The Blackfoot Tribe is a group of Native Americans that lived in the Northern Great Plains. It consisted of four distinct nations, The Siksika, The Blood, The Pikinini, and The Blackfeet Nation. These nations all shared historical and cultural backgrounds, and they fought the same enemies but they were all independent with their leadership. The Siksika, the Blood, and the Pikinini Nations lived in Alberta, Canada and the Blackfeet Nation lived in Montana. Most of the tribes settlements were in Montana, Idaho, and Alberta.…
In the first chapter of the book, Native Peoples of the Southwest (Griffin-Pierce, 2000) we learn about the general history of the Native tribes of the Southwest. We learn of there independence and the periods of time they were taken over by other countries. It also talks of the land and those who dwelled there. It also gives us a little peak into there culture and their lives. This chapter was packed with information where we learned about different tribes homelands and past history with Spain, Mexico and the Americas.…
The early history of Pueblo Indians in post contact times are intertwined with that of the Spanish, who initially asserted the area and gave it the name New Mexico. A Spanish wayfarer named Marcos de Niza achieved Zuni nation as ahead of schedule as 1539, just 18 years after the province of New Spain was established in North America. At that point Francisco Vásquez de Coronado investigated the locale in 1540 and Antonio de Espejo in 1582. These early endeavors did not modify the Pueblo Indian lifestyle. In 1598, notwithstanding, Juan de Oñate and 129 homesteaders—whole families—touched base to build up the province of New Mexico. They brought stallions, goats, and sheep with them. In 1610, Oñate established the capital of this province,…
The Cherokee tribe splits up into three different tribes; Cherokee Nation, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Cherokee was one of the first, if not the first non-European ethnic group to become US citizens. This is one of the largest groups with an estimated population of 25,000 members. It is the largest of all of the Southern tribes. The Cherokee Nation had approximately 135,000 of land in North America. Eventually it extended from the Ohio River in the north to what is the state of Alabama to the South today.…
The Navajo’s land was very precious. They lived in a huge expanse of land. They lived in large chunks of Utah and Arizona. They also inhabited small parts of Colorado and New Mexico. They had a similar climate all year around. The climate was arid to semi-arid. They had very hot summers and very cold winters. The annual precipitation for most of their land was less than 10 inches of rain. The average temperature range was 40 degrees Fahrenheit to 55 degrees Fahrenheit. They also had natural resources. They had coal, uranium, oil, natural gas, minerals, petroleum, agriculture, and herbs.…
In view of the Choctaw tribe, their lots of things today's generation does not know that went about on/inside their reservation. There are things like their geographic location, clothing, historical impact, housing and reputation that no one could have never thought about that went on at reservations in America.…
In the Eastern Plains Villages, nearly everyone had horses that were supplied by Jumano and Comanche traders. The benefits were nearly irresistible, and they started using horses to hunt, make sudden attacks, and became middlemen in the food trade industry. However, they soon learned that horses would destroy cornfields and consume large amounts of the dwindling supply of cottonwood bark. Within the Eastern Plains there were many different equestrian cultures and ideals. The Mandans, Hidatsas, and Arikaras continued to focus on agriculture, suppressed nomadic tendencies, and preferred small scale hunts with a few horses per family. Some small scale villages did not bother…
Cayuga tribe live in what is now called New York. Some were forced to migrate to Wiscons, Oklahoma, Ontario, and Canida. Cayuga girls wore wraparound skirts with shorter leggings. Cayuga men wore Breechcloths with longer leggings. Cayuga girls were farmers. They planted fruits and veggies. Cayuga men went to hunt deer and fish for fish in Lake Ontario.…
The concept of race, according to Rosenberg, has been “entangled with the notion of ‘civilization’” (Rosenberg 316). Past historians studying races tended to compare them through their respective cultural tenets and such methodology was susceptible to establishing a hierarchical construction of race. William Fyffe, although not a historian, proceeds to document the discrepancies and similarities between the Cherokee Indians and the colonials in his letter to his brother. According to Fyffe, the Cherokees valued war and orderly communication amongst one another and these cultural beliefs were rather antithetical to European culture.…
The Blackfoot Indian Nation are the “Real People of Montana”. The Blackfoot Confederacy consists of four Native American tribes, the Northwestern Plains, which are the North Piegan the South Piegan, the Blood, and the Siksika tribes.…
Around the 1870s, the government handed out ration of food to Indians. Native Americans were not able to freely do anything during Western Expansion because they were only allowed to be in the reservations. They were not able to hunt or farm so the government distributed food to them. Native Americans were not able to hunt anymore because all of the buffalo were gone due to the settlers. Their reservations were poor land with no rich soil to farm. The Native Americans couldn’t supply no more food to their tribes so they had no choice but to accept the food rations from the government.…
These earth lodges were usually big enough to shelter up to seven families at a time. For example, “The Mandan Indians lived in settled villages of round earthen lodges. Mandan lodges were made from wooden frames covered with packed earth. When Mandan men went on hunting trips, they often used small buffalo-hide tepees as temporary shelter”(source A). This shows that the houses the Mandan people lived in were lodges made of earth and usually very large enough to hold seven families. This also shows that when the men were on hunts they set up buffalo hide tepees as temporary shelter. The Mandan clothing was very unique because the man and women wore many different animal hides. For example. “The clothes worn by the Mandan men consisted of breechcloths, fringed buckskin tunics and leggings. Warm buffalo robes or cloaks or blankets were also worn to protect against the rain and the cold”(source B). This shows that the Mandan wore many different types of animal hide clothing. This also shows that they used their resource that nature provided to them. All in all the mandan people had very unique living and clothing…
The Winnebago tribe has two bands. One band of the Winnebago people resides in many places of Wisconsin and the other band of the Winnebago people resides on the reservation in Winnebago Nebraska. The Winnebago people migrated from the Mayans in Mesoamerica to Nebraska. There were plenty of epidemic diseases and wars that caused migrations to the Native American people. Before the Europeans invaded the New World, the Native American people didn’t have a written language, therefore oral traditions were liable.…
The Shawnee survived using various methods of hunting and gathering. Both men and women had responsibilities in providing food. They hunted many animals including deer, squirrel, turkey, raccoon, bear, muskrat, rabbit, and ducks/geese. They set traps for the animals, and they disguised themselves to blend in with their surroundings to get close enough to club or shoot them. People never wasted anything; they used all the different parts for different things. In January and February they hunted beaver for their pelts and meat to trade with the settlers. In the summer time they, and during fall, groups of men and women would leave the village and hunt. Small temporary lodges were used.…
From their nakedness, Columbus inferred the native people to be an inferior race. Columbus wrote of the Indians he encountered, "They all go around as naked as their mothers bore them; and also the women." However, he noted that "they could easily be commanded and made to work, to sow and to do whatever might be needed, to build towns and be taught to wear clothes and adopt our ways." Although Columbus also wrote that "they are the best people in the world and above all the gentlest," his record of the first encounter between Europeans and New World Indians was filled with accounts of enslavement, murder, and rape.…