ANTH 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Elijah Harper, Medieval Commune, Sweat Lodge
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Myth and colonialism - encounters with aboriginal symbolism. Trade and gift diplomacy were important through these cultures. Find dentalia shells from the gulf of mexico in northern canada. Obsidian mined from edziza, bc mined from 8,000 bc until contact traded through north america. World as intermeshed personalized powers great and small. Many creation myths by first nations assert north american origins. Gitksan (northern b. c. ) see upper skeena river valley as their garden of. Ojibwa believe their first ancestors were born of the earth. Eight fire turn from materialism and peace among all. Iroquoians believe the mother of mankind, aataentsic, fell through a hole in the sky and landed on a tortoise with earth piled on its back. Tsimshian, by contrast, speak of migration to their lands. Ex: the origin of the gitxawn group at kitsumkalem (marius. Peanut (american plant) in two chinese sites dating 3,300 bc) Tales of meeting northern natives in fu- sang" ca.