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| living-being, life, breath, spirit. Essentially the spirit that energizes life. |
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| “inanimate” things possess a life-force. Everything is alive, etc |
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| Dwellings of Miwok Indians in California. Around SF Bay Area. A-frame, undifferentiated, organic architecture |
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| Of Pueblo Indians in SW US. Meaning “world below”--periodic dwelling place of spirit beings (kachina) |
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| design of dwelling does not flow from individual will/thought but from ancestors or deities |
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| building itself as a literal image of larger world (think micro/macro cosim) |
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| Of Pueblos-- Spirit of life force (close to animism). What animates the rain, intensity of sun, presence of certain elements |
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| earlier name for Ger and Yurt |
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| Means "seed," dwellings in Mali, Western Africa |
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| Columbia, brazil dwelling. Very gendered |
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| "white people" in Lakota (Black Elk's language) |
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| "Great Spirit, God" in Lakota (Black Elk's lang.) |
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| "Teton Sioux", the western division of the Sioux |
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| Creator God of Dogon mythology |
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| The fox, son of Dogan god Amma, became symbol of disorder -- the night, the uncultivated, etc |
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| Son of Dogan god Amma, symbol for ordered world -- sky, day, fertility, the cultivated. Twin of Yurugu. |
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| communal club houses, used for ceremonial life (of Inuits) |
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| tent dwellings used by Eskimos in summer. Poles made of antler usually and covered with seal skin or hide |
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| Later named Pine Ridge Agency, h0me of the Ogalala, aka "Place Where Everything is Disputed" of Black Elk |
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| West (where rain comes from) |
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| Great white wind direction |
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| Summer and growth direction |
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| of Great Vision, from: east, west, north, south, sky, and earth |
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| Goes from north to south, the road of good. Where the plains Indians followed ideally. |
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| Goes from west to east, the bad road, fearful road, of troubles and war. |
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| pithouses of Jomon Pd in Japan |
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