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This paper contains the following list of topics along with their picture.

The Navajo Emergence story and a small description of each of the five worlds.

The roles women and men in Navajo society their place

About the “corn and game: women and men in Cherokee society”

Summary OF Kana ti and Selu

The Iroqus great league of peace

Laws of confederacy chiefs of the six nations (1900)

Early American towns

Each topic is discussed in detail along with their picture representation, which will help to understand the basic concept. These topics are in accordance with the native Americans.

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The Navajo Emergence story

A major theme of Navajo ceremonials involves an accounting of how things came to be. Each of the ceremonials typically includes a "creation story" which among other things provides a story, hane', of the origin of the ceremonial. There is a great deal of variance between the various "creation stories" the stories, hane', vary by virtue of the singer who recounts the events, the clans the singer and participants belong to, and the specific context that the ceremonial is conducted in. Thus, several different versions of the creation story have been recorded, and it is quite likely that whole versions have not been made available to the Western researcher.

To be specific one should refer to Navajo "creation stories" in the plural. The most detailed and authoritative of these "creation stories" can be found in the Blessingway - the subject of which is basically the creation of the Navajo universe, the formation of the first hooghan, and the placing of the Navajo people in that universe. A full accounting of a particular performance of Blessingway would fill up an entire book, and there are several by different translators in the library (Bloom 2008).

Source (Bloom 2008)

The roles women and men in Navajo society their place

Navajo society is traditionally matrilineal, meaning that one's clan identity is derived from the female and not the male. In a traditional introduction, a Navajo person will first introduce himself or herself by naming the maternal clan, followed by the paternal clan. Changing Woman, the principal deity of the Navajo religion, represents the many roles that a woman takes on in her lifetime. Changing Woman also created the first Navajo clans and guidelines for living and established the matrilineal system. Navajo women have always been at the core of social and economic control in their culture and occupy a strong position in Navajo life. Women are the potters and weavers, crafts they have been practicing for centuries. Women have traditionally owned the land and livestock, passing these possessions down to their daughters, who have been trained to manage them (Hirschfelder 2003).

Source (Hirschfelder 2003)

Corn and game: women and men in Cherokee society

Many changes have taken place throughout Cherokee society. With the influence of the white man and the introduction of Christianity into everyday life, many of the traditions of Cherokee culture were stripped away or modified to great extents. The marriage of the Cherokee people was one way these new ...