2-3.13.17 Flashcards
Biculturation
Combining two cultures together
Acculturation
The process of cultural change and way of thinking psychologically
Assimilation
When a person acquires the social characteristics like lifestyles
Berdache “Two Spirited”
Revival of American Indian cultures
Man dancing as woman is ok
Reintroduction of the horse
The wild free roaming horse and burro act of 1971 where the living symbols of their culture riding free
Travois
Trailer used on horses
Counting coup
Prestigious honor. Touching an enemy warrior with hand coming out unharmed.
Sky or scaffold burials
Human corpse placed high above where the elements of the world decompose the body
Canoe burials
Place body in canoe raised on post in the sky. Fishing tribes usually practice this.
Encomienda
Indians had to work as a tax for the Spanish
Shoshone round dance and petroglyphs
Ceremony when food was plentiful.
The bad lands
Gold lands protected by the Sioux
BIA
Was created to solve problem of Indians
Revitalization
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Pipes, smoking, sacred bundles
Peace no one can lie very prestige honor
Peyote Religion and Vision quest and animism
Spiritual religion known as peyotism. Would smoke or use the cactus to connect with the spirit world. Rituals and Medicine techniques. Everything has a spirit.