NATAMST 90 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Native Americans In The United States, Fish, California

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Native American Studies
• Course: NATAMST 90
• Professor: Diane Pearson

Document Summary

Fossil legends of the first americans excerpts, the high plains: thunder birds, Water monsters, and buffalo-calling stones -- adrienne mayor. Oloni: folks mostly alive in the bay area. Fossil hunters actually went out and hired american hunters. Know about land and what goes on around you. Observed the world they lived in & understood the land was very very old. At night for entertainment they looked at the sky. Understood the earth was part of a system. Almost every tribe has a migration story about how we came to become who we are. Native americans have been blamed for killing off all native fauna. Ponies would know where all the fossil bones were. Fossil bone doctors would powder them and use them to cover up wounds. Sioux (enemy): la cota, big t-rex skeleton was found on one of the ranch reservations. Reservations are owned in common by the tribe. Think back to chicken bone analogy with thigh bone.