Native American Music Also known as ‘Amerindian’ music, the Native American music is a widespread tradition used as a form of spiritual representation of many aspects of the culture. Together with dance, their use of music in culture is hugely important in order to maintain traditions thousands of years old. So as to fully understand the different types of Native American music, we must also acknowledge the large scope of different Native American tribal units that play this music. Cultural Areas Although most of the Native American music style, along with aspects of their culture, is homogenous, there is evidence that before being forced to move to North American reservations, the Amerindians were divided into separate segments of culture. There are known to be around 1000 tribal units with almost as many languages, as well as 60 independent language families within North America.
Describe three typical life-cycle ceremonies and give an example of each from a specific indigenous religion. Indigenous religions, which are very often called “native,” “local,” “ethnic,” or “traditional” belong to the world’s sixth largest religious group, if considered as a section. They are highly correlated to the ancient interpretation of humankind’s great traditions, and their visions about the world around them. Such religions are largely practiced among “the tribal people,” where its roots had been discovered in Africa, and later on continued in: India, Australia (Aborigines), New Zealand (Maoris), Central/Southeast Asia, and Latin America (Santa Clara University/Indigenous Religion). As well as many other religions/likewise, traditional religions belong to those, whom practicing and celebrating life-cycle rituals play an essential role throughout the one’s life.
The folktales embody the culture of the Cherokee through traditional teaching, reflecting the true spirit and history of the Cherokee. Color means many different things to different people. It represents feeling and cultures. Symbolic hues of red, white, blue, and black signify the power of the Cherokee lore. Cherokee Indians use a symbolic color system.
The horses that escaped to Eurasia became domesticated and then reintroduced to North America by the Spanish. Many of these horses were either traded to Native Americans or had escaped to form wild herds able to spread throughout North America. A popular legend says that Indians first obtained horses through lost or abandoned horses by the Spanish explorer expeditions led by De Soto and Coronado in 1541. More recent studies have proven that this was not the case. They were truly introduced by 17th century Spanish stock-raising settlements of the Southwest, especially in Santa Fe and San Antonio.
“Earth-Diver: Creation of the Mythopoeic Male” Matthews, Washington. “Myths of Gestation and Parturition” Reader's Guide Background The Cheyenne, a Native American people, have inhabited the North American continent for centuries. During the seventeenth century, the Cheyenne migrated from the Great Lakes region to the central plains. Their life on the plains was firmly linked with nature in general-and with the buffalo in particular. They came to depend upon the buffalo for their livelihood, and they made use of virtually every part of the animal: its flesh, its hide, and even its bones.
The three main styles that seem most relevant are the Sioux Grass Dance, the music of the Zuni tribe and the Iroquis Quiver Dance. It is also important to look at the specific roles of members of the tribes, such as women compared to men, as these were sacred customs to the Natives. Generally, there were three types of songs Native Americans sang; traditional songs, which were passed down from generation to generation, ceremonial and medicinal songs, which were perceived in dreams, and modern songs which showed some influence of European civilization. This culture is an extremely interesting one to explore because the Native American music is so different and just a completely unique type of art in its own. Contrary to popular belief, the Native American culture was extremely large and diverse.
For many years the Navajo adopted many practices and regulations from the Pueblos Indians. Another name of the Navajo people is Dine which means the people because they all are considered one. The Navajos, a semi-nomadic from the 16th to 20th century hail from the south western United States and are considered the largest federally recognized tribe in the U.S(Linford 2000). The Navajo are a matrilineal society in which they move often in search of naturally occurring pastures to feed their heard.. This culture began as large hunters and gathers until the Spanish arrived and introduced the practice of animal herding into this culture.
The cattle barons and homesteaders/ farmers are linked up together through history since the time of the gold rush when cattle barons started to really show up in the west as a dominant force even though the farmers and homesteaders could have overwhelmed them. Cattle barons are large ranch and cattle owners who took over parts of Wyoming and thought they could do what they wanted (Old West Legends). Some cattle barons teamed up together to enforce their rule and to take over more land. Homesteaders on the other hand were like farmers but they went from living off the land to living in the land and finally to change the land to fit their needs. They would get new equipment or new breakthroughs in equipment or technology and what not to increase production and things of that nature (Two Old West Legends).
The Western cattle industry was Mexican and Texan by ancestry. Mexican ranchers had developed techniques and equipment that the cattlemen and cowboys used long before the citizens of the United States entered the Southwest. An estimated 5 million cattle roamed the Texas ranges by the end of the Civil War and the eastern markets offered high prices for them. The challenge was getting the animals from the range to the railroad centers and that is where the jobs for cowboys formed. There was a big difference between the real cowboy and the American myth.
Through Indian Literature we learn that the Native American Indians came across many things differently then we do today. They had many different customs and traditions that were passed on from generation to generation. The Native American Indians had many different views on creation legends, the government, and relations with others. Together these stories, “How the World Was Made,” “From the Iroquois Constitution,” and “Offer of Help” made it possible for us to discover what their input was. The Native American Indians had many different views on how the world was made, which they called creation legends.