Native North American Culture

The Southwest Native American and their culture is very unique.There art contained their symbols and signs to show what they believe in.This is important because it is a big part of their daily life and practices.They had dolls that represented the Kachina spirits.This is important because this is an important part of their culture and history.In our exhibit the little girl is holding one.They wore turquoise jewelry because it promotes wealth,happiness and fortune.In our exhibit the people are wearing the jewelry.The South West native american culture is very unique because they used dolls to represent spirits.

Working with diverse populations it is also important to remember that within a specific race there are different cultures and subcultures. Culture within a race includes knowledge, beliefs, morals and customs as a part of that society. It is important to remember that just because two people have the same skin color and share genetically the same race, culturally they can be very different. In North America Native Americans are unfortunately grouped together based on similar characteristics. Although many Native American tribes due share a great deal not only genetically but culturally, tribes have developed their own set of social norms and culture based on region and possible different spiritual beliefs. To further differentiate within the

The Paiutes are a Native American Indian tribe “made up of several bands throughout the western part of the United States, also known as the Great Basin region” (Ruby 222). The Northern Paiutes populated areas of Oregon, California, Nevada, and Idaho; and inquiries as to how the environment might have affected their interactions, migration, and social behavior is a topic of great interest in Oregon archeology. The Northern Paiutes “who practiced the ancestral lifeway well into the 19th century, were heirs to an extremely ancient cultural tradition” (Aikens 13). Historical archeological studies found that these groups often “made tools, gathered plants, and hunted animals of similar if not identical kinds” (Aikens 13). Through these similar identities,

Native American culture has impacted America in many ways. Just some of these ways include agriculture, language, and governmental ideas. About four hundred years ago, when the pilgrims came to America, they met Squanto. After it became obvious that they were going to struggle to farm, Squanto, a native American who spoke English, taught them all about how to successfully farm in their homeland (Amenlnckx). Without Squanto and his tribe, the Pilgrims would have likely starved that winter.

Hispanic culture does and always has interested more than any other culture of the world. Traditions, architecture, beliefs, music, and various other components that make up culture have always seemed ideal and interesting. America has been and is great to me due to its vast freedoms and somewhat accepting melting-pot culture, but with so many aspects of culture surrounding me, I have often felt overwhelmed and lacking nationality. I am interested to see how differently people hold onto their cultural identity and how they feel about their country. I also would like to see how this feeling is different to the various countries and people that speak the Spanish language. On a family vacation, I went to Mexico and partially observed how people

When I was in the 6th grade my friend Loa told me about her dead great-great-great-great grandfather, Chief Little Crow, who was the chief of the Mdewakanton Dakota people. She told me that when archeologists unearthed Little Crow, they placed his bones and spirit in a glass box in the Minnesota State capitol. She said that it took her family more than a decade to properly rebury his body. While I drank my chocolate banana milkshake, she described her hatred of white people who wore white lab coats. “I hate them,” she insisted, “Why do they dig up my ancestors’ as if they are trophies?” At the time, I did not realize that Loa’s hatred of archeologists has been inherited as a result of a decade’s long tug-of-war between science and indigenous

Native American culture has faced a series of battles since the first settlers arrived. For many years, the natives were pushed further away from their food source and struggled to survive, due to famine and disease. Eventually, the government came to the aide of the natives offering sub-par substances to supply the nutritional needs and to force assimilation. In the article, , “Commod Bods and Frybread Power: Government Food Aid in American Indian Culture”, Vantrease discusses the journey of commodity foods and the diffusion into popular culture.

Native American lives were much different before the arrival of Europeans. Due to the fact that there was a multitude of tribes, cultures differ greatly amongst different groups. Native Americans hiked over the land bridge, the Bering Strait, more than 12.000 years ago. Among this group of people, scientist divided them into 10 different culture areas: the Arctic, California, the Great Basin, the Northeast, the Northeast Coast, the Southeast, the Southwest, the Subarctic, the Plains and the Plateau.

The Native American life in North America lacked technologies like metal tools, machines, gunpowder, and scientific knowledge before the Europeans arrived. None of the Tribes north of Mexico had achieved a great reading ability however, some were able to make maps on the beck of animal hides and on tree bark. They did not have wheeled vehicles of any kind or domestic animals to pull them. They were able to live life like without tools and knowledge just fine before the Europeans arrived.

Did you know the Sioux nation is made up of the Dakota Sioux, the Lakota Sioux and the Nakota Sioux? My heritage affects me in multiple ways, including the foods I eat, the traditions I do with my family, and the languages I know. Here are the three my heritage affects me: foods,traditions, and languages.

Every country and nation have they own special festivals and music, and Native American is no exception. First, the native music related many aspects such as ritual, life and work. They like to combine music with dance, and the Native American music always created rich percussion instruments. For example, the hand drum, log drum, water drum and rattle, etc. The Powwow is an important festival and ritual for the Native American, and it is a symbol of the tradition culture of Native Indians. Powwow, is a social gathering by the Native American tribes, and they are singing and dancing. Powwow is not only a method that the Native American expresses the enthusiasm of the life and peace, but also enhances the sense of identity and cohesion.

Sometimes people in the second generation sometimes disown their parents – they want to assimilation and fit in. The first generation have a sense of pride and connection to their original homeland while the second generation wants to fit in and have there own security with there ‘new’ country. The culture paradigm shifts towards the state and away from their ‘nation’.

In Chief Dan George’s essay, I am A Native of North America, he describes the differences between Native American lifestyle and White lifestyle. Native Americans very deeply care about nature all of their beliefs are surrounding nature. Whether they worshiped the sun, the sky, and the moon. Or maybe they worshiped the grass, the water, and the animals. There are differences. The indigenous lived communally in large tribes were everyone knew everyone else. They shared, traded, and families lived together.

I do agree that the Europeans do show the native culture though these images. However, the images would have be different if they were based on legends/stories. The images would have been according to the artist creativity and inaccurate. The images are accurate representation of the role in the native society. The two artistic style are different but overall both have the same objective to represent the native

You may be asking yourself what’s culture, well culture is a group’s or and individual’s customs. There are five main components to culture is their beliefs, their values, their language, their norms and their symbols that represent them/give them hope. Let’s define each one individually. A group’s belief could be their religion or their feelings towards a certain subject, I represented this with a cross to show that Christianity was a prominent part of their society and belief system and the crossed out Native was meant to represent how they wanted the Natives moved away from their land. The next component we will discuss is a groups norms, a norm is something that happens almost daily in the American’s/Native’s life. To show this I put a