The Chumash were skilled craftsmen. They made fine baskets for storage, offerings and gifts. The Chumash Indians were known to weave beautiful blankets from feathers. The Chumash Indians built dome-shaped houses they call ‘aps. These were usually 12 to 20 feet long.
The worship of the Great Spirit was the main thing to their beliefs. A dance performed called the Sun Dance was a way to show respect and love for their God. When the Europeans arrived on North American land it caused a major change for the Plains Indians over the following years, but many still exist in some form and try to maintain their traditions from generation to generation. | Task: Using information from the documents and your knowledge of social studies, answer the questions that follow each document in Part A. Your answers to the questions will help you to complete the evidence organizer in Part B and to begin the response to the following: MY TASK IS… * Discuss the social, political, and economic effects westward expansion had on the lives and culture of the Plains Indians from 1860-1890.
Blackfeet chiefs wore long tall feather headdresses. Both men and women wore moccasins on their feet and buffalo-hides as robes in the winter. The dresses and shirts were decorated with porcupine quills, beads, and elk teeth. Some painted their face for special occasions. They used different patterns for war, religious ceremonies, and festivals.
Howling Wolf’s Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek Lodge After viewing both of the drawings, I actually thought that Taylor’s drawing was the honest one, but after reading the chapter and viewing the presentation, I now have a better understanding of why Wolf’s drawing is the more honest one. Being that Wolf is a Native American, his drawing focuses more on the Western cultural and tradition, such as decorating the tipis and the women’s garments. He shows the women as being the dominant ones by drawing more of them with their backs to the viewers as they focus on the signing ceremony of the treaty. His painting he also depicts the tradition of the women’s braided hair showing their part painted red as a way for the Plains warriors to show
These quilts were made of “bits and pieces of Grandpa Jarrell’s paisley shirts…”, “…scraps of dresses Grandma Dee had worn fifty and more years ago…”, and “…one teeny faded blue piece, about the size of a penny matchbox, that was from Great Grandpa Ezra’s uniform that he worn in the Civil War” (Walker, 2011, p. 1091-1092). The value of these quilts is priceless to Mama which is made very clear in the way they are described. Dee notices the quilts for their cultural and historical value only due to the stitching that was done by hand and the materials that were used to make them. Maggie had already been promised these quilts by Mama and the reaction that was given by Maggie when she discovers Dee wanted them presents the more emotional and personal attachment for them also. "Maggie can't appreciate these quilts!"
The two quilts were pieced together by Grandma Dee and Big Dee, the narrator’s mother and sister, and made with the scraps from the dresses of Grandma Dee and bits and pieces of Grandpa Jarrell’s shirts and Great Grandpa Ezra’s faded blue piece from the uniform he wore in the Civil War. The mother must decipher which daughter is deserving of the quilts based on her daughter’s plans of use. Dee in the story planned to
She along with many other girls learned bead work. They did this so that they could have doll clothing made from beads. Women were depended on for doing things like gathering and preparing food, worked in fields, collected wood and got clean water to use. Women also did things around the house. For example, they would make and mend clothes from tanned hides, do chores around the house, but most important, they built the houses.
The Native American, also known as the American Indian, was the original inhabitants of the American land as we know it today. Prior to the coming of European explores the American Indian consisted of hundreds of different tribes and cultures throughout America. American Indians believed they were created from earth, water and stars. 10 – 90 million Native Americans inhabited America at the time of the European arrivals. The Indian man was hunter and warrior, while women took care of the children, cultivated and harvested crops, ground grains for making flour and maintained the tents.
What early colonial prosperity there was resulted from trapping and trading in furs. In addition, fishing was a primary source of wealth in Massachusetts. But throughout the colonies, people lived on small farms and were selfsufficient. In the few small cities and among the larger plantations of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, some necessities and all luxuries were imported in return for tobacco, rice, and indigo exports. To conclude, economics was the most important role in the establishment of European colonies.
“Native American Sweat” I arrived at the location just as it was getting dark. I wore shorts and was bare-chested like most of the men that were there. The women that attended wore long skirts and t-shirts. The sweat lodge was built directly on the earth with no floor but the dirt the earth has given us. Constructed of thin wood that had been bent in an arch, the lodge was an oval shape approximately 15 feet by 7 feet in diameter.