The specific number of culture areas delineated for Native America has been somewhat variable because regions are sometimes subdivided or conjoined. The 10 culture areas discussed below are among the most commonly used—theArctic, theSubarctic, theNortheast, theSoutheast, thePlains, theSouthwest, theGr...
Incursions by Europeans began in the Southwest in the 16th century. By the early 19th century, exploration and economic exploitation brought them into contact, and often conflict, with virtually all the indigenous mountain peoples. These encounters, along with shifting food supplies and intertribal ...
Some word experts who believe the word “Shenandoah” means “spruce river” because the waters of the river run through great forests of spruce trees(云杉).And this explanation could be correct. However, there is an old Native American story which is far more beautiful than that of the ...
Point D: Places of power often are distinguished by a natural feature: an impressive grove of large old trees, a pure spring, a deep lake, a fissure in the earth, or a mountain peak. These charismatic places are components of sacred landscapes of great natural beauty. Spiritual people take...
The Southwest Museum, Los Angeles The Battle of the Little Bighorn: Two Perspectives Two Views of the Greasy Grass Battle (Little BigHorn): The Native and the Non-Native One an Indian drawing by Red Horse, a Minneconjou Sioux, and an illustration which appeared in Harper's Weekly. ...
to let the smoke out. When it rained or snowed, the men were sent outside to wrap an extra piece of hide around the top of the tepee. The men always left a little room for the smoke to get out. The Plains people used little furniture. They slept on buffalo skins on the floor of...
In 2007, the salvage logging prescriptions were changed so that no living, fire-damaged trees with more than 50 % of their basal cambium living were harvested, and all remnant late and old seral trees greater than 53 cm dbh were re- tained whether they were dead or alive (USDA Forest ...
We used known鈥恌ate daily survival models to relate adult breeding season survival and nest survival to land cover composition, woody cover, and management actions on 5 study sites in southwest Missouri, USA. We collected 3,516 observations of daily nest survival from 364 bobwhite ...
pubescens than those of broadleaved trees31,32, the decomposition of litter in the MF and BF occurs more quickly in the topsoil, causing soil carbon and nitrogen reduction in the topsoil. Moso bamboo roots are mainly distributed in the surface 40 cm44, and root growth and exudation could ...
A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains (2001), and Ned Blackhawk, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (2006), similarly establish a deep context for understanding the native cultures of the Northwest and Southwest respectively, before extensiv...