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**__The History of my tribes__**

My name is Shasta and I am 25 years old. I am in the root of Native America, that means that I am an Indian, a Cherokee. I am a warrior and a hunter and my other tasks in my tribe painting the sculptures and helping all in my tribe hen they need help. My family is consisting of me, my squaw and our two children. We live in our tent. My squaw works very hard with duties related to Unnecessary the holdings of our two children, and all the necessary things that are happening during the whole day. as you know very much can happen with two small children jumping all over and keeping us very busy. Even I have to jump in and help my wife, if not it would be far too much for her to cover, as the days on the prairie can be very long. The painting is something I like very much. Normally I do paint on wooden material or on leather from animals that I have been hunting and killing. We use them to symbol different religious patterns that we believe in. Also to emphasize different religious tasks and  patterns that my tribe use. , related to our needs in the root, like; pottery, jewelry, basketry, weavings, paintings, silver work, Art sculptures and woodcarvings. These ways of expressing myself is something that I love, it makes me and my family happy, as well as all of the other members of my root. In this manner I am doing something for the culture of my root and I can m  ake some (money) to make a better living standard for me and my family.I make my family too, more happy.

As I mentioned earlier with my paintings and other artistic doings, some of the purpose especially with the paintings is to frighten the bad ghosts and to protect our tribe a  nd my family to unexpected attacks from the world of the ghosts.

The members of the tribe a  nd I have to protect us as well, so during the night we have some warriors standing on guard to look for enemies, and especially such warriors from other tribes that are trying to kill us. Animals, like tigers, lions can be dangerous. The snakes, cobras and other poisoning animals can be dangerous too. If an attack is coming we have signals like dear sounds and everybody of our tribes know these signals and then we can all react and hopefully protect our lives.

During the day we hunt different animals to be able to feed our families and so that we, warriors, also do not starve too Lo  ng. Then the power in our muscles will disappear. Water is also important to get from the different water sources, these duties are mainly covered from our squaws.

Once, a beautiful morning in  fall, two years ago, me and some friend of my tribe went out early, hunting. These other warriors were, HOTHLEPOYA, wild hunter, AJACOPA, the calm. AH POCH, god of death, and others of my. We wanted to do some hunting on wild buffaloes, which were known to come to water resources, close to our camp. As primitive Indians we had no guns, but were equipped with bows and arrows as well as some self made knifes. The arrows had different shapes. Some of them were very small and some of the arrows pretty long. Also at the tip of an arrow, a secret, in my tribe was to fit into the tip of the arrow some poison that we had from the tongue of the king cobra that we used to kill in our wild traps. Once during such a hunting event, some other warriors from another tribe tried to attack us from behind, and because of our secret weapon, we killed three of their members very fast. This was enough for the others to start  Because we were not prepared for this attack I also lost one of my best friends at the beginning. This was very sad and I will tell you a little about our way to feel the sorrow and the way of dealing with a death in our

When people of our root die, we do not burry them, but carry them up in the wood in an opening before the wood really starts. Here we have a kind of stand, which is built of wood. It is a kind of a high plateau to lie on. On the top of this stand we lay our dead members of the root, and lay close to them things that they will need when coming to the world of the ghosts.

As they are laying there for days we have ceremonies down in the tribute. These ceremonies  for many hours, and consist of crying, singing and   at the ghosts, so that their lives will become as good as possible after going up to the ghosts in the other world, the world beyond the one that we are having down on mother earth land.

At the end I will tell you about which one of the root members that are the wisest one and the one that are healing all diseases and other things that are worrying members of our root. That is the old man, the chief of the root. He is the wisest man, and he is also able to taking contact for the spirit world and helps us like this in handling different tasks.

His tent is situated in the middle of our camp. The whole root/tribute is building their tents around his tent. The oldest people of the root is closer to his tent that the younger warriors tents. tribes. Also the younger are better able    all of us.

These were some words about me, my family and my tribe.

Probably this gave you some ideas about our way of living and our habits.