Agenda

Seminole Open House

Subsistence

Distribute exams

Subsistence

Making a Living

Hunter and Gatherers

Foragers/scavengers

Most of human history

Nomadic

Egalitarian

limits to what can carry

Sex roles: complimentary

Consensual leadership

Small numbers

25-50

Economy based on reciprocity

food sharing

Best hunter prestige

Evolution of power

Relationship to Land

Home range

Marginal locations

Carrying capacity

resources available in proportion to food-getting techniques and

number of people

food, water, tools, and work necessary to get food

Hunters and Gatherers

Excerpts from "Nanook of the North"

By Robert Flaherty

Food Production

Horticulture

Domestication

Crop cultivation

Slash and burn agriculture

Digging stick or hoe

Change in social structure

Rise of specialists

Giving confers prestige

Redistribution

Division of labor according to sex

Pastoralism

Animal husbandry

Nomadic

movement natural

animals movable wealth

fixed routes

portable homes

Division of labor according to sex

Agriculture

Intensification of farming

Plow and irrigation

Permanent settlements

Increased population size

Intense specialization

Marked inequality

social stratification

redistribution

Specialized political institutions

QUESTION for discussion:

Which of these subsistence bases typify the Lakota?

Before the reservation system?

After moving to reservations?

Compare the subsistence of the Cherokee