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Culture-> Indian Symbols: Pueblo symbols and their meanings
Posted on Monday, June 05 @ 02:19:47 PDT (12400 reads)

Symbols are visual clues that indicate or represent something. For the Pueblo Indians, colors have come to represent directions symbolically. For instance, for the Hopi, yellow represents north, white represents east, red represents south, blue represents west, and black represents "above." For centuries, the Hopi have grown maize in each of these colors.

Other Pueblo symbols include the following:

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Culture-> Indian Symbols: Fetishes and their character meanings
Posted on Tuesday, May 31 @ 11:22:29 PDT (10104 reads)

Prized for their "down to earth" beauty and spiritual renewal, fetishes have long been an important part of Native American culture.

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Culture-> Indian Symbols: Anishnaabek (Ojibwe) interpretation of the medicine wheel
Posted on Saturday, November 13 @ 00:21:36 PST (21307 reads)

Anishnaabek (Ojibwe) interpretation of the medicine wheel.. KEYWORDS: meanings of the medicine wheel Anishnaabek Anishnaabe Ojibwe Ojibwa Abenaki indian symbols circle of life ojibwe language lesson anishnaabek language lesson words related to the medicine wheel

All tribes have a form of medicine wheel. There is no single answer as to its meaning. The Anishnaabek often referred to the medicine wheel as the CIRCLE OF LIFE symbolizing the natural cycles of birth, growth, death, and regeneration.

The FOUR CIRCLES are viewed in a clockwise direction. East will be to the viewer's right, south on the bottom and west on the left. In native culture we start in the east and rotate to the south and west, arriving at the north circle on top.

Here are some of the interpretations of the medicine wheel:

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Culture-> Indian Symbols: Northwest Indian Symbols and their meanings
Posted on Tuesday, November 09 @ 19:48:39 PST (385767 reads)

Northwest Indian Symbols and their meanings.. KEYWORDS: northwest indian symbols meaning of northwest symbols native american symbol indian symbolism indian art american indian symbols american indian art

Totem carvings tell a story, revealed only if one knows the meaning assigned to various animals, fish, birds and designs and where they are placed. Here are the meanings of some common northwest indian symbols.

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Culture-> Indian Symbols: Plains Indian Animal Symbols
Posted on Tuesday, November 09 @ 19:31:50 PST (30520 reads)

Plains Indian Animal Symbols.. KEYWORDS: indian symbols indigenous people's symbols of american indians plains indian symbols

The examples below are a small sample of the total number of symbols used by the Great Plains people. Not every tribe used these same examples, however, as with sign languages, they were often used as a common means of communication to convey a central idea.

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Culture-> Indian Symbols: Plains Indian Symbols
Posted on Tuesday, November 09 @ 19:11:19 PST (22845 reads)

Plains Indian Symbols.. KEYWORDS: indian symbols indigenous people's symbols of american indians plains indian symbols

The examples below are but a small sample of the total number of symbols used by the Great Plains people. Not every tribe used these same examples, however, as with sign languages, they were often used as a common means of communication to convey a central idea.

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Culture-> Indian Symbols: Southwest Indian Symbols
Posted on Tuesday, November 09 @ 18:43:50 PST (34997 reads)

Southwest Indian Symbols... KEYWORDS: southwest indian symbols of indigenous peoples american indian symbol hopi symbol navajo symbol sacred symbols mother earth symbol kokopelli flute player symbol Hopi nakwách symbol of brotherhood friendship symbol fertility symbol sign of the Elder War God Hopi God of Death Maasaw connected circles keptevipi Tapu'a Mother Earth symbol of spiritual rebirth House of Teuhu

Here is a brief explanation of some Southwest Indian symbols.

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Culture-> Indian Symbols: Native American symbolism, culture and ceremony
Posted on Thursday, October 28 @ 00:17:11 PDT (6822 reads)

Native American symbolism... KEYWORDS: native american symbolism native american symbols meaning of indian symbols aboriginal symbolism indian culture american indian symbols

There are many symbols, practices and customs, some of which are well-known to many people and some which are known only to a few. The following is a list with brief explanations about each. To achieve full understanding of some of these symbols and practices, one must personally experience them or be led to enlightenment through traditional teachings of an elder. The explanations for the items are therefore brief and are intended to provide a broad overview of things that may have different meanings to people of different cultural backgrounds.

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Culture-> Indian Symbols: Flags of Canada's indigenous people
Posted on Thursday, February 20 @ 18:59:09 PST (15446 reads)

KEYWORDS: flags of Canada's indigenous people canadian flags Indian flag first nation flags Native People's flag Canada aboriginal flag

There are many more aboriginal flags than those presented here. The following are just a few of the many flags adopted by Canada's indigenous people, stretching from the Arctic to the Canadian/ U.S. border.

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Culture-> Indian Symbols: US Tribal Flags History and Thumbnail Gallery
Posted on Thursday, February 20 @ 02:36:58 PST (34750 reads)

KEYWORDS: free Indian pictures tribal flags Indian flags flag indian nation flag confederated tribes flag US Tribal Flags US Indian flags modern Indian symbols history of Indian flags indian flag native people's flags flag of ative people indigenous flag aboriginal flag

Indians of the United States have traditionally been people without flags, relying upon costume, art and totems to distinguish themselves from one another and from the European dominated culture that is the modern United States.

However, in the last fifty years, that tradition has been changing. Many of the nearly 600 recognized and unrecognized Indian tribes found within the United States are without flags, but an increasing number of tribes and nations have started using this form of symbolism that was previously alien to their culture. In fact, more Indian communities now have flags than don't.

The adoption of flags by tribes can be seen in some instances as a tool to instill pride in the hearts and minds of people too often forgotten and abused by the federal and state governments with which they were involuntarily saddled.

Another major inducement for Native American tribes, nations, bands,communities, townships, and rancherias to adopt flags has been their increasing involvement in the gaming industry.

Click the "Read More" link for thumbnailed galleries of some of these flags.

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Culture-> Indian Symbols: Zuni tradition lives in fetishes
Posted on Thursday, August 01 @ 16:18:14 PDT (10925 reads)

KEYWORDS: Zuni fetishes sacred and powerful fetish animal carvings Zuni tribe Native Americans bear medicine snake medicine horny toad fetish frog medicine hunting fetish coyote fetishes Lasiloo-Jim turquoise fetish Zuni Indian Reservation Gallup NM fetish worship

AUTHOR: Valerie Gritton
Staff Writer, The Daily Times

FARMINGTON, N.M. -- The Zuni consider the things least understood and most mysterious to be the most sacred and powerful. Because animal ways can never truly be understood, animals represent those unknown powers.

To them, those powers can be transferred to diminutive animal carvings known as fetishes.

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Culture-> Indian Symbols: Common Indian Symbols used in Indian jewelry and their generally accepted meanin
Posted on Monday, February 11 @ 17:55:16 PST (36994 reads)

Keywords: Indian symbols used in jewelry meaning of indian symbols symbols used in sterling silver jewelry southwest jewelry navajo jewelry hopi pueblo Indian Jewelry culture indian symbol thunderbird kokopelli broken arrow happiness strength freedom

This article contains a chart of commonly used symbols in
modern Indian jewelry designs, along with a brief explanation
of the symbol's meaning.

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Culture-> Indian Symbols: Searching for information on a specific Thunderbird symbol
Posted on Monday, February 11 @ 15:22:40 PST (12218 reads)

tophat writes There are many styles of the "THUNDERBIRD."

I seek to locate the people who have depicted the Thunderbird with a triangle/pyramid in the center of the birds chest.

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Culture-> Indian Symbols: Indian symbols used on the hunting horse
Posted on Thursday, January 10 @ 00:54:15 PST (31830 reads)

Julia_White writes Since the Indian hunting horse had different duties than that of a war horse, a different set of symbols were used to aid the hunting horse and his rider.

Designed to help the Indian hunter in finding the buffalo herd, many of these symbols also brought favor from the Great Spirit.

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Culture-> Indian Symbols: Indian symbols used on the war horse
Posted on Thursday, January 10 @ 00:03:10 PST (62918 reads)

Julia_White writes The Indian war horse was highly regarded by its American Indian owner, who often honored and protected his war horse by painting tribal symbols upon the animal's body.

While the symbols used and their meanings varied from tribe to tribe, there were some common symbols that were widely used on the Indian war horse.

Each power symbol has its own specific meaning and the purpose for which it was used was determined by the nature of the dangerous job which the war horse would be asked to do.

The Indian would decorate his horse with carefully chosen war symbols or power symbols which might be intended to give him protection, to indicate the troubles which lay ahead, or which spoke of the courageous heart of the war horse. Some symbols told of the horse's affection for the warrior. In this article, you will find explanations of some symbols which Indians used to decorate their war horses.

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