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Fascinating. The Indian lore holds a certain romance in my mind. Great post, but...I saw it earlier today, and didn't have time to comment. That ending was very good too! ???
posted by
adnohr
on April 30, 2011 at 10:39 PM
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Pat
It's all very interesting to me, especially since my knowledge of North American native cultures is embarrassingly sketchy..
posted by
Nautikos
on April 30, 2011 at 6:24 PM
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I'm interested in Native American culture & traditions. There are mainly Pomo's in the area I live.
posted by
GypsyButterfly
on April 30, 2011 at 6:06 PM
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different to the Australian first nation people where the Elders were male
and who controlled the tribe.
posted by
Kabu
on April 30, 2011 at 2:07 PM
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PatB
So it isn't so strange that a male dominated society conquered a female dominated society and then just kept moving on to dominate the rest of the world. We didn't learn and live enough of that "First Nations People" to really enlighten us.
posted by
WileyJohn
on April 30, 2011 at 1:58 PM
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History and culture of native Americans is always very fascinating to me. My dad was 1/8
th Menominee, with his grandfather having come down from northern Wisconsin to Missouri. Later his mother's family all moved on by covered wagon to Oklahoma where my dad grew up with Choctaw Indian companions. Because he knew them and their tales and customs personally, he spent his whole life sharing with us The Five Civilized Tribes, and especially the Choctaw part.
posted by
TAPS.
on April 30, 2011 at 11:48 AM
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We get the idea somewhere--I'm sure tv is involved--that American Indians
were and are a single mass of traditions and memes, all dressed in fringed buckskin and wearing feathers in their hair, with style variations and different languages, but essentially alike: that they were and are not in fact, a group of individual nations not even as like each other as Europe's nations which shared much in common from once having been largely one Roman Empire, and from sharing for 1500 years a single common catholic Church.
It never occured to me before reading this that the Dream Quest was not an American Indian thing, but something particular to certain nations only.
posted by
Ciel
on April 30, 2011 at 10:57 AM
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