hello, I am doing a project in school that is due tommrrow, and i can not find anything...please help me. the project I am doing is on Native American Indains...I am researching them on thier time, and clanders. Can you please help me find a website with answers such as "the clock or method the culture used tp devlop the timepiece of Native Americans" and "Where there any prblems of this method of keeping time?" also, "How has the cultures development of time unfluenced our "time keeping" today? that is all i need to find. thank you.
2007-01-31 10:13:38 · 5 answers · asked by paige 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
In many Native cultures time and space are thought of as fundamentally different from that of contemporary culture. Past, present, and future are seen as connecting and as equally important. Many Native people run on what they jokingly refer to as "Indian time" which generally means they are running late, taking things more slowly, not running on a clock. The clock is in some ways arbitrary and forceful whereas in many Native cultures it is important to live in a fluid way with the environment and not forcefully with time. It is important in many Native cultures to recognize the past, the present, and the future. That someone living in the present is learning from their ancestors and living for the next generations. Contemporary time keeping is linear everything goes in order, "we" go from past to present to future. This is not necessarily true in Native culture, time is circular. Time also occurs in space, in the environment around you. It is a very complicated concept.
2007-01-31 13:00:17 · answer #1 · answered by RedPower Woman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In most Native American culture the way of telling time was with the sun during the day and the moon at night they did not own watches becaused they believed that the ticking was evil. They also didn't believe in having there pictures taken because the image (in the picture) would steal your soul.
And according to statastics today the sales of watches are down 40% and they will be obsolete in the future because most people use cell phones which has a clock built into them.
2007-01-31 10:37:18 · answer #2 · answered by kathy h 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All I know of in regard to a calender is the "winter counts" of the D/N/Lakota. Check this out... http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html
2007-01-31 12:26:29 · answer #3 · answered by Indigo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what native language were you writing in, because that sure as hell wasn't English!
2007-01-31 10:18:17 · answer #4 · answered by Matt 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
maybe a sundial?
2007-01-31 10:18:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋