Tribal chief

doing things like building new homes when they moved. They also took care of the children and the cooking. It was very rear that a woman become a warrior and got to fight like a man. The men where the hunters, worriers, and leaders. Man could only be chiefs in the tribe. But, both took part in medicine, artworks, music, and other things. Most of their homes were built in wooden frames covered by a brush and was called wickiups. The clothing verify gender and position. Woman wore bucks skin…

reference to one of the former Native American chiefs of the Sauk tribe of the same name. Black Hawk and his party fought for their land that had been given up for resources by another tribal member to the government in the early 1830s. In an effort to secure the land back and drive white settlers away, he led his men against the U.S. Army (Andrews-Jones). To incorporate aspects of Native American existence, Cather named the town after the war chief (Fischer 35). Disappointingly, she achieved…

Set, in part, in the tiny town of Tularosa, New Mexico, Tularosa by Michael McGarrity is a story of muder, mystery, history, and culture. Kevin Kerney, an injured, ex-chief of detectives for the Santa Fe police department, must come out of retirement when his godson, Sammy Yazzi, a Navajo, Native American soldier, goes missing from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. As the story unfolds, Kerney must dig deep into stories from his own past, as well as stories of the native people of the…

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The arrival of various Creek and other Muscogee people to Florida in the mid-1700s signaled the genesis of what would eventually be recognized as the Seminole tribe of Florida. These Indians settled in parts of Florida where the original, albeit much less in numbers, inhabitants of Florida still resided. Many of the Florida Indians by the time of the British arrival were trading for decades with the Spanish and its colonies to the immediate south. The Creek nation was a loose confederation of…

A great leader of the Crow named Elapuash once said, “A good country because the Great Spirit put it in exactly the right place.” When he had said that, he was talking about the Crow’s homeland, which is now Montana, near the Bighorn Mountains.The Crow had many previous names, Great leaders, and traditions. The Crow also had many defense tactics, own religion and they still have their land today, more than 8000 people live on the crow reservation. Their land used to offer plentiful resources and…

Geronimo was a prominent leader of the Chiricahua Apache Tribe and the leader of the Apache Wars. He is famous for taking his men with him and going rogue as well as being a known “celebrity” after the wars. Throughout his life he battled for the right to Indian Land. Geronimo fought against the Reservation System and continued to fight and flee until the Closing of the Frontier, when this came into effect Geronimo surrendered. Geronimo explains that the white men came into their existence…

These are dark days for international jihadists. In Syria, Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda militants are being chased out of their long-held strongholds either by troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad or the Kurd-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by Russian and American airpower respectively. Pro-government militias in cooperation with national armies also have them on the run in Libya, Yemen and Iraq. As IS’s grand facade of a “caliphate” crumbles and it devolves into an improvised…

retain a unique cultural context of their own ("Nipmuc," n.d). Like other Native American people, the Nipmuc enjoy social, cultural, and spiritual gatherings known as powwows, which usually involve drums and traditional dancing ("Nipmuc," n.d.). The tribal drum plays an irreplaceable role in their culture, and they even have a legend that explains its importance ("Nipmuc," n.d.). According to the legend, the early Nipmuc men could not get along with each other. As a result of the constant…

Two Leggings was born in 1844, approximately 21 years before the period of Reconstruction that would ultimately change Crow society forever. During this time, Crow Indians underwent numerous transitions that inevitably changed their culture. The beginning of Two Legging’s memoir talks about how warrior culture dominated Crow society. However, by the end of the book, warrior culture is next to nonexistent. According to Two Leggings, “nothing happened after that. We just lived. There were no more…