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| city on the foothills of the Allegheny River that lies almost completely on an Indian reservation owned by the Seneca Tribe (one of the 6 nations of the Iroquois). The Seneca Nation is the only tribe to own a U.S. city. |
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| largest language group of the Athapaskan language family. resided througout the Northern regions of the four prairie provinces. they lived in harsh climates and hunted/gathered food. they lived in groups of 20-30 people but would always help each other out. like the Iroquois, they had huge respect for animals and tried their best to understand the animals, believing that they were once humans. |
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| annual rounds made to gather/hunt food for the remainder of the year in order to make the best use out of the natural resources. the size of trhe groups would vary from hunting individually to hunting in small groups, depending on the time of the year and the type of hunting. |
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| the ongoing importance of hunting (social organization), reciprocity, and shared meals. In terms of reciprocity, gifts of meat and "payments" for labor were especially important. |
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| a new technology that the Apache (?) recently began to utilize. While some may see it as part of assimilation, the Apache are actually using snowmobiles to enhance their traditional practices, not abandon them. |
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| tracing descent through the male lines |
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| tracing descent through the female lines, such as with Apache people |
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| Started out as a key idea in the Middle Ground and the importance of givng, especially in terms of the father/son relationship between the French and the indians where gift giving is a symbol of agreement and establishes relationship. Now, the idea of reciprocity has expanded to include the relationship between the Northern Athapaskans and animals. |
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| creation story of how the tribe came about |
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| symbolic of many different things in various Indian cultures (usually something mysterious). Often symbolized as the Trickster. |
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| includes the sun, other mythical characters, |
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| Apachean/Southern Athapaskan |
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| subfamily of Athbaskan language group spoken by Apache and Novajo |
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| Speakers of the Southern Athapaskan language group that inhabit the Arizona area |
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| small, wooden houses in the shape of a dome made out of branches and covered by animal hide in the winter |
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| A specific area of land that the ancestors chose for a specific reason (such as, near the water) and then gave a place name. Place is very important to many Indian cultures because they feel one with their environment. |
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| names of land where tribes have lived that have great significance because they are the words of the ancestors, they are graphic impressions of the land, and they reveal evidence of change and shift in climates because one and ascertain what the land used to look like if it changed at all (termed absence of fit). |
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| the Apachean practice of making ends meet by coming in to an English settlement and stealing goods. A successful raid is one where the Apache sneak in undetected, take whatever resources they came for, and then leave undetected without interference and especially without violence/fighting. |
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| the Apachean practice of making ends meet by coming in to an English settlement and stealing goods. A successful raid is one where the Apache sneak in undetected, take whatever resources they came for, and then leave undetected without interference and especially without violence/fighting. |
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| When someone has not been acting right (i.e. chasing after women)someone (a relative or really anyone) hunts them down and tells them a story about what happened long ago. The story will stay with you and stalk you until you remember how to live right. Basso p. 58 |
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| a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States and their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars. |
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| the character of many popular American Indian myths, often depicted as the Creator but he could also be depicted in other ways such as trickster. |
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| a camp that was established on May 16, 1870 as Camp Ord to encourage the White Mountain Indians to live on their reservation, to prevent the Indians from planting corn in unauthorized places, and to serve as a scouting post (http://www.wmat.nsn.us/wmahistory.shtml) |
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| the group oh people inhabiting the area near the Gulf of Maine who attacked Wells in retaliation. The Wabanaki Wars ended with the destruction of Norridgewock,which also ended Abenaki existence |
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| the Jesuit missionary who lived permanently on the reservation from 1694 to 1724 and who became a symbol of the tribe and what the tribe stood for |
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| a Native American writer, preacher and politician of the Pequot tribe. |
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| The US-Canada borders were disputed until 1824, when political noundary was established, diving up Ndakinna |
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| A Boston and English Settlement; a place of continuity; destroyed in 1724 during the Wabanaki wars. |
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| o reservation communities crated from mission towns in Quebec (St. Francois-de-Sales becomes Odanak) |
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| Maine Indian Claims Act 1980 |
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| o Maine Indians Claims Settlement Act of 1980: many people who may be or may not be Penobscot trying to get land claims, money |
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| Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) |
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| is a United States federal law passed on 16 November 1990 requiring federal agencies and institutions that receive federal funding[1] to return Native American cultural items and human remains to their respective peoples. |
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| •Salvage ethnography is a term used by anthropologists beginning in the 1960s used as part of a critique of 19th century ethnography and early modern anthropology |
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| first American anthropologist theory that that interpreted society in terms of its past |
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| "•Cultural pluralism is a term used when smaller groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities, and whose values and practices are accepted by the wider culture." |
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