Navajo and Pueblo Jewelry 1940 - 1970 Preface The Navajo Nation today is the largest Native American tribe in both population and geographical size (27,000 square miles; 300,048 people).The reservation is primarily in northern Arizona, stretching west to Grand Canyon National Park, north into Utah and east into New Mexico. The Pueblo people are a Native American people in the Southwestern United States. (Fig.2) Their traditional economy is based on agriculture and trade. When first encountered by the Spanish in the 16th century, they were living in villages that the Spanish called pueblos, meaning "towns". Of the 21 pueblos that exist today, Taos, Acoma, Zuni, and Hopi are the best-known.
The Kinship System of the Native American Iroquois According to a 1990 census, there are 49,038 Iroquois living in the United States today. This makes them the eighth largest tribe. (Hall, 2011) The kinship system of the Iroquois was an important part of how they lived as a horticultural society. Their kinship consisted of their matrilineal descent groups, marriage to keep their kinship closely together, and the way they used reciprocity in sharing their food. They used matrilineal descent groups to trace their ancestors and select marital partners.
The Navajo Nation is the largest Indian reservation in the United States, comprising about 16 million acres or about 25, 000 miles, approximately the size of the state of West Virginia. In studying the Navajos
It covers more than twenty-five thousand square miles, an area slightly larger than the state of West Virginia. There are more than two hundred thousand Navajos today. Tapahonso belongs to a matrilineal society in which women own the property and pass inheritance through their clans. In the Navajo kinship system, each Navajo child is born into four different, unrelated clans: the mother's clan, the father's clan, and the maternal and paternal grandfathers' clans. The kinship system also extends to the natural world and the gods.
Cherokee Women Essay Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 In Theda Perdue’s novel Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 the last remark in her conclusion stated “The story of Cherokee women, therefore, is not one of declining status and lost culture, but one of persistence and change, conservatism and adaption, tragedy and survival (p.195) was a statement to justify how the life of Cherokee culture thrived in numerous ways from the beginning of their generations to the time when the Europeans came and conformed their ways of living. The Cherokee culture faced numerous transitions under the rule of the Europeans, which they could not control. Women especially, during this time made several sacrifices in order to belong to a new world they were so foreign to. Many may argue how the Cherokees changed their ways of living to abide by European satisfaction; however it wasn’t a sense of change, though a matter of making provisions for a better life, while preserving values and traditions which emphasized who they will always be as a society. Such provisions allowed Cherokee Indians to adapt to an unknown world, where their gender roles and culture, heritage, and concepts changed tremendously.
Her efforts of selfless dedication played a major role in the ratification of the 14th amendment of the United States Constitution giving women the right to vote in 1920. Keywords: Susan B. Anthony, abolitionist, women’s rights, equality SUSAN B. ANTHONY 3 Susan B. Anthony American Women’s Leader and Abolitionist Susan Brownell Anthony, born on February 15, 1820 to Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony was an accomplished and prominent American women’s leader and spent most of her life advocating for women’s social and legal equality. Fellow feminist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) and Anthony co-founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association of which Anthony first served as vice president and later president. Anthony’s maternal grandfather, Daniel Read fought in the American Revolution, later serving in the Massachusetts legislature while her father was a strict but open-minded cotton manufacturer and abolitionist. Anthony’s
Navajo Shavonda McClennon Cultural Anthropology Dr. Newton February 6, 2012 The Southwestern United States is famous for it’s fascinating and enchanting land and the people who live there. Many different native people including the Paiute, the Zuni, the Apache, the Havasupai, the Yavapai, the Pima, the Maricopa, the Papago, the Tewa, and the Hopi, live and work in the area. Many of these tribes are known as the Pueblo Indians, a name obtained from their custom of living in apartment-style adobe dwellings. By observing these natives the Navajo people learned valuable ways to survive in the harsh desert. This ability has helped the Navajo to remain a powerful nation that it is today.
The Cheyenne Indians are originally from the, the Great Plains and are composed of three united tribes, Masikota, the Sotaae, and the Tsêhéstâhese, and they call themselves ,” Tsitsistas”, which translate to “like hearted people”. The Cheyenne Nation consists of ten bands throughout the Great Plains and later the tribe split into two groups. Which consist of the southern band living near the Platte Rives, and the Northern band living near the Lakota tribes. The Cheyenne Indians are considered one of the most famous Native American Indians because of their history and culture. According to historians their history can be traced back to more than two hundred years.
Native American Tribes Native Americans are indigenous people. They were said to be the first people in America. They settle in different parts of the country and formed tribes. In 1492 there were over 300 Native American languages. There are several tribes but some of the popular ones are the Sioux, Cherokees, and Chippewa’s.
When American soldiers arrived in the Southwest during the Mexican War in 1846, and until 1863, many treaties were signed and broken. In 1864, approximately 9000 Navajo men, women, and children were forced on what is now known as The Long Walk. Subjugated and made to walk three hundred miles to Fort Sumter in New Mexico after their homes, fields, and crops were destroyed, the Navajo were made to attend school, work land, and convert to Christianity. They suffered for four years, and in 1868 the American authorities