I just realized I don't know shit about Native Americans. Anybody here have any knowledge on the subject? Even just random stuff you know or have heard about your local tribes would be cool. Art, culture, politics, history, military, agriculture, religion, sport. Anything, really. Any books or websites you can point me to get started. I honestly don't know shit and I feel like I should know more.
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Ethan Barnes
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Luis Watson
My great grandfather was Miami Indian. Apparently they sided with the British and fought against the colonies.
Grayson Williams
well narrows it down, you are very broad. where do you wanna start
injun here btw
Mohawk
Jaxon Russell
Custer died for your sins
Nicholas Collins
Precolumbian USA
Nathaniel Ward
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Jack Ortiz
I know for the Iroquois, we were a regional power. Our numbers and organization gave us an advantage to preserving our homelands in the southern great lakes region.
Our government system comprised of 50 chiefs from across the confederacy who were chosen by clan mothers. The chiefs were headed by the tadodaho who acted as a sort of grand chief who's purpose was to preserve the Great Law of Peace.
Daniel Cruz
What am looking at???
Juan Clark
I'm from NY. Our local natives and others along the east coast were warrior types. An interesting thing about them was that the men in the village were sort of free agents. An important man could organize a hunting party, and it'd be a good idea to join him, but guys could also go out hunting on their own.
By "hunting" I mean looking for enemies to scalp. If they heard members of some tribe they didn't like were in the area, they'd go out and kill the mf's, or capture them.
One of two things would happen if they captured a member of another tribe.
If tribe b had previously killed or kidnapped a member of tribe a in battle, then tribe a may take the captured member of b as a "replacement" for their lost friend. Generally it'd be gender specific, too, they'd take women to replace women, men to replace men.
For this reason, NY Indians didn't rape in war. Since they literally believed the captured woman would replace their lost sister, it'd be incest to rape this other tribeswoman.
Alternatively, the captured person may ritually tortured and executed. The ceremonies could be pretty rad. If a captured a member of b, then what'd happen is they'd tied up the b guy, and do stuff like burn him peel his skin with clam shells or cut him a little. The goal was to get him to submit and say "your tribe is better than mine!". Because his tribe's honor was at stake, the captured man would try to laugh off the torture and not admit that his enemies were doing anything that'd make a member of his tribe submit to them.
Brody Baker
according to the mormons, they were the original israelites