Who really created or discovered the Americas? Many believe Colombus‚ many believe Lewis and Clark‚ some believe the Indians or Natives. Whichever the reader does believe is besides the point when The Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World written by the the anthropologist‚ Jack Weatherford goes in depth about the huge effect Indians have put on our cultural‚ societal‚ political practices as well as many agricultural products may not have been produced without the knowledge
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The American Pageant‚ 13th Edition Textbook Notes Chapter 01 - New World Beginnings I. The Shaping of North America 1. Recorded history began 6‚000 years ago. It was 500 years ago that Europeans set foot on the Americas to begin colonization 2. The theory of Pangaea exists suggesting that the continents were once nestled together into one mega-continent. They then spread out as drifting islands. 3. Geologic forces of continental plates created the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. 4. The
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Native American religions and culture are very complex and that is largely due to the fact that there have been many Native American tribes. In this essay‚ I will focus on the largest most major religions and give an idea of the Native American culture and traditions. The first major Native American religion would be the Earth Lodge religion which originated in northern California and southern Oregon tribes such as the Wintun but then it reached tribes such as the Siletz‚ Achomawi and Shasta. It
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The story "The world on a turtle’s back" is an Iroquois myth while the story "The story of corn and medicine" is a Cherokee myth. While reading two stories "The world on a turtle’s back" and "The story of corn and medicine" countless people may notice innumerable objects. Those that read the stories may have detected four similarities in both of the stories. They may have also observed four differences in both of the stories. In various creation myth stories‚ there are multiple similarities and differences
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before the Blessed Sacrament that he will devote the rest of his life to work if necessary (“Saint Noel Chabanel”‚ 1). Chabanel continued to work and interact with the Hurons and eventually helped a stream of Huron refugees who fled from the invading Iroquois. While leading a group of survivors to safety‚ he was murdered by an apostate Huron on the Feast of Immaculate Conception‚ December 8th (“Saint Noel Chabanel”‚ 1).
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an attempt to shut down the independence the colonies were beginning to seek by using Loyalist propaganda and would have opposed them. They would have also thought the Iroquois Confederacy’s treaty with Britain to be unfortunate‚ but I feel they would have understood when they looked at the decision through the eyes of the Iroquois. Documents that I examined prove that this response would be theirs. Leonard was a lawyer and a Loyalist during the early years of America before it was a country and only
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always been ambiguous. Religion‚ ethnicity‚ and culture all participate in the coming of man. How mankind came into existence has many different versions‚ many of which lie in the Torah‚ Koran‚ and Bible. “The World on a Turtle’s Back” is the Iroquois belief of creation‚ divergent to “The Creation Story” from the Bible. Though these versions are about the same topic‚ they both differ on several accounts. “And God said‚ let there be light: and there was light.” (Genesis 1:3). Christian’s believe
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The Eastern Woodland Indians The Eastern Woodland Indians was comprised mainly of two major regions the Iroquois and the Cherokee. These Indians lived from the East of the plains down to the coast. Iroquois region was in the North Eastern known today as the vicinity of Ohio and the Cherokee region was in the Southeastern known today as the Georgia and Tennessee vicinity. The Indians dwelt off lands gathering‚ farming‚ hunting‚ and fishing for survival. While men created bows and arrows for hunting
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research of anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan‚ who had published Ancient Society in 1877‚ making him one of the first to apply a materialist analysis to tell the story of how human social organization had evolved over time. When Morgan observed the Iroquois Indians in upstate New York‚ he saw kinship relationships totally different from the family relationships considered "normal" during the Victorian era. He found that in more than one case‚ Native American men and women were organized in communities
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far different from their own. The biggest‚ and perhaps the most glaring‚ difference between the two societies was that some of the Natives lived in a matrilineal society‚ while the Europeans believed in a more common patrilineal way of life. The Iroquois believed in matrilineal families where the family was determined by the mother‚ rather than the father. The females were clearly the authority of the household; if a woman desired a divorce with her husband‚ she would simply take his belongs and
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