History Of The Creek Indian Tribe

Native American culture was a great influence on newly introduced western art when settlers first came to North America. Not only did Native Americans have their own style of art, sculpture, basket weaving, and other fine arts. Their artistic styles helped influence some European art and gave them a different outlook on not only art itself, but a brand new culture that they have not seen before. This paper will talk about the different styles of Native American art and compare it to European art styles and artist, as well as going into detail about how their culture influenced artistic styles.

As humans, one of our most important natural instincts is survival. The Indians were an ancient people who were developed important survival skills and pass them down to the next generations. They were mostly hunter-gatherers with simple yet efficient lifestyles usually supported by the agriculture and wildlife. They were able to conserve water from streams, springs, and rainfall for irrigation, weave baskets to store foods derived from wild plants, and eventually create pottery, a more efficient way to store or retrieve resources. They did not wear a lot of clothing, but what clothing they had was from the hides of animals, woven from plant fibers. They were expert hunter-gatherers and created their own weapons such as spears, bows, and arrows. Some tribes were known to have tracked their prey and

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Native American beading has been accomplished for an unknown amount of time; but, beadwork is one of the most notorious art forms practiced by the Native American people. Native American people fashioned their own beads pending the appearance of Europeans. Since none of the Native Americans has metal tools, producing beads was a long, tedious, procedure. The tools the Native Americans did use, were made of stone or wood and adhesives such as sand. (Kansas

The Hadia’s houses were made out of posts and cedar planks. The Sioux’s houses were tipis. The Inuits art was different from the Hadia’s and Sioux’s because, the Inuits art/ carvings were made out of walruses and whales. The Hadia’s art/ carvings were made out of trees. The Sioux’s art/ carvings were made out of berry juices.

These Indians were called the Archaic Indians. These Indian were the second group of Indians after the Paleo Indians. These Indians had domesticated dogs and used shell, ivory and plant fiber and copper to make their goods. They carved cooking pots and storage containers out of soft stone. They also had the idea of pottery.

The Eskimos, because of their location trees are definitely not common so it’s hard to get ahold of. The material they will be using mainly is ivory and other things they can get after their kills of varies see mammals. This being said they rely on hunting and fishing, there located in a very cold environment. So there goal and time is spent on surviving, they don’t have a lot of time to make paintings or large sculptures. But they do manage to make tools such as drills, knifes, and other construction tools. When they do carve they will use ivory from walruses. With the Ivory they would make burial masks that resembled animals or humans, they would also carve out human or animal figures in small portions. Reason for most of this is that the Eskimos live a nomadic lifestyle.

In the book I Wish I’d Been There, there are two chapters that can easily be compared and contrasted, the McGillivray Moment and Chief Joseph Surrenders. Both chapters describe in painful detail how two Native American tribes, the Creek Indians during the 1790’s and the Nez Perce of the 1870’s, were abruptly kicked off the land they had inhabited for generations. They were pursuaed by the use of treaties, by representatives of the American Government. These three representatives were General Washington, General Howard and General Miles and all three went to extreme measures in order to get the land they coveted, they even twisted the rules of war and went against the law.

Ceramic making is still a popular tradition today in the Americas, especially on Native Indian Reservations, like in Western, North Carolina. The use of ceramics, however, is quite different than the way it was used by the natives during the Middle Woodland Period. Today, pottery is mainly made for decoration or art purposes by modern day Americans, but according to Wallis (2011), about 3,000 years ago the use of pottery became a very common use and practiced tradition among the native people who lived during that time period. The Swift Creek culture and the Cherokee Indians had very similar methods in formulating ceramics. The archaeological findings of these artifacts states that one group had been more advanced designs on their vessels. This reason is most likely because of the materials that one group was able to access in their area that the other group did not have available. One group was also more traditional and spiritual in making their vessels, which caused them to create more complex designs and methods while designing their ceramics (Block 2005). By looking at the similarities of both groups pottery styles, archaeologists were able to determine the minor but very distinctive differences, that one group processed in their art, than the other. By comparing each group’s ceramics by looking at

Ojibway Indian men usually wore breechcloths and leggings. The women wore dresses and kept their hair in neat braids. Their shoes were called moccasins. They were made out of deer or moose hide. Customarily, they wore leather headbands with feathers in the back. The Ojibway Indians made pictures, belts, purses, and other objects out of beads. They loved to use wampum beads in their artwork. Wampum beads are purple and white beads made from shells. The Ojibway Indians make beadart by sewing the beads onto leather so they can be placed individually or sewn into strips. They make the strips by stitching the beads into a string. This is usually done by hand or sometimes with a bowloom. Beadart takes years to master and is very time consuming for the Ojibway Indians. The Ojibway also made dream catchers out of sticks and feathers. They believed that the dream catchers would protect them from bad dreams.

Many of the artists who created the sculptures or paintings were indigenous people like Juan Gerson, who painted

Southwestern Indian pottery is probably the most famous, for its colorful designs and figures, distinctive forms like the double-spouted wedding vase, and unique techniques like the Pueblo “black on black” firing. The Southwest tribes are unquestionably the ones who have preserved their ceramics heritage the best—and, not coincidentally, the ones who still live nearest to their original homelands. Elsewhere in North America, Indians were forcibly transplanted to reservations where their traditional agriculture was not viable; less malignantly; some tribes, like the Sioux and Cheyenne, abandoned their farming practices and adopted a more nomadic lifestyle when they acquired horses from the Europeans and were able to pursue the buffalo

James D. Keyser and Michael A. Klassen discuss the application of portable art and ethnographic research in Plains Indian Rock Art. This research is a valuable tool used for many aspects of the North American indigenous people. It can be used in reference in dating protohistoric and historic period works (Sanders 2014, 44) By the use of known points of time for the arrival of resources, such the diffusion of the introduction of horses in North America to the comparison of symbols and styles (Keyser and Klassen 2001, 21, 257) there is a record from the people who not only lived the occurrences, but have received

Art is a very realistic aspect among the Native Americans. In fact, what we call primitive art is actually symbolic objects from the process of a sacred ceremony. This concept is one not easily understood. Furthermore, this concept by Sam Gill is explained in Native American Religions. Sam Gill shows that Native American Art is different in meaning because of its contents then what modern societies consider art. Nonliterate people produce objects of beauty through ceremonial performances and rituals that keeps the cosmos in order, while modern societies over look these factors.

Native American art is extremely close to the Palaeolithic examples within Gardeners and are almost universally accepted by all of academia to be of craft, art or even fine art.