native americans
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Lt Col Sergio A. PorresChief, Office of Defense Cooperation
The American Indians Then, and
Today
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Background
• Who Are they?•Where did They Come From?• Southeast Asia/Southern Pacific
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Background
• Name?– Red Skins– American Indians– Native Americans
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Were they All The Same?
• Commonalities:– History = Story telling– Land Gatherers = Nomads– Crops = Villages– Hunters: Bison, Elk, etc• Meat for Food• Furs and Skin Clothing/Shelter• Stomach for liquids• Bones for weapons
One with Mother Nature
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• Commonalities:– Spiritual:• Many Gods• Special Relationship with
Nature• Sun = Supreme God• Power of Dreams• Shaman
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• Commonalities: – Roles of Men and Women
• Men: Traditional• Women: Important Skills, givers
of life• Medicine Women• Matrilineal
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Cherokee
• Largest• Ani Chota not Cherokee• Hunters ------Farming• Complex Chiefdom• Least Resistance to White Man
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European Encounter• Disease• Expansion• Cultural Differences• Religion• Civilizing
– Manifest Destiny– 1830--Indian Removal Act
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Nations Within Nations• Multi membership (tribes, nations, bands)
• Treaty rights• 562 Tribal Governments• National congress of American Indians 1944
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Famous Native Americans