1. Welcome to Native American Studies – SOCI 1100 4A
Fall, 2011
Room 239
Fort Omaha Bldg. #10

2. Agenda Day #3 Introduction to NA Studies Culture
Chaco Legacy
Graphic histories
The Lakota Way – beginning the reading, if time

3. N.A. Studies Multidisciplinary Indigenous peoples Cultures Histories
Successes
Experiences
Indigenous peoples
Native peoples of US (inc. Alaska and Hawaii)
Canada
Latin America

4. N.A. Studies – roots in social science and humanities
Sociology/Anthropology
History
Literature
Archaeology
Oral histories supplied by tribal elders
See Reading #2 - your assignment

5. Sociological Approach: Studying a Culture
All the human made products associated with a society
Two types of culture:
material
non-material
Culture provides people a shared framework to guide them as they solve problems
Another way to look at culture is to see it as products --the “things” used by the society
There are two basic categories or types of culture - the things (material culture) and the intangibles such as knowledge, values, ideas, beliefs, etc. (non-material culture)

6. Components of Culture Normative Culture Material Culture
There are three main components of culture. The material and the two aspects of the non-material culture: the cognitive and the normative. The circles are drawn as over-lapping because the components are so connected to one another. For every thing (ie, toaster) you have to have some cognitive information or knowledge (how to plug it in; where to insert the bread; how to push it down and set the control to achieve the appropriate shade) and some norms or rules (don’t immerse it in water; don’t stick a fork or other metal tool into). Further, if you’re mad at your brother, you should not bonk him on the head with the toaster.
Cognitive Culture
Non Material Culture

7. Material Culture All of the things created or used by the culture
May be inventions
May be borrowed (Process of diffusion)
Technology is part of the material culture
Things may become part of a culture in several ways.
-They may be new combinations of existing materials and processes
-Things may be adopted from other cultures through a process called diffusion

8. Non-Material Culture Knowledge Beliefs Values Rules
Symbolic information
Language
The non-material culture is made of intangible ideas that are essential for development, progress and continuation within the culture. There are two components: cognitive and normative.

9. Cognitive Culture All of the culture’s knowledge Ideas Beliefs
Procedures
Creativity
Information Processing Procedures
Symbolism and Language
The knowledge/information component of culture is the cognitive culture.

10. Normative Culture Definition: Norm
Standard of desired behavior; Norms are rules people are expected to follow
The rules of the culture are a part of the normative culture.

11. Types of Norms Folkways Mores customs habits
minor with few, if any sanctions for violation
Mores
vital
morally significant (sin)
violations result in severe sanctions
There are three basic types of norms, folkways and mores.
Folkways are everyday customs. In some context we might call them manners. Violations tend to be ignored, although repeated violations may result in the label “eccentric,” “weirdo” or “geek.”
Mores are more socially significant rules. Violations might be considered “sinful.” Obedience to mores is seen as vital to the well-being of the society. Failure to obey could result in a severe punishment--depending on the degree of violation.
Those rules, usually mores, that are taken very seriously are legislated into laws with designated enforcement personnel and specified sanctions. We will explore norms and sanctions (rewards/punishments) more thoroughly in Chapter 6.

12. Anthropological Ethnographic Approach
Chaco Legacy
Anthropological Ethnographic Approach

13. Chaco Legacy
Begin film – What can the material culture tell us about the cognitive and normative cultures when we do not have written information about those components?

14. Components of Culture Normative Culture Material Culture
There are three main components of culture. The material and the two aspects of the non-material culture: the cognitive and the normative. The circles are drawn as over-lapping because the components are so connected to one another. For every thing (ie, toaster) you have to have some cognitive information or knowledge (how to plug it in; where to insert the bread; how to push it down and set the control to achieve the appropriate shade) and some norms or rules (don’t immerse it in water; don’t stick a fork or other metal tool into). Further, if you’re mad at your brother, you should not bonk him on the head with the toaster.
Cognitive Culture
Non Material Culture

15. Cognitive Culture: Symbolic Depiction
Graphic histories –
Prehistoric people, starting tens of thousands of years ago, left a record of their presence on the stone walls of caves and canyons, and on boulders around springs and water holes. In many cases the rock art and stone tools they left behind is all that remains of their culture.

16. Sky-watchers of Chaco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKrMj9r7nJ4 1

17. A center of Anazazi culture
Pueblo Bonito

18. Pueblo Bonito 800 rooms 2000 - 5000 people
one of several large townsites in the Canyon
surplus of subsistence goods
trading and ceremonial center

19. How soon it would be summer or winter, etc. ?
How would you know….
How old you are?
What time it is?
How soon it would be summer or winter, etc. ?
When it would be safe to plant squash seeds? 6

20. Components of Culture Normative Culture Material Culture
There are three main components of culture. The material and the two aspects of the non-material culture: the cognitive and the normative. The circles are drawn as over-lapping because the components are so connected to one another. For every thing (ie, toaster) you have to have some cognitive information or knowledge (how to plug it in; where to insert the bread; how to push it down and set the control to achieve the appropriate shade) and some norms or rules (don’t immerse it in water; don’t stick a fork or other metal tool into). Further, if you’re mad at your brother, you should not bonk him on the head with the toaster.
Cognitive Culture
Non Material Culture

21. You look across the Canyon to Fajada Butte

22. Fajada Butte http://www.colorado.edu/Conferences/chaco/tour/fajada.htm4

23. Midday Summer Solstice 5

24. THE SOLAR "CLOCK" Did the stone slabs fall there, or were they placed?
Why mid-day rather than sunrise?
Was the spiral carved first or last?
Can it really plot the cycle of the moon? 6

25. Solstice Window Pueblo Bonito
Wijiji: 7

26. Other aspects of life in the canyon
the arts
agriculture
religion
astronomy

27. Potters practiced their craft ….

28. Masons perfected the art of building

29. Jackson Stairway

30. Farmers cultivated and irrigated fields

31. Spiritual life flourished

32. Astronomers identified new sites
Sighting the
Crab Nebula 8

33. Graphic History
Prehistoric people, starting tens of thousands of years ago, left a record of their presence on the stone walls of caves and canyons, and on boulders around springs and water holes. In many cases the rock art and stone tools they left behind is all that remains of their culture.
Some probably had deep cultural and religious significance
Many thought to represent some kind of not-yet-fully understood symbolic or ritual language.

34. Petroglyphs
The outer patina covered surface of the parent stone is removed to expose the usually lighter colored stone underneath. Some stone is better suited to petroglyph making than others. Stone that is very hard or contains a lot of quartz does not work well for petroglyph making; however, a nice desert varnished basalt usually works very well.  

35. Newspaper Rock, near Monticello, Utah

36. Newspaper Rock is a petroglyph panel etched in sandstone that records perhaps 2,000 years of human activity in the area. Etched into the desert varnish are symbols' representing the Fremont, Anasazi, Navajo and Anglo cultures. The exact nature of these symbols meaning is still not clearly understood. But they are typical of many sites throughout the U.S. in their use of universal symbols, be it graffiti or a true "newspaper," recording events of the times and earlier.

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39. Hawaiian Petroglyphs
This human-like figure is wearing what appears to be a headdress. It may represent a ceremonial figure or a person of authority. The original petroglyph is carved into the rock near Kaupuleho, Hawaii

40. These two paddlemen or paddle dancers are carved in the ro ck near Paniau, Hawaii.
This petroglyph dog found Puako, Hawaii, was probably made in the 1800s

41. As did other cultures, the ancient Hawaiians left us enigmatic images that we ponder the meaning of today. This symbolic petroglyph is carved near Puuloa, Hawaii. 

42. Pictographs
Pictographs are painted onto stone and are much more fragile than petroglyphs. The paint is a mineral or vegetal substance combined with some sort of binder like fat residue or blood. If the paint was not properly mixed with a binder it would not adhere well to the stone and the pictograph would quickly flake away. Pictographs were painted in locations where they would be protected from the elements: in caves, alcoves, under ledges and overhangs.

43. PICTOGRAPHS ON WALL OF HORSESHOE CANYON, believed to have been made by Fremont people about 1,000 years ago. Photograph by Walter Meayers Edwards, © 1971 National Geographic Society.

44. Fremont Culture
The Fremont people, who were mainly hunters, seemingly left no artifacts, but they did leave beautiful pictographs, or rock paintings, such as the group of ghostly human figures on the sandstone wall of Horseshoe Canyon

45. Defiance House was discovered in 1959
Defiance House was discovered in Exploring the area before Lake Powell was created, University of Utah archeologists followed a dangerous hand-and-toe-hold trail up the sandstone cliff and were delighted to find an Anasazi site where "most of the roofs were still in place, and... two perfect red bowls still had scraps of food in them.“ They named the site "Defiance House“ for the large pictograph (rock painting) of warriors brandishing clubs and shields.

46. Desert Culture Pictograph, California
These hand prints are over 800 years old. They were found above Double Stack Ruin in Butler Wash near Bluff,Utah. For more info, visit Beyond Mesa Verde

47. They are in Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Chinle, Arizona
These hands were made by blowing the paint onto the hand leaving a negative image.
They are in Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Chinle, Arizona

48. Intaglios
Intaglios are large ground drawings created by removing the pebbles that make up desert pavement. Intaglios are usually in the outline of animals (zoomorphs) or human-like figures (anthropomorphs). Intaglios are found on mesas along the Colorado River more so than in other places.

49. The geoglyphics vary in form, style and size with the largest figure in the Blythe area, a man over 165 feet long, thought to be a giant hunter, being constructed like the other figures in the area through the removal of a surface layer of darkened rock, exposing a lighter soil underneath.

50. Intaglios are very susceptible to damage
Intaglios are very susceptible to damage.  This arm of the largest figure neat Blythe, CA, illustrates the damage caused by vehicle tires.  If you visit an intaglio remember that even footsteps can damage the figures.

51. Another Graphic History: Wintercounts
 For generations, Plains Indians drew pictographs to document their daily experiences. 
The Lakota term for winter count is wniyetu wowapi. The word Wowapi translates as “anything that can be read or counted.”  Waniyetu is the Lakota word for year, which is measured from first snow to first snow.

52. Winter counts were dynamic documents of recorded history
Winter counts were dynamic documents of recorded history.  Variations between similar counts occurred if a community historian chose to emphasize a different aspect of an event or select another event all together. Differences among winter count narratives may also be the result of inaccurate translation from Lakota to English. The winter count, like history, is selective representation of a people’s past. The narratives usually reflect both the community’s history and culture.

53. Winter counts were also used by individuals within the tribal community to record specific events in their own lives. Tribal communities made up of members of extended family or tiyospayes also recorded their story and experiences on a winter count so it was not uncommon to have multiple copies of winter counts within a community. 

54. Kills Two, Brule´ Sioux Medicine Man, is painting on a deer hide the “Big Missouri” Winter Count – the pictorial record of their tribe from  Photography by John A. Anderson, c. 1923

55. Lakota Wintercounts Lone Dog – 1800 - 1870
This version of the Lone Dog count painted on cow hide was acquired by the museum in 1952 from an antique dealer without any information on who made it or when.

57. http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html Great Sioux Reservation
Depiction of Various Tribal Groups in wintercounts

58. Assignments Thursday - vocabulary quiz
Week #1 Assignments due -- negotiate extensions?
Next week – Tuesday report to Parade Ground, West Road between #17 and #16