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For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ] , / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters . Mi'kmaw hieroglyphic writing or Suckerfish script ( Mi'kmawi'sit : Gomgwejui'gasit ) was a writing system for the Mi'kmaw language , later superseded by various Latin scripts which are currently ...
Mazama temama (Central American red brocket) [citation needed] Menhaden (Brevoortia and Ethmidium) forage fish: Algonquian: A blend of poghaden probably from Abenaki or Penobscot, and an Algonquian word akin to Narragansett munnawhatteaûg, derived from munnohquohteau ("he fertilizes"), referring to their use of the fish as fertilizer. [160 ...
Nanabozho is a shapeshifter who is both zoomorphic as well as anthropomorphic, meaning that Nanabozho can take the shape of animals or humans in storytelling. [5] Thus Nanabush takes many different forms in storytelling, often changing depending on the tribe.
Native American remains were on display in museums up until the 1960s. [129] Though many did not yet view Native American art as a part of the mainstream as of the year 1992, there has since then been a great increase in volume and quality of both Native art and artists, as well as exhibitions and venues, and individual curators.
Totem poles, a type of Northwest Coast art. Northwest Coast art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists from Tlingit, Haida, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth and other First Nations and Native American tribes of the Northwest Coast of North America, from pre-European-contact times up to the present.
The primary non-Native source for academic information on Zuni fetishes is the Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology submitted in 1881 by Frank Hamilton Cushing and posthumously published as Zuni Fetishes in 1966, with several later reprints. Cushing reports that the Zuni divided the world into six regions or directions: north, west ...
The Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast are composed of many nations and tribal affiliations, each with distinctive cultural and political identities. They share certain beliefs, traditions and practices, such as the centrality of salmon as a resource and spiritual symbol, and many cultivation and subsistence practices.
The Gros Ventre were reported living in two north–south tribal groups – the so-called Fall Indians (Canadian or northern group, Hahá-tonwan) of 260 tipis (2,500 population) traded with the North West Company on the Upper Saskatchewan River [clarification needed] and roamed between the Missouri and Bow River, and the so-called Staetan tribe ...