Northwest Native American Roles

Since the Native American people did not keep a record of a lot of things, it was all passed on through stories, rituals, ceremonies, and traditions. One thing that Native American people have is respect for everything. They have respect for things not because someone has ownership, but because they truly want everything to be equal in their eyes. I would say this is an unwritten law because there are not a lot of written laws that the Native American people follow, they only follow tradition, and tradition is respecting all things. The social structure of different groups or statuses in this culture start as everyone in the tribe then goes down to chiefs, then to families, then to women and men in the families. While men were leaders in the community, women were considered the leaders in the home and were highly respected. People on the outside might see that there is an inequality

The northern tribes used bones and deer antlers to make knives, scrapers, awls, fishing tools, whistles, and pendants. The first tribes denpended on agriculture were those that lived on the Atlantic Costal Plain. They learned how to make pottery and cloth. The cloth was woven with thread made from soft layers of splint baskets. They made musical instruments like pipers, rattles, drums, nd they were played during ruitals and ceremonies dances. They built two types of houses, long houses, and wigwams. The first type was formed by bending poles into a cone or dome shape and by tying the poles together with vines. The frame was covered with woven mats, bark, or hide . These people grew corn, squash, beans, pumpkins, and tobacco.

Have you ever heard or read anything about the role of elders in the Native Americans tribes? probably not, because that function did not exist. In these tribes around the 18th and 19th centuries, instead of considering them a source of wisdom, they thought that people who reached a certain age were wasteful, had no rights and were not considered persons. They were considered a serious obstacle and a danger to the tribe, to have members in their third age. Most were expelled from the tribe to die. Others did not change camp, but each had his way.

What the story of “The Big Game” tells us about Native American identity is that all the players see themselves as indigenous people; however, the ways in which they use to define what makes them indigenous varies within the two groups. (Hilary N. Weaver,2001, page 31) I think what Weaver was trying to say by "Identity is a combination of self-identity and the perceptions of others." Is that your identity is defined by your self-perception, community identification and the identification from external sources such as the government. Self-perception can be influenced by your community and other external influences such as social, economic and political factors.

After these three migrations, the Western Hemisphere is secluded from the Eastern half for about 7500 years. During this time the people in the Americas spread (mostly to the south)

The Northeastern Native Americans (also known as the Woodland Indians) had a good geography. Some of the Northeastern Native Americans lived along the atlantic coast. This was good and bad for the Native Americans. This was good, because of the water source they could use for food and trading. It was not so good, because they had contact with the Europeans. That lead to friendships, alliances forged, land deals struck, treaties were signed, and then conflict arose. The atlantic coast will be located on our exhibit behind the mountains and connected to the river/ stream. While having a good atlantic coast as a water source, the Native Americans of the Northeast also had the Gulf of Mexico, which

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,

Each person in the Ojibwa family has its own role to ensure that things are done correctly. In the Ojibwa community, the roles between males and females were seen as complementary. The males would do the hunting and go to war if needed. The men would also be the ones that do trading and negotiation with the Europeans after the first contact. They usually hold leadership positions. Even though the society was usually not as organized, there was still need for leaders. People would gain rank as great warriors, religious leaders, and civil leaders. The most respected in the towns would be the shaman because of his

Native American women had to follow their husbands, fathers, and brothers to wherever they wanted to go in order to stay close to the bison. Therefore, with all the moving around, they had teepees that could be put up for living and taken down for travelling. Women were in charge of both packing up and putting up these moveable homes. Once they had claimed their new home, women started working the fields. These fields were their responsibility. Their children were also theirs to care for while the men were out on long hunting journeys. On top of all that, Native American women made things to trade, such as jewelry, tools, and pottery.

Since the arrival of the Europeans in 1492 the Native American has systematically been dehumanized, decivilized and redefined into terms that typify a subordinate or minority role, restricted life opportunities persist today as a result.

“Native Americans have faced centuries of atrocities to their people, their land, and their culture - all under various presidents who took an oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States” (Markwayne Mullin). Native Americans have been living a hard life ever since Columbus arrived in North America but, we need to change that. Native American have been living here before any of us, and we’re just living in their land. Native Americans have struggled since white people first arrived in North America. Some contemporary issues Native Americans face are their ability to prosecute crimes such as rapes against their community, as well as land rights, and the ability to be recognized by the government. It is important that we, as a country, address these issues.

The United States government constructed many federal policies for Native Americans to make American settlers lives better. Federal policies the United States government came up were very inhumane and unfair. A couple of these federal policies are the removal policy, termination policy, and finally the reservation policy. The federal policies deeply affected Native Americans ways of life and their trust in a American settler. These policies could have been modified to make Native Americans better if the United States government and American settlers cared more about the Native Americans well being and beliefs during the 1800’s.

Native Americans on the reservations are at socially and economically disadvantage compared to persons who reside in metropolitan cities. Life advancement opportunities and individual accountability for better living standards are almost non-existence in many Native American communities. The environment that is around young adolescents are very

THESIS STATEMENT: The Native Americans were historically doomed because of the Europeans inability to accept elements of Native American culture that they felt were savage, the natives inability to acknowledge the Europeans threat to their lifestyle and land, and the far superior European army used to defeat Indian tribes.

The Na'vi resemble a native american tribes, which has a chief and a spiritual leader, hunters and gatherers as well as rituals and right of passage from adolescent to adulthood. The tribe had duties split among