Choctaw Religion And Spirituality In Shell Shaker's Shakbatina

Ranging from the south Alleghenies mountain range all the way down to the south of Georgia and far west of Alabama, lived the Cherokee Indians. They were a powerful detached tribe of the Iroquoian family and were commonly called Tsaragi which translates into "cave people." This tribe was very prominent in what is now called the U.S, but over time has been split up or run out of their land because of social or political encounters with the new settlers from Europe. Despite the dispersion or the split amongst this tribe, they still obtained their core religious beliefs, practices and ceremonies. Their detailed belief system, fundamental beliefs, significant meanings, and their connection to song and dance make up their religious system. The early

The Meskwaki is a Native American tribe that is settled in region across the United States. Also know as the fox tribe they are Algonquian language speaking group that have settlements in modern day Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska.

His unique influence encompasses a conscious attempt to revive the native values, calling the Native American people back to the land and to their cultural identity. His most notable legacy is the Ghost Dance, which “spread to almost all Indian groups in the western half of the United States” (Kane, p. 34). This dance was part of the reformative religion, in which Wilson played an important role in adopting the Christian elements taught by the whites while revitalizing the Native American’s faithfulness to traditional beliefs. His message now receives mixed acceptance among the Paiute people, where “some people think [he] was a healer, and some say he was a kind of miracle worker, and some others, they think her was a crook…” (Kane, p. 33). Sadly, Eileen Kane discovers the man who once drew thousands was now becoming more of a historic versus religious leader, a myth as opposed to a prophet. While at one time the role of his reformative religion united the Native Americans and provided hope for those used to prejudice and being treated as inferior by the whites (Kane, p. 210), his practices had mostly died out. However, the memoir still highlights the importance of his religious movement in shaping the current religious and cultural path of the Paiute

The Chickasaws history, religion, social traditions, and way of life make them unique. This is what makes the tribe still relevant in today’s society. The culture and traditions of the Chickasaw helped to define the people’s everyday life in the past and present. For these reasons the Chickasaw will continue to be known for generations to

The Choctaw Indian Tribe is very different in terms of the roles of the men and the women. Women assume the position of leader in most cases. However, they all have to work together. Men, women, and children have to come together to help the tribe to function.

Theda Perdue`s Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835, is a book that greatly depicts what life had been like for many Native Americans as they were under European Conquering. This book was published in 1998, Perdue was influenced by a Cherokee Stomp Dance in northeastern Oklahoma. She had admired the Cherokee society construction of gender which she used as the subject of this book. Though the title Cherokee Women infers that the book focuses on the lives of only Cherokee women, Perdue actually shines light upon the way women 's roles affected the Native cultures and Cherokee-American relations. In the book, there is a focus on the way that gender roles affected the way different tribes were run in the 1700 and 1800`s. Native

The Tequesta Indians were a small, humble and calm tribe. First tribe in South Florida and made Biscayne Bay their home giving them an abundance of plants, ani-mals and materials for the production of tools and crafts materials. Their power and dominance made them second among the small tribes of Florida’s southeast coast. The Tequesta were hunters and gatherers. They gather nuts, berries and plants. They also hunted sea life. Manatee was consider a special meal to them. The men were in charger of hunting and the woman in charge of collecting clams, plants and nuts.The good environment by Biscayne Bay helped them become thrive without relaying agricul-ture or farming. becoming one of the two tribes to do so. In 1998 an apartment was be-ing demolish in Miami, an archaeologist found a fascinating image. He asked the city to allow him to investigate the site before work was done. Its supposed to

The Shoshone was a Native American tribe in the western Great Basin in the United States. This tribe was spread into the north and east Idaho and Wyoming. The Shoshone religion was Shoshone rituals. Their population was approximately 8000 members at first, but their population began to increase about 20,000 members. There were three classes in Shoshone tribe, which were the chief and shaman, trading partners, and the servants. The chiefs’ roles were to focus on warfare and hunts. As a result, the Shoshone tribe does fit perfectly into the “tribes” category. On the other hand, the Shoshone tribe is also somehow fit into the “bands” category. The Shoshone tribe was divided into three small bands, which were Eastern Shoshone, Northern Shoshone,

In Oglala Women, Myth, Ritual and Reality, Marla Powers portraits a powerful Native American community- Oglala, one of the main tribes of the Lakota (allied people) alliance located on the Oglala Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. They are known for being one of the biggest reservations in the United States who won the war in 1868 against the United States. In this book, Powers focuses on the women’s role within their community and how their sacred traditions and religion shaped their culture. Therefore, by using various readings on Lakota practices, this paper will examine the gender roles in Oglala culture in terms of marriage, religion and the effect that Americanization and Christianity have had on their culture and how they compare

October 1, 1734 marks the date that Chickasaw tribe was attacked. This battle lead to the answer of how the paint horses got there markings. It all started when the Chickasaw tribe invaded the camps of the Cherokee Indians, and abducted the wife 's and kids of the Cherokees. The Chickasaw men were envious of the Cherokee men for their ability, to create strong families; considering, the Chickasaw men were unable to marry, due to a curse set upon them by the artisans in 400 BC. If the Chickasaw men wanted to break this curse they were to abduct the families in plain sight from the Cherokee men.

The name "Seminole" came about from the tribe's original name of yat'siminoli meaning "free people". That was the name the Seminoles had referred to themselves as because of their refusal to be conquered and converted by the "white man". The Seminole Tribe has long had a unique history with both the land of the Southeastern United States, and with the government of the United States. Their relationship with the land has been drastically altered as the result of three Seminole wars which displaced and relocated the Seminole tribe. As a result of the persecution by President Andrew Jackson, members from a variety of tribes in the Southeast United States began migrating into Spanish Florida to seek refuge. All who migrated into Spanish Florida

This novel is put into three different main sections. The first one is “The Setting Out”, which has chapters about legends of the Kiowa people. This section also describes the Kiowa culture such as why the plants, and the animals

The United States Government formally recognizes over five hundred tribes within the fifty states. These recognized tribes are qualified for funding and other various services through grants and contracts with the government along with other sources. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians represents one of the federally recognized tribes in the United States. Located in eight reservation communities throughout Mississippi, it consists of almost 10,000 registered members. Throughout the past couple of years, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians has faced several financial burdens regarding funding for the tribe. It is important to have appropriate finances to ensure stability of the tribe and to set a secure foundation for future generations.

European groups formed judgements about indigenous peoples and their traditions because they were judging those people and events through the values of European cultures (Berkhofer 27). Howe begins the novel with a detailed scene of a woman describing Choctaw life styles and how everything in Choctaw that took place in Choctaw life “was a series of games and dances” (Howe chapter 1). Through providing a detailed account, Howe is able to differentiate her tribe from the conglomeration of in which all indigenous peoples have become a part (Berkhofer 25). Howe also uses details to differentiate her tribe when she describes the execution that occurs as a part of a tradition (Howe chapter 1), and she does this to explain the tradition and different beliefs that Choctaws have held through time (“Business of Theory making” 336). Although the sacrifice of Shakbatina is a bloody one completed with a club, it is meant to be one of peace in order to resolve all of the issues between her clan and another (Howe chapter 1). Howes description of these events creates theories that redefine history and the perceptions of people who read her theories (“The Business of Theory making

The Cherokee people, like all Native American tribes, possess an extensive, ancient oral history. Before European contact and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, the only way the Cherokees could pass on the legends within their history was by word of mouth or in other words through storytelling. Their stories included justifications for the origin of Earth and mankind, good human morals and values, and Cherokee culture rituals. Diane Glancy, author of Pushing The Bear, does a great job in conveying the importance of storytelling in Cherokee culture. Glancy creates a story about cultural fragmentation and how the procession of the novel goes from being a disaster to being a success for the