Native American art

American fellows! While we are enjoying the air of patriotic pride and the fortune to be one of the most intelligent and thoughtful citizens of the United States, we must stay alert to the critical problems that block our way to establish a divine and peaceful nation. However, the condition and ulterior destiny of the Indian tribes are trembling because of the absolute control of our president Andrew Jackson, regarding his brutal, arbitrary forces and various unjust acts towards Native Americans…

The early use of maize would take years to establish itself with the Native Americans. The maize plant moved north from Mexico into the southwestern North America. Early maize was an incidental crop, the seed were scatter and the resulting crop was gathered. Maize would slowly gain a foot hold and finally become a stable of the Native American diet. Maize would allow the rise of the Anasazi. Climate change and drought would destroy the Anasazi culture, by creating famine. Unable to support the…

catastrophe than it is a celebration. The day that Christopher Columbus arrived in North America was a momentous day. Along with the great discovery of North America that is worthy of celebration, it also marks the beginning of the mass genocide of the Native Americans. The later of the two has been ignored. As the tales go, “In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” We are taught from the day we step foot into schools that Christopher Columbus was a hero who sailed the…

The Northwest Native American Culture Region adapted the best to their unique climate and environment by using their resources such as their food sources, housing and tools. These where extremely important to the people because they where items that let them live day to day in premature settlement. This is show easily as it was the longest Region stretching across the entire coastline. Each of these they made/used for different purposes. All of this was vary good to expand as a region/culture.…

Before Christopher Columbus, the Native Americans as a whole lived in a variety of cultures and cannot be simply grouped into one larger society. This division and diversity allowed for rich art and histories but also facilitated European conquest. The Native Americans can be divided into two large groups, those of North America, and those of South & Central America, to be analysed separately. Within Central and South America, there were two main populations. The Mayans ruled much of the…

Native Americans Religion • Each tribe has their own religion • A ritual taken by adolescence boys, this includes a journey to have a vision of a future guardian spirit that includes: fasting, isolation and meditation. This rituals is about Animism and that everything has a spirit. Some explain it as a experience that takes the boy out of his body and while still containing consciousness. Those taking it were seeking help from a spirit guardian • Spirits can contact the human world. Some native…

Explain why American Indians were so diverse in 1491. Before 1491, the New World remained untouched and relatively undiscovered by Europeans. Native American tribes had developed unique cultures and customs similarly to how Europe had many different countries. Without horses to make transport easier and with varied climates, the tribes remained more or less separated from one another and therefore developed vastly different ways of life and adaptations to the land. Because tribes outside of a…

between the Native Americans and European settlers, one must first learn the cultural differences between them. While, some Native American’s learned to “coexist” with new foreign settlers trading and interacting with them, other natives did not like these invaders and were eventually destroyed, usually by force. These new Europeans tried to bring their new way of life to the natives while these people just wanted to maintain their traditional and natural way of life. Native Americans wanted to…

During the 19th century, a holy man had a sick daughter and he had a dream that said she would be healed if she danced with a dress with a jingle for each day of the year. There are different versions of the origin of the jingle dress, but most agree that the jingle dress appeared through a dream connection. The Jingle Dress dance was dead for 20 years then it made a comeback in Powwows. Powwows are competitions for family traditions which continues their culture and legacy. These competitions…

economies and societies by creating a drastic decline in the native population, generating new goods for overseas trade, and by creating new mixed cultures. When the spanish found the new lands they were determined to conquer the lands. They would stop for nothing. The spaniards had advanced weapons and armor and the natives only had bows and arrows and the spanish had horses that the natives had never seen and they frightened the natives.…