NATAMST 90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Abalone
3 Oct 2018
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Yurok origin story: about how prairie became the ocean. People can"t live on earth without water. Greater powers that are trying to change the earth. Try to use abalone shells to make an ocean. Earthquakes sinks the land as he continues to travel north end of world. Earthquake & kingfisher travel to southend of the world. Referred to as food people could live off of. Salmon can live in fresh & salt water. Story has been told many times & modified over time. Native people were living in this changing world. Everyone has an origin story part of the human condition. Always idea that earth is alive not sedentary. Draft: cascadia megathrust earthquakes in pacific northwest indian myths and. Oldest earthquakes in cascadia are known from geologic evidence. Most current accounts for tsunami that was in japan. European diseases spread across the continent must faster than the settlement. Pacific northwest native populations were diminished long before the arrival of.
