Native American history, just like other ancient cultures, is created through historical sources such as journals, art, and stories passed down through the cultures descendants. No matter how many sources there are that describe what the culture was like and how they lived, there will always be gaps in the information. When it comes to Native Americans, before the arrival of Europeans there is very little information about most of the tribes that dotted North America. Once the Europeans colonized North America and began to take exploratory trips around the country they recorded their experiences with various tribes. This colonization resulted in an increase in the amount of written texts, depictions, photographs, and films of Native Americans;
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5. The piece is a sculptural self-portrait of the Tlingit/Aleut artist carved from the pages of Under Mount St. Elias: The History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingut, a ethnographic study of Galanins culture from the mid-twentieth century (Berlo and Phillips 1998, 10-11). Under Mount St. Elias is the culmination of four decades of research by Frederica de Laguna. The text focuses on the Yakutat culture; analyzing the history of the land, the technology and economy, and the social world in volume one. In volume two and three de Laguna focuses on the traditions of the tribe, discussing the art, medicine, religious traditions, and music (Rosman 1977, …show more content…
When analyzing Native American art and history, the pieces cannot be looked at in the same way that someone would analyze a Roman art piece. Following the colonization of North America by Europeans both Spanish and English, Native American tribes were subject to harsh treatment, being removed from their lands and wiped out by the diseases that settlers brought. Unlike the Roman Empire, which grew and ended up becoming countries like Italy, France, and Spain; the Native Americans were stripped of their rights and their populations were
5. The piece is a sculptural self-portrait of the Tlingit/Aleut artist carved from the pages of Under Mount St. Elias: The History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingut, a ethnographic study of Galanins culture from the mid-twentieth century (Berlo and Phillips 1998, 10-11). Under Mount St. Elias is the culmination of four decades of research by Frederica de Laguna. The text focuses on the Yakutat culture; analyzing the history of the land, the technology and economy, and the social world in volume one. In volume two and three de Laguna focuses on the traditions of the tribe, discussing the art, medicine, religious traditions, and music (Rosman 1977, …show more content…
When analyzing Native American art and history, the pieces cannot be looked at in the same way that someone would analyze a Roman art piece. Following the colonization of North America by Europeans both Spanish and English, Native American tribes were subject to harsh treatment, being removed from their lands and wiped out by the diseases that settlers brought. Unlike the Roman Empire, which grew and ended up becoming countries like Italy, France, and Spain; the Native Americans were stripped of their rights and their populations were