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Art Here ,Art There,Art Everywhere!
Art Here ,Art There,Art Everywhere!

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Art,Where did it all begin? Now today many people have no  Knowledge about Native American art.Let’s go way back even before my time for the people that knew the true meaning of Art,Many tribes of Natives created different types of art that was part of their culture.That mostly represented Natives was their weapons,feathers,mask,most of all is paint.Natives Culture is very curious ,spontaneous,out of the box that no one really has no idea about people have stolen or mocked the Natives even during the 16 to 1700’s.People think they were made up by Americans or Europeans, Art is everywhere but not like Natives.Natives had a different type of perspective of how art should be like people has seen french,german or just different types of Art but you will find similarities .Stereotypes comes out when discussing Native American arts and cultures, and sadly many people remain unaware of the complicated and fascinating histories of Native peoples and their art. Too many people still imagine a warrior or chief on horseback wearing a feathered headdress, or a beautiful young “princess” in an animal hide dress Popular culture and movies perpetuate these images, and homogenize the incredible diversity of Native groups across North America. There are too many different languages, cultural traditions, cosmologies, and ritual practices to adequately make broad statements about the cultures and arts of the indigenous peoples of what is now the United States and Canada.                                                                                   Natives have deep meanings to their Art even about their culture that people don’t seem to realize that it is more about the understanding,Teenagers for example have seen Movies, Tv series about Natives how close they were to wolves and how scared their tribe was.One of the Movies I’m talking about Is Twilight how Jacob Gave Bella a Dream catcher,You put it on top of you’re bed and when you sleep the dream catcher will catch the bad dreams you have.Most Natives were about respect each tribe had their own meaning just out respect for eachother but it was always to worship the gods it was  very close to their beliefs,Everything they used from earth was intimate with a piece of universe with them.When Europeans came to the other side of the world they seen animal fur,tents.paint on their faces,sticks as weapons,Natives love the wild with animals.Walruses,whale’s teeth,eagles,bears were made out of rock and pendants,Statues of their tribe.A women of 2018 Was giving art foundation to her people her quote was  was taught that our arts carry the spirit of the people. It is through art that we know ourselves. It’s through art that we will go forward into the world and it is through art that our cultures will be remembered.

—Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) Poet and Musician, Oklahoma

Natives haven’t been heard but they have been seen it is time that people stop ignoring Natives and welcome them to open arms they have created many things that we use now today people use for markets to get money,but people need to know there family history about the culture of how they lived in the new world people have been calling home for centuries.Native Americans blessings As old Natives will say “May you have the strength of eagles wings,the faith and courage to fly to new heights and wisdom of the universe to carry you there”. But forever the History of Natives will say “The holy land is everywhere” “whenever forests have not been  mowed down wherever the animals is released in their quiet protections,wherever the earth is not bereft of four footed life”.

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Music! Dancing! Festivals! Entertainment in Native American Culture

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Music! Dancing! Festivals! Entertainment in Native American Culture

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The festival last week was amazing. We Native Americans may not have the newest technology, but we sure do know how to have a good time. At the festival we had great music and everyone danced for hours. The music at the festival is very distinguishable from other white people music, we use some instruments but our vocals are the main part of any song, there is also no harmony ever incorporated. We usually sing about our ancestors, land, spirits, and nature. Music in our culture is very important, it is used in many aspects of our lives.

And with music, there will always be dancing. At the festivals most dances we do are group based, and your role in the dance is based on your role in society. The way we normally dance is by impersonating spirits and making odd noises. The reason we dance like this is to honor our ancestors and sometimes even pray. A wise lady named Marijo Moore once said, “To dance is to pray, to pray is to heal, to heal is to give, to give is to live, to live is to dance.”

Early 1700’s in North America is a pretty bad place to be a Native American. The white people are always taking our land, enslaving, even killing us, but we have a quote that keeps us going,”To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” And these festivals definitely make it easier to do so.

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Lacrosse, people when they usually hear this word or sport is Americans or Europeans, but it what should pop in your head is Native Americans because they were actually the first to play this sport, Lacrosse or what they call Stickball of the “Creator’s Game”. French Jesuit missionaries working in the St. Lawrence Valley in the 1630s were the first Europeans to see lacrosse being played by Native Americans. Lacrosse is a very serious sport for the Natives. In the Culture of Iroquois, when a man dies his lacrosse stick is buried with him. They believed that the first thing he would do in the afterlife is to take the stick from his coffin and begin playing that day.

Native American Lacrosse was often played on a stretch of land up to two miles long with sticks between three to five feet long made of wood and animal skin. A game could include between one hundred or one thousand players. Some game could even include whole tribes. Their equipment was the use of a netted racquet with which to pick the ball off the ground, throw, catch and convey it into or past a goal to score a point. The cardinal rule in all varieties of Lacrosse was that the ball, with few exceptions must not be touched with the hands. Lacrosse was started by the Native American Indians, but was originally known as stickball. The game was initially played in the St. Lawrence Valley area by the Algonquian Tribe and they were followed by other tribes in the eastern half of Northern America, and the western Great Lakes.

There is actually a quote from one of the Native American Tribe players saying “The feeling, the thrill, the moment I caught that ball with my racquet. Being ahead of hundreds of people, I’ve never felt anything like it. It’s like I was the center of attention for one second and that’s something i haven’t felt in a long time.” Native Americans used this sport as not just entertainment but also as a job and physical activity so that they would stay in shape. We have also interviewed a Native American talking about the length of the game..”These games could take the breath out of a bear, games could last days or weeks or months even.” As you can tell these game are not for the faint of heart, a serious game with players who would not stop could even last a entire season. These games could go from tribes playing for resources, 100 to 1000 men playing in a plain field and goals could range from five hundred yards to six miles. Rules were decided the day before the game, there was no out of bounds other than that the ball must not be touched with the hands. At first they would select large rocks or trees as the goals, but later on they would use wooden posts.