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Archaeology Final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Vision Quest Sites | Big Horn Medicine Wheel, Wyoming - astronomical alignments - pilgrimages to here - left offerings for spirits |
| Blackfoot/Pikaani Ancestors | - different ontological relationships with spirit world and the land - kill sites were part of an alliance with spiritual beings - spirits and ancestors resides in mountain peaks - hunting was a spiritual engagement and an economic pursuit |
| Sacred Bundles | - portable shrines that contained history and identity - treated like living beings - handled only by a bundle keeper |
| Early Plains Villages | -southern plains - Mixed farming and hunting - cultivation of maize, squash, and wild grasses |
| Coalescence of the Plains | - more agriculture meant more people - walls were built for protection |
| Proto-historic plains villagers | - EU pandemics and EU horses led to more intertribal warfare |
| Late Woodland Sites | - large, sedentary, domestic settlements - corresponds with intensification of maize horticulture |
| Village Expansion | - maize production increased - villages found on higher, defensible ground - increased population |
| Iroquois Confederacy | - large villages of hundreds of people - longhouses, defensible positions, allies |
| Food Sovereignty | the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. |
| Food security | having, at all times, both physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet dietary needs for a productive and healthy life |
| Food Insecurity | a lack of consistent access to enough food for every person in a household to live an active, healthy life |
| Food desert | geographical areas where residents cannot access affordable, healthy food |
| Interior Plateau | - large villages formed around salmon harvesting |
| Salmon | - seen as a gift from the creator - feeds the wildlife and forests with their bodies |
| The Dalles (Celilo Falls) | - the hub of all salmon hunting in the 19th century - led to formation of a multi-ethnic community |
| Potlatch | - large cultural gatherings - used as a gift giving ceremony to display wealth and status |
| Fishing Weirs | - made of stone or wood, large formations built in the water to trap salmon |
| Ascribed Status | status assignment at birth, not earned |
| Ishi - the last Yahi | - was used as a human artifact and treated very poorly. - body was not properly disposed of and his brain got lost in the Smithsonian warehouse for 8 decades before repatriation |
| Kennewick man | - Found along bank of Columbia river in Kennewick, Washington - Columbia River Basin Tribes claimed him but were not given his body until 2017 |
| Dakota Access Pipeline | - Runs very close to a reservation - a pipeline spillage would threaten sacred burial sites as well as the water quality - Protests at standing rock |
| Citizenship Act of 1924 | - This was the first time that Native Americans were granted citizenship |
| Crow Creek Massacre | - Increased violence due to droughts - Village people were massacred because of unfinished palisades |
| What were bison used for? | - meat - Long bones (bone marrow) - jewelry and clothing |
| Difference between Haida and Beothuk KEEP EDITING | - Haida are still here while Beothuk are culturally extinct |
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