhagen during Nazi Germany’s occupation. Eric’s father, Norman Sr. is a Comanche from Cache, Oklahoma. Eric's grandfather carried his name from the Fort Sill Reservation. Eric himself grew up on all kinds of different Native American land due to his father's government

Louise Erdrich is a Native American author from Little Falls, Minnesota. Her mother is a Chippewa Indian and her father is German American. Through her writing, she demonstrates native ideas and culture. Native American themes are often present in her works. She shines a light on both perspectives of her background. Some of her works mention reservations in Minnesota and North Dakota which connects to her birthplace and where she grew up. Erdrich did not really look into her native heritage until she

The history of Euro American aggression in Native affairs is a long, imposing and not one to be proud of. It is not just the Pilgrims which arrived on the shores of American in 1620, or subsequent and ever growing throngs of European immigrants to the shore of what would become the United States of America. With the invasion of Europeans into the new world came the European practice of settler colonialism. “European expansion took three forms: networks, the establishment of ongoing systems of

Innovations and Contributions of the United States to the Performing Arts The innovations and contributions of theatre and television over the centuries have changed the world of performing arts forever. These revolutionary changes and gifts to the performing arts occurred in the United States. Contributions of theatre guild, the Shubert brothers, and Native Americans shaped theatre. Philo Taylor Farnsworth, public broadcasting, and MTV are part of the contributions and innovations of television

Elizabeth Sorensen (Be verbs: is, was, were, be, been, being) Mrs. Mohr Luke English 12/12/16 Senior Project Research Essay Native American Style Beadwork The horses jump around screaming, the bulls snorting, and time for the rodeo to start. Before the bareback rider gets on his horse I notice his belt, fabricated with beautiful authentic leather and his last name on the back made of beads, this belt caught my eye because the beads were bright, and vibrant. I have been looking for this perfect