The Navajo Culture Anthropology 101 Professor Daniel Diaz Reyes December 12, 2011 Situated in the northeastern portion of Arizona and in the northwestern part of New Mexico is the Navajo reservation. The largest Indian reservation in the United States, The Navajo reservation stretched twenty five thousand square miles and encompasses sixteen acres this is now where the Dine (Navajo) call home. The Navajo people live by stringent guidelines when it come to economic and social and tending to the sick and healing practices. They speak with a Athabaskan language and they were located in the four corner section where Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico meet. There boundaries were set by an imposing treaty of 1868.
Aztecs and Mayans are two of specific extended family that lived in America, mainly Mexico. Both of them have a strong religion belief in their live; there is belief that influences them mostly. It is belief of gods. The Aztecs worshipped about 1.000 gods, but they worshipped sun god the most. Different from Aztecs, Mayans worshipped everything in nature and tried to explain how things happened because of the Gods.
Cody Ostlund SPA 101 Sec 1 4-17-11 Aztec Society The Aztecs were a very organized and religious society. The worshipped many deities, and performed sacrificial rituals to please their deities. Historians claim that the Aztecs first settled on an island called Aztlan, but moved south in the early 1100’s. They settled in neighboring cities, but their hosts found their violent behavior rude, so they were ran out of many cities. During their travels, the Aztecs came across lake Texcoco, where they saw an eagle perched on a cactus.
The Sinagua performed ceremonies and rituals in a lot of different arrangements like rectangular community rooms, and kivas. Some of the most important ceremonies they performed were communal hunting rituals. The ceremonies were led mostly by men, but compellingly they worshiped a goddess named Tihkuyiwugti. She was the mother of most of the animal they hunted like mountain sheep, bear, and deer. Also, fascinatingly, the witchdoctors would look for omens and try and look into the future by eating mushrooms to produce hallucinations.
(In Spanish) • Huichol Indian Culture and History • The Huichol and Pesticides Project • The Huichol and tobacco • Wixarika: Moving Medicine • Huichol literature, Indian.org: Indigenous People's Literature The Huichol Indians of the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico are known for their beautifully intricate yarn paintings and bead work. When producing a yarn painting they take peyote so that they can travel and talk with the spirits. It is important to see the reindeer in their travels because this means that they are in contact with the Gods and their communication is sacred. The artist uses what was seen to make these paintings. The Huichol Indians The Huichol Indians are a small tribe of approximately 15,000 living in central Mexico near Ixtlan in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
The Mayans used spears and traps to hunt animals like wild boar and deer. These traps were made from nets of long vines and leaves that would lead an animal to where the hunter wanted it to go. Their inventions were very cleaver; they laid out “trip wire” that would trigger a much larger spear like object that would kill a large animal instantly.
I'm a half brother and I'm full Navajo. The Nez Perces were able to aquire hunting tags for a Bison hunt near west Yellowstone in Gardiner Mt. We have always been told stories of how our predecessors used the buffalo. Our religion and prayers songs are all passed down from the buffalo culture so it was especially significant for us to be apart of this. My wife is Blackfeet from the plains and it was a special treat to sit down to a fresh buffalo tongue and roasted meat feast with our children.
The Diné: The People Elisabeth Vestal ANT 101 Dr. Geoff Wood July 1, 2013 The Diné: The People The Navajo are a pastoralist society living in western areas of North America. Their culture was changed when the Spaniards came to America. Their culture was influenced by the Pueblos. Additional changes came when America went to war. Through the different influences on the culture and lives of the Navajo they have continued to grow and influence other cultures.
The Navajo Indians, the largest tribe in North America, live in the Northeast Corner of Arizona. This paper will be about one of the first true Americans namely the Navajo Indians. It will describe their gender relations, sickness and healing, and social change. References Hossain, Z. (2001).
The culture and traditions of the Navajo tribe continues to be respected and is influential in their way of life. Their relationship with the land exemplifies its primary mode of subsistence. II. Gender role a. Female 1.