Native American culture
Original continental inhabitants
The collective traditions, beliefs, practices, languages, and arts of the indigenous peoples of North America.
The term spans hundreds of distinct nations with their own histories—from Navajo weaving to Lakota sun dances to Haudenosaunee governance.
The museum's exhibit on Native American culture featured both historical artifacts and contemporary work.
Often invoked as a singular concept, though it encompasses enormous diversity.
- Cherokee syllabaryScript for a tribal language
- shamanismMediation between worlds
- Trail of Tears1830s forced indigenous relocation
- beadworkStrung ornament craft
- corn cultivationAgricultural production of maize
wild rice · tribal council · medicine wheel · oral tradition · powwow · drum circle · peace pipe · totem pole · ancestral lands · Indian reservation · storytelling · pottery · clan system · treaties · sand painting · sweat lodge · basketry · sacred landscapes
- culturessubculture, multicultural, counterculture, underground, bohemian
Native American culturesettler colonialism
Occupation displacing native peoples
colonial heritage · Manifest Destiny · WASP culture · immigrant culture
Native American cultureindustrial capitalism
Factory-based profit-driven economy
consumerism · individualism · anthropocentrism · resource exploitation · secular humanism
Native American culturedigital culture
Society shaped by technology
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