Native American Renaissance

My Totem Pole A totem pole is a tall log carved mainly by the indigenous people of Alaska and British Columbia. The poles tell stories that have been passed down from generation to generation as legends and myths. However, that is not the only type of totem pole, there are totems that tell the carver’s history, their family’s history and some are even used to honor the dead. Additionally, some totem poles were made to show respect to an important tribal member. Totem poles feature animals and

cold winter of 1704 and an English settlement that was in the mid Connecticut River valley, became a place for a great intercultural, international conflict. Deerfield was raided by French and Native forces in an ongoing struggle with the English for control of native lands and resources. Native American peoples; French, English, and Africans; soldiers, ministers, farmers and traders; men, women, and children; they were all affected by these conflicts. Deerfield had been prepared for this attack

metaphor in which the author describes their conception of useful and useless: they're mostly inclined towards the wrong stuff, but a good offering will almost overlap the vices, even though they always come first, just as is usual with some Native American people. It shows that it is personal and evaluative because they're criticizing their habits and moral values. Evidently, the importance of ancestors and Indian characteristics such as tradition, family, language, alcohol (this characteristic

My Totem Pole A totem pole is a colossal log carved mainly by the indigenous people of Alaska and British Columbia. The poles tell stories that have been passed down from generation to generation as legends and myths. However, that is not the only type of totem pole, there are totems that tell the carver’s history, their family’s history and a few are even used to honor the dead. Additionally, multiple totem poles were made to show respect to an important tribal member. Totem poles feature

my relatives who are Native Hawaiians have told me stories of how cultural and historic sites, hundred in number, have been bulldozed to make way for hotel and golf course development. Many others have been turned into tourist attractions and are desecrated in their use and misuse. These include heiau (burial grounds) or ancient temples, house sites, fishing shrines, ceremonial platforms and agricultural sites. All of these acts take place at the expense and pain of Native Hawaiians who are struggling

Already preoccupied with domestic issues such as the Christian Reformation, England did not seem to aspire to yet compete with Spain for the American colonies. Overall allowed the Americans to build up their new homes. An example of a geographical advantage that affected the U.S would be the Mississippi River as the abundance of water as well as the ability to irrigate plantations/ crops kept the colonies well fed and with a steady supply of water.   This statement is very amusing as it displays

The Way to Rainy Mountain is an autobiographical work written by Pulitzer Prize Winner N. Scott Momaday in 1969 during the Native American Renaissance. It depicts the journey of Momaday’s Kiowa ancestors from their their emergence to decline as a Plains Indian Culture. This work combines tribal, personal, and familial stories about the Kiowa Indians. These stories are told in three distinct voices. The first voice is the voice of the Kiowa oral tradition. This voice illustrates the Kiowa myths to

Symbols of the Hopi Pottery When most people look at a piece of pottery the first thing that comes to mind is the significance of the symbols and the stories behind these symbols. There are some symbols of Hopi pottery that have stories behind them and some that are symbols of either lost significance or the story is unknown. Some of the symbols we think of as symbols, are really the potters own design. Most people make the mistake that symbols and designs are the same thing, but in fact

In the short story “Totem” by Thomas King, it is very evident that the relationship between the totem pole and the museum workers is a rather negative relationship. The relationship is depicted in “Totem” as an overpowering, authoritative, and entitled relationship. The relationship between the totem pole and the museum workers is depicted through the museum workers such as Mrs. Hill, Walter Hooton, and the other worker’s reaction and constant need to remove the totem pole. Ultimately, the totem

in their pieces “ a drug called tradition” and “ the women hanging from the thirteenth floor window” they talk about individuals relationships with their own future and past and the relationships of others. Sherman Alexie speaks about how native americans relate to their history by shifting from the present to the past, using the same speaker for both settings. The short story is told by victor, who remembers a time he and two other boys on his reservation got high. Throughout the story the boys