Potlatch

Mile’s CEPA Project (Tlingit Tribe) My project was a totem pole from the tribes of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States; specifically the Tlingit. It took me 2-3 hours to make it. (I also got some help from my mom too). All of the materials came from my mom, too. There are three animals on my totem pole. They are a bear, wolf, and eagle. The bear represents strength and courage, as these were two things needed to live the hard life of a Native American. The wolf represents…

Before the great colonist arrived to the Americas, there were already people living on the land. Although they did not speak the same language or believe in the same gods, the people native to the lands were still very advanced. They had built great cities, most of the time had some sort of government, social class, religion and a shared a common language throughout the empire. It might not have been the same language as the colonists. Simply because there were differences between them it did…

The book I will be analyzing is, Kopet: A Documentary Narrative of Chief Joseph’s Last Year’s by M. Gidley. It was published in 1981 in Seattle, Washington, United States of America. This book is split up into three different sections: 1. Starting Out from the Meany Papers An introduction 2. Chief Joseph of the Nez Peres A chronology 3. White Witnesses to Chief Joseph’s End A Narrative This book discusses the last few years of Chief Joseph’s life, the white people…

This essay will critically analyze Marcel Mauss’ The Gift findings and theories about the honor, gift, and concept of “pure” or "free" gifts in the absence of an agenda. In doing so, he will integrate the use of these ideas and notions by the variety of writing theorists into the contemporary issues of using gifts and exchanging and sharing in the modern societies. However The Gift received a lot of criticism when it seems confronted with some of the assumptions incompatible with…

Since 1534 when Jacques Cartier, a French mariner, first stepped foot on Canadian soil, we have been interacting with aboriginal people. A lot has changed in how we treat these Native Americans since the 16th century, but it wasn’t until recently that they were even considered persons. The Indian Act has shown that Canada has tried to bridge relations with the aboriginal people, but it has not been effective due to misreading and the unknown desires of the aboriginal people, resident schools,…

The Tlingit indians are the northernmost of the Northwest Indian Tribes. The Northwest Indian tribes, consist of the Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Bella Coola, Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), Coast Salish, and Chinook tribes. They mostly live in northwest area of California, and Alaska. The Tlingit traditionally got much of their food by fishing, with salmon as the main food source. They also hunted seals and sea otters and gathered wild berries and roots. The Tlingit used cedar wood from…

against who wanted to keep them. In residential schools, many children were sexually abused and physically harmed. The government had banned the Aboriginal ceremony known as Potlatch Ceremony as it was considered an obstacle to assimilate Aboriginal children. The provincial government arrested the chiefs who performed the Potlatch Ceremony and sentenced them to jail. In the 1920s, the government had changed the Indian Act to allow them to enfranchise Aboriginals, which meant that the government…

traditions of the Kwakiutl Indians that were prohibited under the Federal Potlatch Prohibition and no longer practiced, such as ceremonial dances, sorcery, and head hunting. The film serves as a cultural narrative and documents an important moment of the interconnection between the emerging technology of filmmaking and the cultural change of the Kwakiutl. Through the film, the Kwakiutl exercise their own agency by evading the Potlatch ban in their participation as actors in Curtis’ film, and…

INTRODUCTION The First Nation people underwent lots of changes during the pre-contact to the fur-trading period and then again in the settlement period. The Prairies region in the western Canada consists of the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The First Nation people who lived there consist of Kwakwaka’wakw, Tsimshian, Haida, Cree, Athapascans, Blackfoot, Metis etc. During the pre-contact period the lifestyles of the First Nations peoples underwent many changes such as adjusting…

The Indigenous peoples of Canada have been mistreated for years, yet only recently has our government began to rebuild this important and valuable relationship. Canadians are generally known for their welcoming attitudes and openness towards others, however this view has constantly been tested since the beginning of the twentieth century. The largest problem facing Canadians as a nation is the constant mistreatment and discrimination shown towards the Indigenous Peoples, who are the descendants…