Transcript Welcome to Native American Studies – SOCI 1100 4A

Welcome to Native American
Studies – SOCI 1100 4A
Fall, 2011
Room 239
Fort Omaha Bldg. #10
Agenda Day #10
• Brief work time
• Presentation of poster information
• Genocide – continue film “The Last of
His Tribe”
• Handout week 5 – 6 assignment
8 minutes
5 minutes
1 minute
Present Posters Now
Parfleche Containers
• The Plains Indian tribes did not generally do
much in the way of basketry arts. Instead,
they made containers called parfleche out of
rawhide (hard, untanned leather) and painted
them with traditional pigments. They were
usually in the form of boxes, handbags, or
cylindrical quivers. Some Plains artists still
carry this tradition on today.
Wild Turnip
• Timpsila is a Lakota Traditional food. It is a
wild turnip that is only harvested in a week
long window of the summer. After it is dug up,
the husk is shelled and is often woven into
long braids. The Timpsila is dried and can be
used all year. It is traditionally cooked in PaPa
(dried meat) soup.
Wild Turnip
• Called Timpsula by the Lakota Sioux, the
Prairie Turnip (Pediomelum esculenta) is also
known as Indian breadroot.
• Prairie Turnip was probably the most
important wild food gathered by Native
Americans who lived on the prairies. In 1805
the Lewis and Clark expedition observed
plains Indians collecting, peeling, and frying
prairie turnips.
• The Lakota women told their children, who
helped gather wild foods, that prairie turnips
point to each other. When the children noted
which way the branches were pointing, they
were sent in that direction to find the next
plant.
• This saved the mothers from searching for
plants, kept the children happily busy, and
made a game of their work.
• Women were the gatherers of prairie turnips
and their work was considered of great
importance to the tribe.
• Harvest wild turnip according to seasonal
availability. In the early spring and early
autumn, the flower buds have a texture
similar to broccoli.
• Harvest the leaves, or "greens" of the wild
turnip before they reach full maturity--mature
leaves have a strong, bitter flavor. The roots of
wild turnip become very hard and fibrous late
in the winter, but roots harvested in autumn
are usually tender enough to eat.
Genocide
• Genocide is defined as "the deliberate and
systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of
an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group“
• Continue film: The Last of His Tribe
• Ishi (ca. 1860 – March 25,
1916) was the last member
of the Yahi, the last surviving
group of the Yana people of
the U.S. state of California.
Ishi is believed to have been
the last Native American in
Northern California to have
lived most of his life
completely outside the
European American culture.
1911 at age 54
• Ishi means "man" in the
Yana language. The
anthropologist Alfred
Kroeber gave this name to
the man when he
discovered Ishi had never
been named. When asked
his name, he said: "I have
none, because there were
no people to name me,"
meaning that no tribal
naming ceremony had been
performed.
Alfred L. Kroeber with Ishi
• Ishi is estimated to have been born about
1860–1862. In 1865, when he was a young
boy, Ishi and his family were attacked in the
Three Knolls Massacre, in which 40 of their
tribesmen were killed.[2] Approximately 30
Yahi survived to escape, but shortly after
cattlemen killed about half of the survivors.
The last survivors, including Ishi and his family,
went into hiding for the next 40 years, and
their tribe was popularly believed to be
extinct.[3]
• In the fall of 1908, a group of surveyors came
across the camp inhabited by an elderly native
woman, a man, and young girl - Ishi's elderly
mother, Ishi, and his sister. The latter two fled and
the former hid herself in blankets to avoid
detection, because she was sick and could not
run. The surveyors ransacked the camp and took
everything. Ishi's mother and other relatives died
soon after Ishi's return. Ishi lived three years
beyond the raid alone, the last of his tribe. Finally,
starving and with nowhere to go, at the age of
about 49 in 1911, Ishi walked out into the white
man's world.[3]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi
1911
1914
Assignments
• Week #2 Assignments due Tuesday, October 4
• Week #4 Assignments due Tuesday, October 11
• Weeks #5 – 6 Assignments to be handed out on
Thursday, October 6; due October 18