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General Introduction
Terminology
Indian
Native American
Indigenous
First Nations
Tribal Names
"Sioux"
"Chippewa"
Subjects
Architecture
Residential
Ceremonial
Artifacts
Things produced & "art"
Anthropological Approach
Study of Culture
Ethnography
Ethnology
Ethnohistory
Aspects of Culture
History of European invasion and conquest.
Reconstruction of pre-contact ways of life.
External political affairs.
Warfare and alliances.
Trade relations.
Economics and subsistence systems
Natural environment
Major types:
Hunting and foraging
Horticulture
Agriculture
Pastoralism
Industrial market economy
Social and Political Organization
Types of political organization:
Bands
Tribes
Chiefdoms
Nations/states
Kinship systems
Lineages (matrilineal, patrilineal)
Nuclear family basis
Ceremonial and Religious
Belief systems and cosmology highly variable.
Some shared themes:
No sharp separation between spirit and human worlds.
Shamanism
Religious organizations and priesthood
Transformation
Language
Patterns of language families
Migration studies
Cultural practices and language family
Regional Approach
East & Southeast
Natchez
Cherokee
Iroquois
Plains & West
Crow
Cahuilla
Yurok
Southwest
Hopi
Navajo
North
Netsilik (Eskimo)
Chipewyan
Northwest
Tlingit
