Tlingit: American Indian People

The Native Americans of the Northeast’s communication is Iroquoian and Algonquian. The Cayuga, Oneida, Erie, Seneca, Onondaga, and Tuscarora spoke the Iroquoian language. The Algonquian language is going extinct, there for they are learning different languages to speak with other tribes. The Northeast language is endangered because they wanted to speak different languages to speak with different tribes. Their number system was made up of various shapes and lines (located next to the tepes). Their writing system was made of many different symbols and animal like shapes that represent different letters. All together the Native Americans of the Northeast’s communication was very difficult to speak and

A vast amount of time had passed among the first inhabitants of Alaska and when the Ipiutak first emerged. The first evidence of the Ipiutak occurred around ca 1,800 uncal. BP and only lasted to ca. 1000 uncal. BP. The Ipiutak culture only lasted around 800 years, but among that time they made major impacts and offered great insight on how to survive in the arctic. Too fully understand how the Ipiutak people survived in the harsh arctic environment of northwestern Alaska one needs to fully understand Alaska and its climate and ecosystems, as this will give better insight into their everyday challenges, and why the Ipiutak lived like they did.

Pocahontas is a member of the Powhatan tribe and she lives in the eastern woodland region. If you were wondering, she has more than one name her names are Pocahontas, matoaka, and amonute. She also lives in Virginia.

The White Dawn follows the lives of three whalers, who are stranded and then saved by the native Inuit. The sailors Pilee, Portagee, and Kakuktak, each have their own way of fitting in and connecting with the people. They have to deal with people whom they cannot talk to, and who share different customs. It can be argued that Kakuktak is the most successful in his quest to integrate himself within the tribe.

From eight present-day states; Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina, more than forty thousand square miles, lived the largest Native American tribe in the United States. The Cherokee. The Cherokee were once a very powerful tribe, they had lived and hunted in a large area of land. Like many Native American tribes, the Cherokee had called themselves “the real people” or the “principal people”. In Cherokee, that word is Ani-Yun-wiya.

People of the Pacific Coast and the People of the Arctic have lived in Canada more than 12,000 years! The People of the Pacific Coast and the people of the Arctic both have lived on flat grounds, and never on big hills or even mountains! But the people of the Pacific Coast were very spiritualism about there Moon, Earth and what was always going on. The people of the Arctic used industrially as a way to produce and create tools to reduce manual labor in cost. One of the major cultural elements that began to flourish on the Pacific Northwest Coast was the use of music and other forms of arts and craft, began to flourish on the Pacific Northwest Coast was the use of music and other forms of arts and craft. The people of the Arctic had a myth, “ the ancestors of modern Inuit Colonized

Jim Knutson-Kolodzne is an Anishannabe and was raised W.G.C. in Jefferson, Wisconsin. He is an enrolled member of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, director of the American Indian Center at St. Cloud State University and he also teaches psychology of racism classes. He talked about American Indians in Minnesota and how there are 864 American Indian tribes and it is impossible for someone to know everything about every tribe.

“Rifles, Blankets, and Beads” delivers an entertaining perspective on the Northern Athapaskan village of Tanacross. This book is an outstanding resource to anthropologists, students, and educators. In reviewing this book, the author brings a descriptive writing style when analyzing the Northern Athapaskan village of Tanacross culture and history with a focus on the potlatch giving us insight details how the potlatch is seen and celebrated among the Tanacross people.

/ Tlingit Tribe / Pronounced- TLING - GIT Culture- Men hunted and women cooked and farmed Foods- Abundance of fish, they also lived by gathering berries and hunting Animals of importance- Fish Levels of society- chief, always men Language- English, only elders know their native language Clothing- Cloth robes Landscape- rivers / Tututni / Fought with the Europeans for gold in 1856 Met europeans in 1700s 75% of them died to disease Lived along the Rogue River Also called the Lower Rogue River Athabascan tribe / Tsimshian / Clan based cultural system Had 4 main clans Southern Alaska Ate fish Also called the Chimmesyan tribe

An American Indian tribe from South Dakota did the unthinkable. "Lazy" Indians who always rely on handouts (because that 's the stereotype) rejected a lot of money from the Washington R*dskins http://www.care2.com/causes/federal-judge-cancels-racist-nfl-team-names-trademark.html

If there’s something every country and the whole world has in common it’s that they were all home to native tribes, whether it was the Aztecs, Cherokees, Inuit, Nuer, Hadza or Incas and many more. Hugh Brody, a British anthropologist, writer, director and lecturer, writes about a tribe of hunters in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic of North America, who are known as Inuit. In his piece, “The other Side of Eden”, written in 2001, Brody argues that we still judge hunter-gatherers although we are the ones that dramatically and drastically changed their life because of our modern life styles. Ironically Brody named his piece, “The other Side of Eden”, alluding to The First Book of Moses, Genesis 2, or also known as “Genesis of the Garden of Eden”,

The Cherokee are a tribe consisting of native americans. They were located by the mountanious souths where a complex river system reached the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf Of Mexico, and Mississipi Basin, in the present day the were located in small portions of georgia,tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, Virginia and West Virginia. The Cherokee developed extensive relations with many indeginous people and the United States. The Cherokee 's economic conditions were good, they traded with other tribes and with the U.S. Over time a conflict came up which was that Georgia wanted to remove the Cherokees from their land. A lot of preassure from congress saying the Cherokees would not be protected made part of

Ever since the widespread colonization of the Americas in the 16th century, popular perception of the diverse Native American culture by the ‘civilized’ world has changed dramatically, from one of mutual understanding between tribes and a begrudging respect from the first settlers of the New World, to a modern culture where finding a ceremonial headdress in a halloween store is not so rare an occurrence.

The economy of the Tlingit Indians was originally based on trade. They traded food, furs, canoes, shells, fish oil, and Chilkat robes with other tribes. The Chilkat robe cost approximately $30 in the mid-1800s. The only items that came close to the Chilkat robe’s value were caribou hides, copper, and guns. In the 1900s, Tlingit Indians started to work in canneries, basing their economy on wages and fishing (Malinowski, Sheets, Schmittroth 1268). The Tlingit Indians’ economy evolved from trading based to more of a wage based economy. The Tlingit Indians have adapted to the present day American life style. With these adaptations, Tlingit Indians now work in logging and forestry, fishing, tourism, and other industries. Many also earn wages

The Yakamas of the Washington Yakama Indian Reservation are losing significant sources of traditional ethnobotanical knowledge due to the rise of ecological problems, conflicts in resource management, and sociocultural losses among the generations. From these rising problems, traditional knowledge that influence many aspects of the Yakama culture and traditions are at risk of being forgotten. Over generations, Yakama traditional knowledge has been used as an important source of food, to identify materials for making baskets, and how to grow herbs for medicinal treatments. Language has also played an important role in