WL ARTS M23 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ghost Dance
4 Oct 2016
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Background: california is the state with the most indians in it, 104 indian reservations in california (state with most reservations, alaska has a number of indigenous communities. People speculate that indigenous people have been here as many as. All american indians are homo sapien sapiens the type we are instead of homo sapien archaic. But indians have not been in control for about to 150-200 years: northern california is considered the southern extension of the northwest. Coast complex, which extends all the way up to alaska. People in this complex use a lot of salmon, rain forests, wood for plank houses. Contact between different groups of indians: indians of eastern california & the great basin kept contact with plains. Great basin is between the sierra nevada mountains and the. As the glaciers retreat and melt, they leave deserts and lakes. Plains indians travelled around the rocky mountains and met with a man named wavoka.
