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Reading Notes W3: Part B

Tac (103-107)
Hastings (121-122)
Austin: Nurslings of the Sky (scroll down to find story with this title

·      Pablo Tac
·      Born Mission of San Luis Rey Francia, north of San Diego.
·      People known Quechnajuichom
·      Written work California Indian
§  Of the Dances of Indians 
·      Quechanajuis
·     All Indian peoples have their own dances, distinct from each other. 
·     California Indians do not dance just for festivals but in remembrance of the grandparents, uncles and aunts, and parents now dead. 
·      On the first dance no one can dance without permission with the elders. They must be from the same age group.
·      Clothing is of feathers of different colors and the body painted, chest exposed. The face is painted. Their head is buond with a band of hair woven so as to be able to thrust in the cheyatom.
o  This cheyat is made of feathers of any bird, and almost always from crows and from hawks, and in the middle a sharp little stick that allows it to go in. 

Whitefield: Self-Reliance
·      Having faith
·      God’s lesson
·      Black oppression
·      Fighting for equality
·      Background on Whitfield
o   Born New Hampshire 1822
o   Published in Fredrick Douglas paper

Austin: Nurslings of the Sky
·      Storms that formed in the hills, almost human like
·      There was a flood that caused destruction
·      Nature was not the cause, people caused it with there mistreatment of the area
·     Native Americans learned how to use smoke signals by watching dust pillars forming by the desert winds
·     “It is astonishing the trouble men will be at to find out when to plant potatoes, and gloze over the eternal meaning of the skies.”


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