PowWows.com - Native American Indian Pow Wows

DaisyMaisy · 11-14-2016, 01:12 AM

Hello, this is probably a stupid question, but my curiosity is acting up again. I was watching some documentary on animals that lived in North America way back in the Ice Age. So I got to thinking about the people who shared the area with ginormous bears, enormous sloths (who would have thought a giant sloth would exist?), mammoths, saber toothed tigers and all these impressive critters. Are those times just way, way too long ago to remember, or are there still stories about those animals? Hopefully that's not a religious/sensitive type of question - apologies in advance if it is!

**Ndnsoldierboy** · 11-14-2016, 07:56 PM

I have never heard of any stories of the ice age animals.

OLChemist · 11-15-2016, 12:02 PM

My people have stories about the fossil bones in the Badlands.

DaisyMaisy · 11-15-2016, 11:40 PM

Thanks for the replies! I suppose having the bones around would make a difference...otherwise it was a long, long time ago.

xTekno · 11-16-2016, 09:29 AM

How about Sid, Diego, or Scrat?

wyo_rose · 11-17-2016, 12:54 PM

This is SO interesting!! Of course these stories were probably lost over the last several thousand years.

However, there are discoveries being made all the time. I was trying to make it to a talk the other night put on by one of the researchers at the LaPrelle Mammoth Site in WY, where they made some exciting discoveries, including the oldest bead in the area...like 10,000 years + , the oldest bone needle found, and many tools that showed that Natives feasted on these great beasts back then.

Just think of how innovative Natives had to be back in the Ice age, not only to hunt the mammoths and other megafauna, but to survive against the giant bears, wolves, sabertooths, etc... that were lurking around.

I heard a story in Alaska about how they hunted the giant bears that lived back in the day...using the beasts own weight to impale itself...but I don't know if it was a "recent" giant bear, or an ice age one.

This is one of my FAVORITE subjects, but there's not a lot about it online. :\

WhoMe · 11-21-2016, 10:22 AM

My tribe has words for the mammoth, sabre tooth tiger and a big white bear we assume is a polar bear. All these words are in a an ancient language that is no longer used and took place before we migrated south from what is now Canada.

wyo_rose · 11-21-2016, 12:50 PM

Wow, WhoMe!! That is so interesting! Could you share those words? I would like to see if there are some similar words in Shoshone.

DaisyMaisy · 11-21-2016, 11:47 PM

Haha xTekno, I think the Scrat legend is on a need to know basis only!

That is so cool that there are still old words in some languages. There had to be some great campfire stories. Like fishing stories but way better. That mammoth was sooooo big!! And it gets better with every telling...People would have had to be pretty darn resilient I think, going out and finding food without becoming food themselves!

Actually I was reading more, and the Clovis spear point that is over 11,000 years old was found embedded IN a mammoth fossil which is so amazing. Maybe a friend of your beadmaker, Wyo Rose! Kind of around the same time.

WhoMe · 12-06-2016, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wyo_rose

Wow, WhoMe!! That is so interesting! Could you share those words? I would like to see if there are some similar words in Shoshone.

They aren't. Our language is an isolate language and much different from Shoshone/Comanche/Paiute. I have only heard them spoken once from an elder that has since made his journey.

11-14-2016, 01:12 AM	#1
DaisyMaisy Tiny Tot Dancer Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Oregon Posts: 36 Credits: 1,786.33 Savings: 0.00 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s) Quoted: 10 Post(s) Achievements vBActivity - Stats Level: 4 vBActivity - Bars Lv. Percent: 19.51% Daily Activity 0.7% Weekly Activity 0.7% Monthly Activity 0.45%	Ice age animals? Hello, this is probably a stupid question, but my curiosity is acting up again. I was watching some documentary on animals that lived in North America way back in the Ice Age. So I got to thinking about the people who shared the area with ginormous bears, enormous sloths (who would have thought a giant sloth would exist?), mammoths, saber toothed tigers and all these impressive critters. Are those times just way, way too long ago to remember, or are there still stories about those animals? Hopefully that's not a religious/sensitive type of question - apologies in advance if it is! Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-14-2016, 07:56 PM	#2
Ndnsoldierboy is rockin & rollin \m/ Items Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Home of the Brave Posts: 39,166 Credits: 76,397.87 Savings: 52.80 Mentioned: 258 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s) Quoted: 184 Post(s) Achievements Items vBActivity - Stats Level: 47 vBActivity - Bars Lv. Percent: 0.39% Daily Activity 0.7% Weekly Activity 0.7% Monthly Activity 0.45%	I have never heard of any stories of the ice age animals. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter windanncer likes this. __________________ R.I.P. my Bros from the 1st MAR DIV, 3rd MAR DIV, 25th I.D., 10th MTN DIV, V Corps, 170th IBCT who gave their lives in the Cold War, Marines we lost in Korea during Team Spirit '89 & Okinawa '89- bodies never recovered, Panama, 1st Gulf War, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq... Come on Rez Dawg, you can make it, just another step to go....

11-15-2016, 12:02 PM	#3
OLChemist Pow Wow Committee Items Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 2,899 Credits: 52,674.52 Savings: 0.00 Mentioned: 292 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s) Quoted: 678 Post(s) Achievements Awards Items vBActivity - Stats Level: 19 vBActivity - Bars Lv. Percent: 19.45% Daily Activity 98.67% Weekly Activity 23.2% Monthly Activity 8.24%	My people have stories about the fossil bones in the Badlands. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter windanncer and subeeds like this.

11-15-2016, 11:40 PM	#4
DaisyMaisy Tiny Tot Dancer Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Oregon Posts: 36 Credits: 1,786.33 Savings: 0.00 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s) Quoted: 10 Post(s) Achievements vBActivity - Stats Level: 4 vBActivity - Bars Lv. Percent: 19.51% Daily Activity 0.7% Weekly Activity 0.7% Monthly Activity 0.45%	Thanks for the replies! I suppose having the bones around would make a difference...otherwise it was a long, long time ago. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

11-16-2016, 09:29 AM	#5
xTekno Standing Rock Items Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Tsézhintah, AZ Posts: 21,384 Blog Entries: 15 Credits: 86,596.98 Savings: 1.00 Mentioned: 414 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s) Quoted: 2187 Post(s) Items Achievements Awards vBActivity - Stats Level: 52 vBActivity - Bars Lv. Percent: 56.27% Daily Activity 14.7% Weekly Activity 3.7% Monthly Activity 1.13%	How about Sid, Diego, or Scrat? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter windanncer, Itzhecatl and DaisyMaisy like this.

PowWows.com - Native American Indian Pow Wows

Join the online community forum celebrating Native American Culture, Pow Wows, tribes, music, art, and history.

Join PowWows.com Today!

New Threads

Pow Wow Calendar Search

Quick Links

Videos

Featured Articles

Dance Styles

Crafts

Gallery

PowWows.com - Native American Indian Pow Wows

Multimedia

Community

Calendar

PowWow Information

Native American Information

11-17-2016, 12:54 PM	#6
wyo_rose Ready to dance Items Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Back and Forth Posts: 16,510 Blog Entries: 2 Credits: 63,056.53 Savings: 0.00 Mentioned: 390 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s) Quoted: 1127 Post(s) Achievements Awards Items vBActivity - Stats Level: 27 vBActivity - Bars Lv. Percent: 87.84% Daily Activity 0.7% Weekly Activity 0.7% Monthly Activity 0.45%	This is SO interesting!! Of course these stories were probably lost over the last several thousand years. However, there are discoveries being made all the time. I was trying to make it to a talk the other night put on by one of the researchers at the LaPrelle Mammoth Site in WY, where they made some exciting discoveries, including the oldest bead in the area...like 10,000 years + , the oldest bone needle found, and many tools that showed that Natives feasted on these great beasts back then. Just think of how innovative Natives had to be back in the Ice age, not only to hunt the mammoths and other megafauna, but to survive against the giant bears, wolves, sabertooths, etc... that were lurking around. I heard a story in Alaska about how they hunted the giant bears that lived back in the day...using the beasts own weight to impale itself...but I don't know if it was a "recent" giant bear, or an ice age one. This is one of my FAVORITE subjects, but there's not a lot about it online. :\ Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter Ndnsoldierboy and windanncer like this. __________________ ...it is what it is... Last edited by wyo_rose; 11-17-2016 at 01:01 PM..

11-21-2016, 10:22 AM	#7
WhoMe PauWau Coordinator Items Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Land of 370 Broken Treaties Posts: 7,137 Credits: 11,203.60 Savings: 0.00 Mentioned: 108 Post(s) Tagged: 1 Thread(s) Quoted: 243 Post(s) Achievements Items vBActivity - Stats Level: 12 vBActivity - Bars Lv. Percent: 6.08% Daily Activity 0.7% Weekly Activity 0.7% Monthly Activity 0.9%	My tribe has words for the mammoth, sabre tooth tiger and a big white bear we assume is a polar bear. All these words are in a an ancient language that is no longer used and took place before we migrated south from what is now Canada. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter wyo_rose and windanncer like this. __________________ Powwows will continue to evolve in many directions. It is inevitable.

11-21-2016, 12:50 PM	#8
wyo_rose Ready to dance Items Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Back and Forth Posts: 16,510 Blog Entries: 2 Credits: 63,056.53 Savings: 0.00 Mentioned: 390 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s) Quoted: 1127 Post(s) Achievements Awards Items vBActivity - Stats Level: 27 vBActivity - Bars Lv. Percent: 87.84% Daily Activity 0.7% Weekly Activity 0.7% Monthly Activity 0.45%	Wow, WhoMe!! That is so interesting! Could you share those words? I would like to see if there are some similar words in Shoshone. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter windanncer likes this. __________________ ...it is what it is...

11-21-2016, 11:47 PM	#9
DaisyMaisy Tiny Tot Dancer Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Oregon Posts: 36 Credits: 1,786.33 Savings: 0.00 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s) Quoted: 10 Post(s) Achievements vBActivity - Stats Level: 4 vBActivity - Bars Lv. Percent: 19.51% Daily Activity 0.7% Weekly Activity 0.7% Monthly Activity 0.45%	Haha xTekno, I think the Scrat legend is on a need to know basis only! That is so cool that there are still old words in some languages. There had to be some great campfire stories. Like fishing stories but way better. That mammoth was sooooo big!! And it gets better with every telling...People would have had to be pretty darn resilient I think, going out and finding food without becoming food themselves! Actually I was reading more, and the Clovis spear point that is over 11,000 years old was found embedded IN a mammoth fossil which is so amazing. Maybe a friend of your beadmaker, Wyo Rose! Kind of around the same time. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)

Thread Tools	Search this Thread
Show Printable Version Email this Page	Search this Thread: Advanced Search
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
What animal(s) best represent your spirit?	Pete walkswithhorse	Chit Chat	26	01-22-2013 08:20 PM
Four Animals	nt_inuk	Jokes and Humor	0	01-19-2006 08:27 PM
Alphabet Animals	ABgrassdancer	Games and Polls	114	11-04-2005 03:30 PM
Animals and Pets	~pathwalker~	Chit Chat	287	06-29-2005 04:10 PM


Month:	Year:
Location: