Native American Cultural Activity Assignment

Cultural Activity Assignment The Native American’s culture event helped me to learn many interesting things about The Native American’s people. It is a culture that carries its ancestors’ traditions a long time. They have laws and roles in which visitors should obey to feel welcome. They manage to make their own school and teach their own curriculum, after bearing the new government’s unfair way of studying. Also, each ceremonial activity has a purpose behind it, even the dances. In addition, Native American used to speak many languages, but some of them died out while others flourished. Moreover, American’s new government had established schools for younger Indians in order to make them forget their native language and religion and adapt …show more content…
On these days, they celebration is open to public, and the members of the tribe share with their visitors many different meals. Their feast days include traditional dances in wonderful clothes, sacred rituals, and cultural activities, and there is also food, arts, and crafts sellers. The dancers’ ceremonial dress, including the feathers, jewelry, and beads all communicate part of the story. Each dance is considered a prayer rather than a performance, and each dance tells a different story and purpose. As such, visitors or outsiders be happy to see them. Moreover, Feast days are not only for celebration of ancient Native American traditions, but also for remembrance of Catholic …show more content…
The government’s goal behind these schools was to make children adapt to and live as modern American society. However, the law of these schools forbid these children from speaking their native language, do not allowed them from practicing their own religion, and forced them to abandon their own identity as Native American. On the other side, they taught them Christianity and Indo-European language instead. However, World War II opens the door for younger Indians to contact with the broader society through military service and work in the munitions industries. Thus, school’s role was changed to focus on Occupational education in order to get jobs in urban America. Consequently, the Native Americans' tribes start to make decisions on issues that affect their own people. Since then, they have emphasized education of their children at schools near where they live. Also, some tribes used to own some schools, in which they add programs of their language revival to improve their cultures’ value. After that, some tribes also constitute or create colleges at their lands in order to educate their young and adult boys and girls for future jobs and to pass on their cultures. In addition, Native Americans’ activities have led major universities across the country to