Northwest Coast Tribal Masks This paper describes the Sea Bear Transformation Mask‚ created by Don Svanvik in 2000‚ and how it reflects Northwest Coast Indian art and culture‚ specific to the Kwakiutl tribe. A transformation mask is a large mask with hinged shutters that‚ when open‚ reveal another mask. Audrey and Alan Bleviss gave this mask to the Montclair Art Museum in 2005. The medium consists of red cedar‚ cedar bark‚ copper‚ pigment‚ and string. In the Montclair Art Museum‚ the mask is displayed
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When the Europeans began their settlement of the New World‚ it was both complicated and aided by its indigenous inhabitants. The native people alternately became allies and enemies of the newly arrived settlers from Europe. These two totally dissimilar cultures were hurtling toward each other in a clash of cultures that would be the end for one of them. Did either of them expect what was to come when the first Europeans came to America? What did the settlers expect of the Native Americans when they
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many European countries set out and explored and were looking to start colonies and expand their populations‚ and economies. Each country in different locations treated the Native people there in different ways. The French in New France created a partnership with the Native Americans. The French learned their language and lived among the natives in villages. In Massachusetts many natives were converted to Christianity. They moved to praying towns and attended schools. They helped the Europeans until
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Cherokee Indians The American Indian History in the Eastern part of the country is always associated with the Cherokee Indian nation. The Cherokee’s were by far the largest and most advanced of the tribes when Europeans first arrived and came in contact with Native Americans. There are too many tribes to go over background on every one of them‚ so I’m going to focus on the Cherokee’s since many of their ways and customs are so similar to all the other tribes in the East. When Europeans first
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going to focus on the history of the Sioux Tribe. We are going to compare and contrast the Sioux families to the families now. We are going to look at the type of clothing the Sioux tribe wears‚ the food they eat‚ the type of transportation they used and the type of houses and materials they used long ago to build their houses. - I will explain who are the Sioux’s. “The Sioux’s are a group of Native American people’s who speak similar languages. - Before I begin to read about the Sioux‚ I will ask
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The Enga Horticulturalist Tribe of Papau New Guinea Hypothesis: The Enga culture was unique to the Enga society; it was their acceptable traditional way of life that worked for them for many generations. Introduction The Enga Tribes were from the hilly highland terrain of Papau New Guinea. All Enga were horticulturalists‚ in other words farmers working small fields in which the planted and gave special individual attention to large mounds of tubers (taros and sweet potatoes) that constituted
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around it. This is the life of the Chippewa tribe. The Chippewa tribe‚ also known as Ojibway Indians (Web)‚ was created by the Algonquian people. In the early years‚ the Algonquian people maintained different tribes and cultures. They also traveled throughout the Great Lakes from place to place to find more efficient resources (Ditchfield 6). In the 1600s‚ the Chippewa tribe and its people‚ the Chippewas‚ became one of the largest and most efficient tribes in North America (7). The Chippewas called
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Americans were wronged by the European settlers. Adamant U.S government officials would threaten native tribes to leave their land so they could selfishly use the land for their own purposes. Andrew Jackson was the driving force in clearing away the Native Americans. He strongly despised American Indians as evidenced by his relentless promotion for their removal. Jackson eventually got his wish when Congress passed the Indian Removal Act which forced American Indians to relocate‚ thus allowing settlers
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remember how during the week before Thanksgiving‚ my 1st grade class did a skit about the “First Thanksgiving”. In order to look like Indians we made vests out of paper grocery bags and crumpled them up to look like leather and drew on them with crayons. When I think of my education of Native American culture‚ I think of going to North Pacific Reservations and seeing 10-12 ft tall totem poles with the shapes of animals carved into them. Most of the Native American tribes that I have learned about have
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What is a tribe? On the very first page of Seth Godin’s book‚ Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us‚ the author writes that “A tribe is group of people‚ connected to one another‚ connected to a leader‚ and connected to an idea. For millions of years‚ human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group only needs two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.” A follower is different than a fan‚ and just because someone may have lots of friends on social media‚ it doesn’t
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