{"id":621,"date":"2016-07-28T20:20:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T20:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=621"},"modified":"2021-08-01T15:53:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T15:53:49","slug":"algonquin-village","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/algonquin-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch of an Algonquin Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_615\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-615\" class=\"wp-image-615 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/North_carolina_algonkin-dorf-1000x1296.jpg\" alt=\"An early sketch by settler John White of Native Americans in Virginia. Dancers are shown in a circle and others are sitting in a line. A fire is off to the left.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/North_carolina_algonkin-dorf-1000x1296.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/North_carolina_algonkin-dorf-250x324.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/North_carolina_algonkin-dorf-768x995.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/North_carolina_algonkin-dorf-500x648.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/North_carolina_algonkin-dorf-624x809.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/North_carolina_algonkin-dorf.jpg 1258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John White, &#8220;Village of the Secotan, 1585, via Wikimedia.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Native settlements were usually organized around political, economic, or religious activity. John White shows this Algonquin community engaged in some kind of celebration across from the fire he identified as \u201cThe place of solemne prayer,\u201d indicating that ceremonial activity could be both solemn and raucous. In the center of the image, a communal meal has been laid alongside crops that are in varying stages of growth, suggesting the use of planting techniques like crop rotation. He also shows the interior of several longhouses, made of bent saplings and covered with bark and woven maps. Among the Powhatan, similar structures were called yehakins. In putting the longhouses and the settlement in a series of rows, White\u2019s English perspective comes through: archaeological evidence shows that these houses were usually situated around communal gathering places or moved next to fields under cultivation not ordered in European-style rows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Native settlements were usually organized around political, economic, or religious activity. John White shows this Algonquin community engaged in some kind of celebration across from the fire he identified as \u201cThe place of solemne prayer,\u201d indicating that ceremonial activity could be both solemn and raucous. In the center of the image, a communal meal has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-621","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/621\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}