corners. c. The Indians had little bit of furniture. Their beds were made from buffalo robes‚ skins with the hair left on. They also had back rests. Food‚ clothes‚ and belongings were stored in parfleches. A parfleche was a pouch made of buffalo. d. . They also built wigwams. The wigwams protected the teepee from rotting. The wigwam was used to store food. IV) Religion A) The plain Indians had many religions. There are polytheisms. Animist was important to the Plains Indians life. They believe
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COWBOYS AND INDIANS 1. "Cowboys and Indians" is a short story written by Lorien Crow in 2008. We are in New Mexico; it’s a warm day in February. The narrator is a young girl/woman‚ and she is at her grandmother’s funeral. She is old enough to attend this funeral as an adult‚ and she is expected to be there to shake hands with the last people leaving. But she still feels like a teenager that needs to escape. This longing to escape drives her to call her rebellion cousin‚ David. Together they ride
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features but also some that resembled hominids. They may be the earliest hominids. 2. A 2‚3 millions years old jaw from Ethiopia is the oldest fossil belonging to the line leading to humans. 3. Stone tools found at the same site suggest that tool making may have begun earlier than previously thought. 4. In 1996‚ a bone flute (Neanderthal) was discovered. This means they had that gift of musical expression (43000 to 82000 years old). 5. The finding on cave walls of drawings of animals and
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When you think of a mummy what goes through your mind? The majority of us usually picture an Egyptian mummy wrapped in white clothes and buried deep inside a pyramid. You hear Egypt and think of mummies‚ pyramids‚ and all of the Egypt relics. The first mummies at Egypt were people who were buried in the desert. No one in Egypt had put them in a coffin so they turned into dust! Ever since that had happened they started putting people in coffins. Coffins are usually made out of just wood
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the desert. One of the most exciting events I attended in New Mexico was the museum presentation of the Zuni tribe. Although we actually did not meet the Zuni tribe‚ we learned a lot about them because Dawn Kaufmann who is a guide at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture shown us in details how Zuni tribe is different from other tribes in New Mexico. In terms of their origin‚ Japanese migrated to the North America and those decedents had strong connection with Zuni and influenced Zuni culture. I
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Ancient Greece The Greeks become one people Greek myths Pandora’s Box In ancient Greece they had myths about gods in one of them Zeus asked Hephaestus to make him a daughter. They made her out of clay. Hephaestus made a beautiful woman named Pandora. Zeus sent Pandora to earth so she could marry Epimetheus. Zeus wanted Pandora to marry Epimetheus so he could get even. One of the brothers‚ Prometheus gave people fire without asking Zeus for permission. Zeus sent Pandora to earth with a box. The
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Taíno Indians‚ a subgroup of the Arawakan Indians (a group of American Indians in northeastern South America)‚ The Arawakan achievements included construction of ceremonial ball parks whose boundaries were marked by upright stone dolmens‚ development of a universal language‚ and creation of a complicated religious cosmology. The Arawak/Taino society was basically a very gentle culture. It was characterized by happiness‚ friendliness and a highly organized hierarchical‚ paternal society‚ and
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¡§An Ancient Gesture¡¨ by Edna St. Vincent Millay and ¡§The Sirens¡¨ by Donald Finkel. The poets use the legend of Ulysses as the background of the poems. The rhyming schemes are very obvious in the poems and they create fluent to the reader. The poets use allusions and style differently but they use the style to reveal the theme. Although ¡§An Ancient Gesture¡¨ and ¡§The Sirens¡¨ allude to the story of Ulysses‚ Edna St. Vincent Millay and Donald Finkel use allusion differently. ¡§An Ancient Gesture¡¨
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Romulus and Remus Romulus is given the credit for founding Ancient Rome – so legend has it. Children in Roman schools were taught the story and it became almost set in stone. What is legend of Romulus and Remus? Romulus and Remus were twin brothers. They were abandoned by their parents as babies and put into a basket that was then placed into the River Tiber. The basket ran aground and the twins were discovered by a female wolf. The wolf nursed the babies for a short time before they were found
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Contributions from Ancient India Ancient India contributed many things in our modern culture. The Ancient Indians showed their intelligence in the many ideas that they had. We need to credit them for their advancements in many things. The concept of zero and the numeral system we use in our culture are examples of the Ancient Indian advancements in mathematics. They also deepened the knowledge and accuracy of astronomy. In addition the cotton developments sparked the Indian textile world. One
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