“Rifles, Blankets, and Beads” delivers an entertaining perspective on the Northern Athapaskan village of Tanacross. This book is an outstanding resource to anthropologists, students, and educators. In reviewing this book, the author brings a descriptive writing style when analyzing the Northern Athapaskan village of Tanacross culture and history with a focus on the potlatch giving us insight details how the potlatch is seen and celebrated among the Tanacross people. The author, William E. Simeone, is a great source on the Northern Athapaskan village of Tanacross because he lived there among the people. In addition to living there he also attended ceremonies in both Tanacross and surrounding villages, and participated in potlatches within
The chapter opens with a Sioux sweat lodge ceremony. Dennis Linn wants you to imagine the physical and emotional feelings, which emanate from the ceremony. The medicine man thanks God for all creatures including man. Those in the ceremony are thankful to God and ask forgiveness of all those they have hurt and extend forgiveness to those who have hurt them. The author thought it was a primitive superstition.
David Berkowitz, also known as Son of Sam and the “.44 Caliber Killer”, is an American serial killer who, in New York City, murdered six people and injured seven. The Son of Sam killings –as his murder spree incident was called- began on July 29, 1976 with Donna Lauria and Jody Valenti who were both sitting in their car when a man peered into their window and fired multiple times at them. Jody survived the rainfall of bullets but her partner was not so lucky. Couple of months later, the police noted that this could be the work of a serial killer. David Berkowitz, whose birth name was David Falco, was adopted by Nat and Pearl Berkowitz a couple of days after his birth day, on June 1, 1953.
Other than being the main characters, John Marcher from The Beast in the Jungle and the Narrator from The Figure in the Carpet have something in common. Both John and the Narrator spent a lot of time thinking, wondering, and trying to find out some sort of secret- but the answers, there or not, are negative in both stories. The Narrator’s curiosity of the secret behind Mr. Vereker’s wonderful writing was slowly destroying his life, because he wasn’t getting any answers, and whether he knew or not, never would. John Marcher almost lets his fear of the ‘Beast’ in his future run his life because (In the end, the Narrator suffers from a loss of time and no answer to his painfully curious question, and John suffers from the waste of his life, and
The Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma is a confederation tribe that has been relocated several times, was affected significantly by the Civil War, and has overcome many adversities. The Peoria Tribe’s original language was Algonquian due to it’s pre-columbian ancestors, which is no longer used. The small amount of the tribe that lives in Oklahoma speak Cahokia, Moingwea, and Tamaroa. The name “Peoria” comes from French woodsmen and means, “he comes carrying a pack on his back”. The tribe adopted the religion of Christianity, specifically Roman Catholicism, and the traditional tribal religions.
The Dakota Access Pipeline is a underground oil pipeline. Part of the pipeline is on Native American territory. To get access to the pipeline, burial grounds of the Natives Americans would have to be annihilated, going against the tradition of Native American culture. In the article,”
As the son of a Comanche chief and a white captive by the name of Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker rose from the status of a Comanche warrior to their tribal leader. Although not much is known about Parker’s personal life and early years, he plays a vital role in William T. Hagan’s book “Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief”. In this book, Hagan identifies the Comanche Chief through his upbringing to his death, describing his transactions with local Indian agents, presidents, high officials in Washington and the cattlemen of the western United States territory. The author presents the Indian chief as a “cultural broker” between the cultures of the white southerners and his tribal members, presenting a blend of beliefs that are heralded as progressive and traditional as he maintained the control and organization of his tribe. During a period of transition for the Comanche people,
We are not so much different.” (Pollock, 106) When Sitting Bull offers Clarence the pipe, we see a unity between the indigenous and the NWMP, even if it is an inconsequential amount. The sharing of the pipe also represents the
There has been a resurge in the importance of traditional Hawaiian art, of the gods and not of the gods, but even so the clear want to save these traditions is there. Traditional Hawaiian objects have become important to contemporary Native Hawaiians for the recovery of cultural practices that have either been lost or are endanger of becoming lost. [In reference to a wooden image, a god image ki’i’aumakua, insert here.] They argued that this sculpture belonged to a warrior chief who used it on a war canoe as a spear rest in times of battle. Because of the images connection to the warrior chief, there is an insistence that it must be preserved because of it’s importance and connection to the Hawaiian people.
The Lakota Sioux, facing pressure to conform to “civilized” norms, adopted a new belief consisting of a central creed, code, and cultus. This
From the time American children are able to go to school, they are taught, that the US government has always been and is the one main group that the citizens of the United States can trust with everything, but as time has passed, what has happened to this trust bond and why? The government has a lot of influence on today’s society and their decision making processes, such as the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Great Planes Expanse, Border patrol, job creations, and government spendings are all huge parts in today’s dispute over whether or not to go through with it. The Dakota access pipeline, if it is gone through with, it is going to go through sacred Native American burial grounds but, this pipeline will boost today’s economy and create more jobs.
This story started out depicting who the Sioux tribe was and later describes how the Sioux tribe was chosen to receive the pipe, so to speak, by the Buffalo Calf Woman. As the author of this story notes, the members of this tribe believed that everything, whether that be people or animals, came from the Great Spirit, who was named Wakan-Tanka,otherwise deemed as God (2-3). The author has seen to have included this to show the reader that the tribe believed that everything on Earth had an origin. Later on, a woman, otherwise known as the Buffalo Calf Woman, who is wearing, as the author notes, an outfit that was comprised out of skin from a buck, which is a male animal (15), brings an object, that as the author notes, is a pipe which serves
A predominant Native American country, the Cherokee controlled unfathomable domains spreading transversely over Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas. The Cherokee were clever people who regarded nature and utilized all aspects of a creature after a killing, yet they were additionally superstitious. Deep-rooted techniques joined with community old stories and polytheistic religion prompted a profoundly novel arrangement of hunting traditions/rituals among the Cherokee. At the point when young men wished to be hunters they needed to converse with the minister, who was responsible for preparing them.
The earliest depiction of extreme height is within mythology where giants play many roles, often representing powerful natural forces that frighten and threaten humans. In the mythology of the Native American Lakota people, Waziya is a northern giant who personifies the north wind, blown from his mouth. While in constant battle with the southern winds, he is responsible for the snow, ice and delights in causing winter deaths. This may be a myth for the Lakota people to explain the seasonal change and a subject to release their anguish at over the devastation of frosted crops and deaths.
The mound builders associated great value to fire. Fire played a very important role in the culture and traditions of Native Americans and although it was not the main role in their ceremonies and rituals it was the building blocks of them. To the Native Americans, fire was like a messenger and a gift from their great spirit. The smoke of the fire was used to clean sacred items such as drums, shakers, and pipes before the use of them during ceremonies and rituals. Fire was a symbol of the heart of the people to the Native Americans and the smoke of the fire was a symbol of the prayers carried to their great
