Short Essay On Native American Culture
The winter wind blows cold across my fur pelt yet I am warm surrounded by those I know and our nomadic settlement fire. Our small, traveling clan has settled in southwestern Ohio for the winter. We are happy for now though we experience many dangers as the days grow colder. We have prepared for the changing season, ensuring that our food stores were full and our shelters would stand against the harsh weather to come.
We have learned from the stories of winters before us. The clan elders speak of our peoples travels many seasons ago and the great beasts they hunted across the Beringia.
Following herds of mastodons, mammoths, camels and bison, they crossed the Beringia land bridge from Siberia to Alaska (Lepper). The glacial sheets that make …show more content…
Regardless of their skill, the men’s lives are at risk much of the day, whether from predators or other hunters, but they persist in the hunt because they must. We all support each other the hunters rely on us to fill their bellies for the hunt and we rely on them to fill our bellies for the winter.
This system of hunting and gathering during the warm season, stockpiling for the cold season and the few chances for trade with other nomads allow us to subsist here in Ohio.
Though our clan is small, we have the company of many other families. We welcome new families into our clan and see other families off when it is their time to go (Lepper). We create bonds, and sometimes new families, with others living the nomad’s life. As a whole, we as a people have been surviving this way for thousands of years.
When the food is abundant, we flourish. The opposite is true for the lean times, and there are lean times often. When times are rough, though, we have each other for companionship, letting the elders tell stories of the old times and listening to the hunters in our clan talk of great beasts across the land. But there's always tomorrow; once this part of the land is cleared of
We have learned from the stories of winters before us. The clan elders speak of our peoples travels many seasons ago and the great beasts they hunted across the Beringia.
Following herds of mastodons, mammoths, camels and bison, they crossed the Beringia land bridge from Siberia to Alaska (Lepper). The glacial sheets that make …show more content…
Regardless of their skill, the men’s lives are at risk much of the day, whether from predators or other hunters, but they persist in the hunt because they must. We all support each other the hunters rely on us to fill their bellies for the hunt and we rely on them to fill our bellies for the winter.
This system of hunting and gathering during the warm season, stockpiling for the cold season and the few chances for trade with other nomads allow us to subsist here in Ohio.
Though our clan is small, we have the company of many other families. We welcome new families into our clan and see other families off when it is their time to go (Lepper). We create bonds, and sometimes new families, with others living the nomad’s life. As a whole, we as a people have been surviving this way for thousands of years.
When the food is abundant, we flourish. The opposite is true for the lean times, and there are lean times often. When times are rough, though, we have each other for companionship, letting the elders tell stories of the old times and listening to the hunters in our clan talk of great beasts across the land. But there's always tomorrow; once this part of the land is cleared of