Native American Renaissance

these tribes, including the Five Nations of the Iroquois, were farmers or practiced horticulture, the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, which produced a matrilineal system where farms were passed down from mother to daughter.  The European Renaissance was a period where merchants from republic city-states, where citizens were allowed to vote, bought goods from Persia, China, etc. and then sold them throughout Europe, creating an ideology of civic humanism where the rich elite encouraged service

deemed acceptable for them to be allowed to play. Working class women started to compete professionally in rowing competitions; they played crocket and played lawn tennis. The American pastime of baseball was well on its way and all though baseball had a huge racial division as to who could play mainly African Americans not being accepted, but they developed their own league and contrary to the belief that Jackie Robinson was the first pro ball player there was another before him by the name of

evidence where information can be verified. It also does not help their case that we tend to focus on history that are agricultural but most importantly, has resonance with the modern world, which Nomads, both are not (Dickinson, January 2017). Other Natives like the Inca in South America had no writing methods but meticulously kept record through tying knots on strings (Daniels/ Hyslop, p. 145). As people tend to look for formal writings

practice in which an individual gives up his/her own culture to conform to the dominant culture, being the American culture. During the 19th and 20th centuries, people began immigrating to the Unites States from regions in Northern and Southern Europe which include groups such as Jews and Italians. By residing in the U.S they began to amalgamate into the melting pot, thereby adopting the American lifestyle.

continent, there were native peoples living in communion with their environment and, very often, each other. Their religious practices were interwoven with their daily lives and religion held a prominent, significant place within their culture. The intrusion by Europeans into this peaceful world had profound effects on the Indians, especially their religious practices. What had been a peaceful, harmonic lifestyle changed dramatically that fall of 1492. The Europeans entered the native people's world

bird feathers, and cacao to the capital as tribute. Tributes are goods given to rulers as an act of submission or in order to receive protection. 2. Matriarchal: A matriarchal society is a society governed by women. The Iroquios, five different native american nations banded together by a man named Hiawatha, ruled through a matriarchal system. Power was inherited through female lines of authority. These women had an influence in local councils. It is unusual that these women played such a significant

This wasn’t done on a whim, or just to make King George angry. In the Declaration of Independence, the delegates catalogue the dozens of abuses that the British monarchy inflicted upon the colonies. The American citizens did not see ideas like taxation without representation, trade restrictions, and quartering as fair and just concepts. They decided that enough was enough, and revolted against the most powerful empire on Earth. All the redcoats in the world

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, America’s first Female Native American writer and poet, exemplifies a unique multicultural influence in her writing as a result of her intermarried parents. Robert Dale Parker (2009), in his paper “Contemporary Anticolonialist Reading and the Collaborative Writing of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft,” describes her controversial writings “as representing the cacophonous medley of internal contradictions that she lived in” (p.52). Specifically, that of her poem Pensive Hours

2 Outline and Terms 1. The Native American Experience Before the arrival of the Europeans to the Americas, the Americas already had a large number of people living there in empires or hunting and gathering groups. a. First Americans i. 1st movement of people into the Americas: from Asia who went over the Bering Strait (see terms) by land during the Ice Age ii. 2nd movement: due to the melting of ice, the bridge was no longer available, so people migrated to the Americas by water across the same

Americas * By 8,000 BCE, they reached to Tierra del Fuego * 3 waves came from Asia, 1 from Polynesia (to Easter Island) around 300 AD, 1 from Scandinavia (Norsemen) around 900 AD #2: What are 2 characteristics of Neolithic American culture? * Clovis tip spear and climate change killed off most large animals (woolly