THIS IS A SIDE ABOUT THE NATIVE AMERICA

ABOUT HOW THEY LIVED AND LIVE NOW

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A long time ago North America was very different from the way it is today. There were no highways, cars, or cities. There were no schools, malls, or restaurants. But even long, long ago, there were still communities. A community is where a group of people work, live, and have fun together. People made their own homes, food, and clothing from the plants and animals they found around them. These first Americans descended, or came, from cave men in Asia. These were the first people to live in North America. That is why we call them Native Americans. These people have lived in North America for thousands of years, and there are still Indian communities today.

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                         

 

                                                                                                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many different Indian groups lived in North America. Each groups had its own language and customs.Several groups of Indians often shared the same culture.Indian groups that shared the same culture had the same way of finding food and building houses. They depended on the same natural resources and used them in the same way.    

                                                                   more about cultures                       

 

 

 Each culture area had their own type of home.                                               

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   longhouse

                                                                                                                                                        tepee

 

 

                     wooden house

                                                                                               wickiup                                                                                                  adobe

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                                    haida house

                                    

The Pacific Northwest people lived along 2,000 miles of coastline from southern Alaska to northern California.                                                                            

 

People who lived in the Pacific Northwest lived in cedar plank longhouses.

 Chinook, Haida, Nootka and Tlingit                                                                  TLINGITMAN

                                         TLINGITWOMEN                                                                             

                                                                                                                                                                  

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                     

 

 

 

The Great Basin: Shoshone, Paiute and Mono.                                                                                              

The plateau area: Nez Perce, the Ute, and the Umatilla.                      NEZ PERCE WOMAN

                                     NEZ PERCE MAN

                                                                                                                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                       

 

The Hupa and the Shasta were tribes that lived in northern California. The Cumash and the Salina people lived along the coastline. The Maidu and the Miwok lived in the desertlike eastern area and the Pomo lived in the area just north of what is now San Francisco.

southwest region: The Pueblo, Hopi and Zuni were descended from the Anasazi culture of 1,700 years ago. The Navajo and Apache came down from the north later.

 

   Hopi ceremonie

                                                                                                                                                                      Kachina

                                                                                                                                                                              doll

 

                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                                  

 

 

                                                                                     moondance

 

Rain was very important to the people of the southwest. In their ceremonies, they would perform rain dances in the hope that more rain would come.  

more about dances, arts &religion:

 

                      

                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                                                            

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                  

 

                                                                                                                                                                                               featherdance

                                                                            

                                  spiritdance                                                                                                                

 

 

 

The land of the Plains Native Americans stretched from the the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, and from Canada to Texas.

Groups like the Lakota and Dakota (Sioux), Pawnee and Arapaho lived in the northern and central part of the region. Tribes like the Kiowa, Apache and Comanche lived in the southern area. In the plains they became buffalo hunters.

                                                                                                                                                                 

             

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


National Archive Photo

This couple are from the Sioux tribe and are wearing ceremonial dress. The man is wearing a war bonnet decorated with eagle feathers. The circle on the side of his hat symbolizes the cycles of nature.

                                                                                                               

 

                                                                                                     

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 Tools used for hunting, building and eating were made from antlers and bones. The meat from the animal provided food.

The Navajo and the Apache came into the southwest area later.The Navajo are now the southwest's largest tribe.  

The Navajo tribe in New Mexico and Arizona built hogans.They are known for their skill at weaving.       


Library of Congress Image

In 1830 the United States government passed the Indian Removal Act because the government wanted the land that the Native Americans lived on. President Andrew Jackson ordered the U.S. Army to force the people from their land in the Southeast and move them to Oklahoma.Most of the people walked the whole way through cold, heat and rain. More than 4000 people died and that is why it is called the Trail of Tears.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wounded Knee (1890)

Note: Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota December 29, 1890.
For the Plains Indians this was the last act of defiance ending in a massacre carried out by Colonel James Forsyth's Seventh Cavalry. There would be no more battles but this 100+ years old memory is still a wound in many hearts. Perhaps the most famous Indian-fighting general in the U.S. Army at the time, General Nelson A. Miles, accused Forsyth of "blind stupidity or criminal indifference" and relieved him of command. General Miles called this "a useless slaughter of Indian women and children". But the war department, determined to portray this final confrontation of the Indian wars in a heroic light, stopped any further investigation of the incident.

 

More about Culture, Homes, Food, Clothing,Interesting Facts:                                      

 There were many Chiefs; Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Red Cloud,

more famous faces:                                                                                                                

Questions and answers about the Algonquian tribes in general:

Indian museums in the usa:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE DREAMCATCHER.

For hundreds of generations, certain elements of Native American peoples' spiritualism have been, and continue to be, handed down. One of these elements was the hoop. Some Native Americans of North America held the hoop in the highest esteem, because it symbolized strength and unity.

A lot of symbols evolved around the hoop, and one of these was the Dreamcatcher.

Using a hoop of willow, traditionally, and decorating it with findings, bits and pieces of everyday life, it is believed to have the power to catch all of a person's dreams, filtering out the bad ones, letting only the good dreams pass through.

May they also work for you........                                                                         more and how to make a dreamcatcher:  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                           

     

        

      

                                                                                                                                                                 

  

 

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