The Kwakiutl Indians are a North American tribe who were famous the there Potlatch Parties. Their name represents “those who speak Kwakwala.” which is there language. They live by the shore but sadly have to move from their sacred place because of the Europeans who took over there space. They have many weird and interesting traditions that I will tell you about later.…
The Chumash Tribe settled AD 700 along the Santa Barbara Bay. After Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo explores California in 1542 and made the first contact to the tribe as a European, he claimed the land for Spain. Two hundred years later, in the year of 1770, the first Spanish people came to the Chumash territory and about twenty years later the Spaniards took the first Chumash people as slaves. In addition to that, many Chumash people were forced to move to missions in San Luis Obispo, Mission La Purisima, Mission Santa Ynez, Mission Santa Barbara and San Buenaventura. After Mexico won the independence from Spain in 1821, The Chumash Revolt held on for many years and in 1824 the last survival rebels were indentured to Mexicans.…
The Anasazi Tribe started their civilization in 100 B.C., but it ended in 1300 A.D. They started developing in the drylands of southwest America. The Anasazi Tribe lived near Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico or where they all meet up (The Four Corners of the United States). They lived more out west, so it was dryer and not as humid as the midwest. There is not a lot of green where they lived, so they couldn’t plant a lot of crops that we can here in the midwest.…
Chaco Canyon was the place where the Anasazi culture thrived. The origin of the meaning Anasazi comes from an ancient Navajo phrase referring to the people who occupied the four corners region. The Anasazi are some of the ancestors of the current Native American indians of the same area. The Anasazi lived in the Chaco Canyon area in the second Pueblo Phase.…
In contrast to the Greek’s wealth of myths but lack of evidence, in Anasazi communities in the American Southwest during the twelfth century CE there is direct evidence of cannibalism, but no myths containing the subject. This may be due to quickly evolving environments and situations as well as possibly feelings of fear associated with these changes. The Ute Lands Archaeological Project excavated three residential pithouses (features 3, 13, and 15) from Cowboy Wash in the Mesa Verde Region from 1992-1998, finding the disarticulated remains of at minimum seven individuals between the three features. In feature three, a minimum of five individuals were discovered, differing in sex and age, containing both an eleven-year-old as well as an old…
The intended audience of the article “ The Indians' Old World:Native Americans and the Coming of European”, are the general public and historians because the article shows how a lot of people give more importance of American history after Columbus rather than before Columbus and criticize how historians know much less history prior to arrival of columbus in 1492. For instance, the author Neal Salisbury states that “historians now recognize that Europeans arrived, not in a virgin land, but in one that was teeming with several million people (435)”. 2. The author’s main argument is that there was densely populated society before European arrival, how certain patterns and processes originated before and after contact with the Europeans.…
This tribe was one of the oldest and largest in North America, stretching from before 1000 C.E to modern times. During this time, the Anasazi have evolved from a nomadic culture to a sedentary, agricultural based society. Their origins, history, culture, religion and art all…
The Navajo (Dine) and Pueblo are very alike and very different. The Navajo home’s are called hogans which from what i have learned are dome shaped homes made of mud,branches, and leaves when the Pueblo’s homes are adobe homes called Pueblo’s. The owner’s of the home enter thru a whole that has a ladder which helps them keep out unwanted guests. Cool right? Well you will never believe how they farm.…
Comanche Indians The Comanches, great horsemen who dominated the southern plains, played a major role in the history of central America. Comanches were originally a part of the northern shoshone. The Shoshone and Comanche even have identical languages. Comanches have moved multiple times like the move away from shoshone tribe or moving due to indian conflict. Comanches culture changed once they obtained horses from trading goods which helped them gain territory.…
The name Anasazi many archeologist use from Ancestral Puebloans comes from the Navajo. (Digging for…
The Cherokee tribe is a tribe that originated in southwest Virginia, western North Carolina and South Carolina, north Georgia, east Tennessee, and northeast Alabama, and claiming even to the Ohio River. The cherokee is a very large tribe that stretched over a vast area. The Cherokee tribe had many sub tribes. The sub tribes often spoke different languages. The Cherokee language originated from the Iroquoian language.…
Native Americans, which include the Navajo Tribe, have a very long standing in the history of the United States. They have also been removed from their homelands thought out the ages. Many of these tribes have been forced to reside on reservations. According to the Journal of Health Education, Native Americans out of the total population are the unhealthiest population. This is proven by a shorter life expectancy and higher mortality rates for communicable diseases.…
The Cherokee Tribe of today is made of 3 different groups that all descend from the same common tribe which was formed in the late 1800s. The Cherokee community has more than 300,000 tribal members, making it the largest of the 567 federally recognized tribes in the United States. Upwards of 800,000 people claim having Cherokee ancestry on US land. With Oklahoma being the largest census of acclaimed Cherokee tribe members, members reside within 14 counties of that state. The Tribes economic impact within Oklahoma and neighboring northeastern states, is at an estimated $1.5 billion.…
Native Americans history began thousands of years before Columbus, first European, step foot on their land in North America. The Native Americans are a significant part of the United States culture. Many of the past on stories were created by them specifically. Natives have lived on American land for longer than anyone ever remember. The Native American’s were the first ethnic group to find America, however, they live on this land without no disruption nor struggle.…
The history of Native Americans in the United States is one filled with hardships and injustice. Even now, tribes continue to be denied what they believe has rightfully been earned by their own tribal government. The Cherokee Nation, the largest federally recognized Native American Nation, has been immersed into a political standoff between members of their own government, congress, and formally Cherokee tribal members over citizenship requirements. Citizenship for Native Americans has continually been a recurring dispute among tribe members concerning the ever-changing criteria set by tribal governments. For more than a hundred years, African/Indian mix blooded Cherokees known as Freedmen, slaves of Cherokee blood freed after the Civil War,…