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.
Sha-de’ Thomas Navajo Culture Research Paper Anthropology 101 Professor: Megan Douglas September 16, 2012 Who are the Navajos? It has been said that they are the largest Indian tribe in North America covering 27,000 square feet miles consisting of over 200,000 people. They live in the southwest region also called the four corners. The four states that connect to one another making up the four corners consist of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. The Navajo tribe originated from Canada about 1000 A.D.
II WIIA'I'I AM Luct TAPAHONSO It'I''~1 around h 'I"shoulders. Only her eyes were uncovered as she squinted, lookiu lit int the desert night "Niihiima deesk'aaz," her children called II 'I' hn .k in. be would come in for a while and then go back out to watch WHAT I AM Luci Tapahonso Going home is a recurring theme in Native American literature. Luci Tapahonso's home, the Navajo Reservation, extends .over parts of three states: northwestern New Mexico, northeastern ~nzona, and southeastern Utah. It covers more than twenty-five thousand square miles, an area slightly larger than the state of West Virginia.
Who Were and Is the Navajo Indians The Navajo Indian culture is one of great pride filled with sacred traditions, beliefs and ceremonies that have been handed down from generation to generation. Their cultural background and beliefs have been infused throughout their people and they take pride in making sure that their story and experiences are known throughout all of their cultural members, young and old. The background of the Navajo people, including their primary mode of subsistence, their beliefs and values (consisting the use of medicines and ceremonies for rituals), gender relations as well as economic and social organizations can teach us a great deal. I. Primary Mode of Subsistence a. Pastoral b. Forager II.
Name: Ayat Otolorin Article title: Reflections on Conservation, Sustainability, and Environmentalism in Indigenous North America Author: Shepard Krech III Source: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 107, No. 1 (Mar., 2005), pp. 78-86 Tribal Group Involved: Majority of Aboriginal Native Indians (All tribes) Issue / Summary: Krech is giving a response to the vast critiques on his work “The Ecological Indian” (1999). Krech’s definition of the ecological Indian explained the relationship as associating the people with ecological relationship.
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.
Neither Wolf nor Dog: A Tale of Two Cultures Growing Together Jake Waters Introduction This book is taking place in present time and depicts a real presentation of how the Lakota Indians lived and accurately depicts the way that they presented themselves in every way. The Lakota Indians were one of the original Native Americans tribes, often known as Red Indians ("The Lakota Tribes of the Great Plains - The Official Globe Trekker Website.") While reading this book, I was interested as to the way that the Native American Culture worked; more specifically, the way that the family was run. For example, the book talked about how the mother was the “center of the family.” In American culture, the fathers are typically the centers of the household because of how they are looked up to and considered the center of the family. It would be interesting to live in a society where that role was placed on the mother.
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 582 DeVRY UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR SPECTOR Tajuna Shape Tajuna629@gmail.com In reading Horace Miner’s article, “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” he describes the extreme rituals, customs and beliefs of a group of people North American people living the region between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico and the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles. Upon further reading and understanding of the article, as an anthropologist, I came to understand that Miner use of the word Nacirema in the title was deliberate. Nacirema is America spelled backwards. Miner was describing America’s extreme cultural and rituals on their physical appearance and maintaining a youthful lifestyle. In the article, Miner describes how a considerable amount of time is spent daily in ritualistic activities, preparing the body’s appearance and maintaining its health.
Native American healing is a subject that last for a lifetime of each native. Native american healing is very holistic in nature and takes place over the entirety of each individual natives life. In this paper I will discuss just a few of the native healing techniques, ranging from the taking of hallucinogenic sacrament such as the holy Ayahuasca and Peyote to meditative vision quests and herbal remedies. The sacred Ayahuasca is used traditionally by natives in south america, such as in Peru. However, like most native healing practices it is a practice that is open to non natives as well as natives as a healing techniques for just about any discomfort or dis-ease.
Race and Community Race and Community My community is in Union County Georgia. The population as of July 2009 was 21, 252 (City-Data.com, Sept). Union County is located at the center of the North Georgia Mountains. The area was originally inhabited by Native Americans; the Cherokee Indian’s. The white settlers moved in with the discovery of gold in 1820 (familypedia.wikia.com, 2011).