Question

6. How big were Aleut villages? Describe their houses. Discuss their social divisions and the role of the headman. How did a man show his rank?
7. What is special about the environment and location of the Plateau culture area? Give five key resources and defining characteristics of the Plateau.
8. According to their cosmology, who made the Nez Perce? How many villages did they have and how big were their villages? Describe their social hierarchy. Were they peaceful? What was their primary weapon?
9. Describe the typical Northwest town. Where was the best location? Describe their political organization. Discuss warfare- weapons, reasons, attack method.
10. Compare the Subarctic response to twins with that of the Kwakiutl. What was done to high-ranking Kwakiutl female babies? How did the Kwakiutl feel about the dead?

Answer 1

People in Aleut used to live in underground houses called Barabaras. They were pretty big than they look some even upto a height of 150mts. Since it was underground, it had multiple rooms and different families used to live in different rooms.

Aleut village was used to be administered by the village leader who was usually male and was one of the most senior person beloning to a very powerful family of the village. Leadership initiative was sometimes required, particularly for certain subsistence and fighting issues. This implied male family pioneers may counsel as a gathering, demonstrating concession to the man of most elevated position. Even during warfare, several different village leaders used to come together to fight against a common enemy.

A man displayed his rank by his accomplishment, wealth and the amount of local support he had.

Plateau Culture

The Plateau Culture Area is the region between the Cascade Mountains and the Rocky Mountains in Washington. Although most of it is described as semi-arid, it develops into pine forests in the higher elevations.In the northern part the rainforest is temperate with higher precipitation.

The Geography and Environment can be commonly depicted as a zone of lakes, rivers, and coniferous trees which overwhelmed the scene of the Plateau district

During winters, the temperature drops to −34 °C and in summer it rises to 38 °C.

There are three different region of vegetation in the area.

A far reaching trade arrange empowered the trading of products and even slaves was regular in the area.

Nez Perce

Nez Perce were the Plateau Indians. Nez Percé residential life customarily fixated on little villages situated on streams having bounteous salmon, which, dried, shaped their fundamental wellspring of nourishment. They likewise looked for an assortment of game, berries, and roots. Their abodes were mutual lodges, An encircled and tangle secured, differing in size varying upto 30 families. Nez Perce are considered pretty friendly and peaceful but once they acquired horses in 1700s, they got in warfare. Spears, knives, bows and arrows were their primary weapons.

Typical Northwest Town

Northwest Coast Indian, individual from any of the Native American people groups possessing a thin belt of Pacific coastland and seaward islands from the southern outskirt of Alaska to northwestern California. In spite of the fact that the ocean and different mountain ranges give the district particular limits toward the east, north, and west, the change from the Northwest Coast to the California culture zone is progressive. The district's customary societies normally had a elite that controlled use rights to corporately held or public property, with a "house society" type of social association. Within the house group, everyone had a social status that was esteemed by the person's level of relatedness to an establishing predecessor. The high ranked had a lot of power and were incharge of the groups' properties. Most weapons were made out of cedar wood, stone, and shells. Sledgehammers, bow and arrow were common.  Full-fledged wars were a result of disagreements between neighbouring groups. Mostly it was due to property, copper, slaves etc.

Kwakiutl

the Kwakiutl believed one social unit is bigger than the clan-the alliance. High ranking Kwakitul female babies were given the right to inherit the name of the cheif position based on their seniority amongs their siblings.

Death was the vital insult they perceived, and it was met as they met any significant mishap, by dissemination and obliteration of property, by head-hunting, and by suicide. They took perceived methods, that is, to clear out the shame.