NATAMST 90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sauna, Medicine Man

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

Document Summary

Net loss; commercial salmon farms and the decline of wild salmon. The first salmon ceremony of the karuk indians -- helen h. roberts. Who: karuk indians living along klamath river. Delivered by two wives of medicine men of this tribe. For purpose of making lots of salmon. Custom to pass the honor and onus of office to different men from year to year. Opposite of ike"s place = two special sweat-houses. Men of tribe might visit e. and talk to him but not women. Men would sing songs & keep him awake. Each day, e. went out on mountainside & cut pole with stone knife. After cutting wood, he had to bathe daily in river and prayed that there would be a lot of salmon. Native american women most likely could not have children after their fifties -- but had some other power. General trend of abandonment among young men. Takes a huge amount of time -- school.