Southwest Culture Area: Lesson 8 Study of Southwest Cultures The Pueblo peoples of the desert Southwest were quite unlike any of the cultures that we have discussed thus far in the course. Because of their entirely sedentary farming lifestyle and permanent housing‚ 19th century thinkers considered Pueblo Indians to be higher on a social evolution scale than other Native Americans. In other words‚ Puebloan groups were considered superior to other tribes around them because their behavior and
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Communities: Cahokia: Thirteenth-Century Life on the MississippiSettling the Continent 3 * Who Are the Indian People? 3 * Migration from Asia 3 * Clovis: The First American Technology 5New Ways of Living on the Land 6 * Hunting Traditions 7 * Desert Culture 7 * Forest Efficiency 9The Development of Farming 9 * Mexico 9 * The Resisted Revolution 10 * Increasing Social Complexity 11 * The Religions of Foragers and Farmers 12 * Farmers of the Southwest 13 * The Anasazis 13 * Farmers
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Native Americans have inhabited this country for many generations. We see so many things that are influenced by the Native Americans and we find ourselves in awe of the independence of these peoples and the culture that they have come from. When we look at art through the eyes of the Native American we should see a functional and usable art. Art was not for aesthetic reasons; it had real purpose. The folk art that came from these cultures were for religious and moral reasons. Everything that
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intricate ways of watering their crops d. No dense concentrations of population or complex nation-states comparable to the Aztecs existed in NA prior to the arrival of Europeans e. Mound Builders of the Ohio River Valley/Mississippian Culture/Anasazi of the Southwest (Map pg 9 p NA Indians and the first arrival of the Europeans) - ancient cultures fell by 1300 AD (drought??) f. “Three-Sister” farming in the SE Atlantic (beans‚ corn and squash) - led to some of the highest populations in NA (Creek
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yReview Test Submission: Unit I Assessment Page 1 of7 HY 1110-101-6‚ American History 1 Unit 1 Review Test Submission: Unit 1Assessment 9User Status Score Review Test Submission: Unit I Assessment Submitted 10/11/11 12:02 PM Completed 94 out of 100 points 1. You may open this assessment multiple times but you may only submit it once. 2. You may print the assessment and prepare your answers offline. Alternatively‚ you may enter and save your answers for a portion of
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[pic] Edward T. Hall “The Silent Language” [pic] Skopje‚ 2010 Edward T. Hall was born in Webster Groves‚ Missouri. He has taught at the University of Denver‚ Colorado‚ Bennington College in Vermont‚Harvard Business School‚ Illinois Institute of Technology‚ Northwestern University in Illinois and others. The foundation for his lifelong research on cultural perceptions of space was laid during World War II when he served in the U.S. Army in Europe and the Philippines. From 1933 through
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A married woman in the colonial era generally lost control of her property when she married because landowning was primarily reserved to men. Women had little rights and men had the majority of the power. Therefore the property of the woman went to her husband. At the time Europeans first began colonization‚ what was true of Northeast American Indian tribes was that their political and linguistic differences hindered united opposition. The tribes saw themselves as groups distinct and different from
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The Owens valley Paiute Indians live in the great basin. These Indians are located in the great basin is located in the western region of the U.S. They usually lived in dwellings and also used wood to make them but they majorly lived in thatched wikiups which are made up of straw and skins. These Indians where very used to living in their environment. The Owens valley Paiute Indians usually wore skins and in the winter they usually didn’t change the way they dressed so they would just add a rabbit
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hunters and fishermen. The southwest region of North America was home to the farming people of the Pueblo country‚ inhabiting substantial cities of stone or adobe (clay). In the Four-Corners (Utah‚ Colorado‚ Arizona and New Mexico) area was where the Anasazi people (a.k.a. the “ancient ones”) were settled. Their culture began in about 100 BC. Along the Mississippi we villages of the Mound
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The history of the Native Americans didn’t start when Columbus bumped into the Americas‚ “… it began when their ancestors fell from the sky‚ emerged from under the earth‚ were transformed from ash trees into people‚ entered the world through a hollow log…” (pg. 14). Many people who don’t know any better‚ or just don’t research‚ still believe that before any outsiders came‚ that Natives lived horrible lives; never had enough food‚ weren’t that intelligent‚ and had no concept of “civilized life.” Of
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