Front of Iroquois longhouse, northeastern US. (From a picture inHandbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1907.) Longhouses were constructed with vast wooden planks which were bound together with curved, framing wooden poles. The main part ...
Resource:Native American Rhymes- Native American Homes– 16 pages. Homes include Teepe, Plank house, Longhouse, Pueblo, Grass house, Pit house, Chickee, Wattle and daub, Wigwam, Igloo, Hogan Native American Names Discuss how many Native American names are taken from nature because nature is so...
Native American music - Drums, Flutes, Rattles: Musical instruments are important throughout the Americas. A few indigenous instruments can be made in an hour or two by virtually anyone in the community from materials readily available in the natural env
“NOTABLE NATIVE PEOPLE: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present” is an series of fifty profiles of Indigenous people from American Indian, Alaska Native, and Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) communities, with spreads on things like “Settler Colonialism 101,”“Who ...
So perfectly did these three plants synchronize that they were known in many Native North American languages as “The Three Sisters” and were a staple of diets in agrarian cultures all across pre-Columbian North America. But the gardens are not just symbolic, they provide an opportunity for ...