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  • https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Native_Peoples_of_North_America_(Stebbins)/06%3A_Is_There_a_Word_for_Art/6.01%3A_The_Legend_of_the_Flute_(Brule_Sioux)
    In the middle of the fourth night, wagnuka, the bird with the bright-red top, appeared, saying, “Watch me,” turning himself into a man, showing the hunter how to make the branch sing, saying again and...In the middle of the fourth night, wagnuka, the bird with the bright-red top, appeared, saying, “Watch me,” turning himself into a man, showing the hunter how to make the branch sing, saying again and again: “Watch this, now.” And in his dream the young man watched and observed very carefully.
  • https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Native_Peoples_of_North_America_(Stebbins)/03%3A_Resources_and_Their_Distribution/3.03%3A_Suggested_Resources
    For more information about the role of women in pre-historic economies, see Woman the Gatherer, edited by Frances Dahlberg, which includes the article “Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology,” ...For more information about the role of women in pre-historic economies, see Woman the Gatherer, edited by Frances Dahlberg, which includes the article “Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology,” by Sally Slocum. In addition to the previously mentioned Life in a Pueblo by Kathy Kamp, I also recommend Those Who Came Before: Southwestern Archaeology in the National Park System, by Robert Lister and Florence Lister, and its companion video of the same title.
  • https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/ANTHRO_130%3A_Intro_to_Cultural_Anthropology_(Bazua)/11%3A_Kinship/11.02%3A_All_Our_Relations/11.2.03%3A_Suggested_Resources
    While not specially about Native American societies, anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday has two books that are very important in examining kinship and the roles of women in society. In Women at the Ce...While not specially about Native American societies, anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday has two books that are very important in examining kinship and the roles of women in society. In Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy, Sanday argues that the Minangkabau of West Sumatra are an example of a matriarchy. League of the Houdenosaunee or the Iroquois, is an ethnohistorical account of the Houdenosaunee by Lewis Henry Morgan, originally published in 1851.
  • https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/ANTHRO_130%3A_Intro_to_Cultural_Anthropology_(Bazua)/11%3A_Kinship/11.02%3A_All_Our_Relations/11.2.02%3A_Suggested_Questions
    You may have done your family tree in elementary school. You might also want to compare your chart to others in your class. Many societies have “fictive kin”, that is someone who in not related to you...You may have done your family tree in elementary school. You might also want to compare your chart to others in your class. Many societies have “fictive kin”, that is someone who in not related to you by descent or marriage but whom you consider to be “family”. Do you have any examples of this? or Canadian societies different than the way adoption functioned in indigenous American societies? How do you think the concept of kinship in your society may change in the next fifty years?
  • https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Native_Peoples_of_North_America_(Stebbins)/04%3A_Status_Rank_and_Power
  • https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Native_Peoples_of_North_America_(Stebbins)/01%3A_In_1491
  • https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Native_Peoples_of_North_America_(Stebbins)/05%3A_Religion_and_Spiritual_Beliefs/5.02%3A_Religion_and_Spiritual_Beliefs
    The ceremonial grounds where the ritual will take place are prepared and blessed by the elder women, then a post made from a cottonwood tree is placed in the middle of the grounds by the elder men You...The ceremonial grounds where the ritual will take place are prepared and blessed by the elder women, then a post made from a cottonwood tree is placed in the middle of the grounds by the elder men Young men volunteer to re-enact the suffering and torture of Spring Boy, the first to person to do the Naxpike.
  • https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Native_Peoples_of_North_America_(Stebbins)/03%3A_Resources_and_Their_Distribution/3.01%3A_Resources_and_Their_Distribution
    They won the first round of legal battles in the Canadian Superior Court, only to have the ruling overturned by the Quebec Court of Appeals, not on the legal issues of the case, but because the Court ...They won the first round of legal battles in the Canadian Superior Court, only to have the ruling overturned by the Quebec Court of Appeals, not on the legal issues of the case, but because the Court cited the “interests of the larger society.” In the early 1980s the ITC proposed dividing the Northwest Territories into two regions: one to be under the control of the Inuit (and to be known as Nunavut) and the other to remain under the control of the provincial and federal governments.
  • https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Native_Peoples_of_North_America_(Stebbins)/01%3A_In_1491/1.01%3A_In_1491_how_many_people_were_living_in_the_Americas_how_did_they_get_here_how_long_had_they_been_here_and_what_had_they_accomplished
    The contact continued to peoples living along the eastern seaboard, to the southwestern part of the United States, then the western coast of North America, and finally the peoples of the interior part...The contact continued to peoples living along the eastern seaboard, to the southwestern part of the United States, then the western coast of North America, and finally the peoples of the interior part of North America—the last to be encountered by Europeans.
  • https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/ANTHRO_130%3A_Intro_to_Cultural_Anthropology_(Bazua)/09%3A_1491_A_Historical_Acknowledgement/9.01%3A_In_1491_how_many_people_were_living_in_the_Americas_how_did_they_get_here_how_long_had_they_been_here_and_what_had_they_accomplished
    The contact continued to peoples living along the eastern seaboard, to the southwestern part of the United States, then the western coast of North America, and finally the peoples of the interior part...The contact continued to peoples living along the eastern seaboard, to the southwestern part of the United States, then the western coast of North America, and finally the peoples of the interior part of North America—the last to be encountered by Europeans.
  • https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Native_Peoples_of_North_America_(Stebbins)/03%3A_Resources_and_Their_Distribution/3.02%3A_Suggested_Questions
    What would happen if the stores in which we get our resources were to all close, how would you get needed resources? What might we experience in the future because of climate change? He was impressed ...What would happen if the stores in which we get our resources were to all close, how would you get needed resources? What might we experience in the future because of climate change? He was impressed by Britain’s military power, but shocked by the sight of people begging and living on the streets. How might factors like climate change and the need for new sources of energy effect the way humans get their resources in the future?

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