American Indian Basketry
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum
Description
Photographs and brief descriptions of selections from the museum's collection.
Includes links to several publications: The Indian Historian; The American Indian Magazine: A Journal of Race Progress; Honga: The Leader; The Indian Voice; Woonspe Wankantu: Santee Normal Training School, and Akwesasne Notes.
Discusses three eras of Native American education: the Pre-Colonial, Colonial, and Post-Colonial and looks at the relevance of the changes on culture recovery.
Examines how the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community was able to build a ceremonial smokehouse and reduce the associated health risks, by applying appropriate technologies.
Discusses pre-contact structures and the techniques used in their construction.