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Amy Gibson
Excellent points and information, Jennifer. What about the effects of the gig economy on the economy as a whole? Do you think it has more benefits or more costs? Would this type of work help during a recession?
Jessica Henderson
I agree that one of the benefits include the flexibility of hours. I would love to be able to take a vacation whenever i wanted! I do not like how it does not provide the benefits that full time employment does with retirements and health insurance. Great job on your post!
Module 1 What does it mean to be matrilineal and what roles can it play in the political and economics of those tribes (Southwest and Iroquois).
Robert Thorpe
According to Dictionary,com Matrilineal means: inheriting or determining descent through the female line. I didn't quite understand that definition until reading some of the other threads and by also looking up the Iroquois Tribe on USHistory.org. Faith directly influenced the economic conditions and oversight of crops and anything else that came from Mother Earth was given to the women. Females would oversee the of dispersing of food. During the Confederacy of the Iroquois women would select the Sachems(or representatives) that would act in their political interest.
According to Brian Schwimmer at University of Manitoba the women of the Hopi would own the house, crops and land. They would also hold important ritual roles as well as judicial office positions.
The roles that Native American women play It this why some Native Americans differs vastly from the European role. I wonder if it is for this reason that Native American women like Pocahontas and Sacagawea became intertwined with early American history?
Module 1 Analyze the effects of maize’s introduction into the Misssissippian culture and how does its introduction changed the ways in which the people interacted.
David Turner
The introduction of maize into the Mississippian culture changed the nomadic lifestyle of the people into an agricultural one. Rather than constantly moving, looking for food, permanent houses were constructed near the fields of maize. People moved into richer more fertile areas for growing crops. Centers of greater population emerged. Just as in any culture, as the populations increased there was also an increase in power. Political power was from the control of the surplus of maize. Classes of people began to emerge; the ruling class, the upper class, and the commoners. Central mounds were built in centers of towns or villages. Political and spiritual power emerged. Rather than smaller tribes focusing on family, the larger concentrations of people focused on community. The surplus corn was used as currency for trading, bringing in minerals and metals. The trade routes enriched the Mississippian culture. Maize led to the downfall of the Mississippian Culture as well. War and feuding over surplus and land, self-contained groups that did not need the larger communities, and populations moving away from the ceremonial centers.
Module 2 Discussion
Jason Hatcher
The first European settlers arrived on large sailing ships the natives did not process. The first settlers arrived with armor and weapons. The natives lacked iron producing skills to create such armaments. They had written words and their own system of rules. They wore different types of clothes and had domesticated animals. The first Europeans would have felt the natives were uneducated as they did not write. They would have felt the natives could not defend themselves as they did not have superior weaponry. The first Europeans would have felt the natives had no identifiable religions. The first Spanish Europeans would have felt they would need to educate the natives about Catholicism.
The natives at first would not have felt the Europeans were inferior to them. They would have treated them suspiciously at first but would have been more interested in trade. As disease and armed skirmishes with the settlers would have occurred the natives would then begin to feel inferior. The natives could not match the early European’s guns and cannon, or their sheer cruelty of enforcing their will upon them.
Module 2 Discussion
Dawn Flippin
I believe the Indians and the European were both.
The European's began their journey in the new world that they would have to find ways to survive on unknown land and could they bring their current living style to the new land. They believed that their way of life was the only way to live. But as they learned they were not alone since the Native Americans already there and had their own ways of living. As farmers, producing crops, hunters and fishing men. The Native Americans appears to have a smooth way of life.
In most cases the Native Americans had very little interacting with the European's upon their arrival which did not cause them any fear at first. However, later the European's would begin to take advantage of the Native Americans by bearing gifts to trade sometimes for the Native American’s land which could lead one to think the Native Americans were less intelligent.
