Native Americans

                               

Native Americans throughout history have been seen as “Savages” and “Uncivilised” compared to that of the European White Man. All of the Native tribes from across the country were categorised as the same; they all wear feathers, they all use bow and arrows, they all dance around fires. This couldn’t be more from the truth. The diversity of environments determined the way in which the tribes evolved – Weather, landscape, temperature.

This website: http://www.tolatsga.org/aben.html focuses on the history of the Abenaki Tribe. It looks at a range of things associated with the tribe; Names, Language, Divisions, Culture and there History. Extending across most of northern New England into the southern part of the Canadian Maritimes, the Abenaki called their homeland Ndakinna meaning "our land." 

Here are two of the sub catergories in detail:

Population

“Before contact the Abenaki (excluding the Pennacook and Micmac) may have numbered as many as 40,000 divided roughly between 20,000 eastern; 10,000 western; and 10,000 maritime.” Diseases from Europe such as Smallpox, killed off thousands of them. Currently there is about 3,000 members of the tribe left and they have a committee in the State of Vermont. They been given recognition on a local level. But In 1982 they applied for federal recognition which is still pending.

Language

“Algonquin, but distinct from the languages of the Micmac to the north and the New England Algonquin to the south. There was also a dialectic difference between the eastern and western Abenaki with language of the western Abenaki being closer to that of the Pennacook.”

It would seem though that in today’s world Native American Tribe are becoming more accepted on a state level giving them rights they hadn’t had ever before. Hopefully this acceptance will increase on the same path making it a brighter future.

Picture Source: 

http://people.ucls.uchicago.edu/~snekros/2008-9%20webquests/products3/index.html