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Native American Art Thunderbird

The thunderbird has been one of the most are lightning snakes which the
dominant icons in Native American art and thunderbird uses as weapons. Lightning is
legends. In fact, the concept of the created when the thunderbird throws these
thunderbird has been so popular that it lighting snakes or when he blinks his
has been used in the non-Native world to eyes that glow like fire. Sometimes these
name a classic automobile, liquor, a lightning snakes are depicted in Native
1960's children's adventure television American art as having wolf or dog-like
show (and subsequent recent movie), a US heads with serpent tongues. They are
Air Force squadron and is referenced in occasionally referred to as the
pop music (remember the word 't-bird' in thunderbird's dogs. Native American art
1950's rock and roll?). The thunderbird portrays the thunderbird with a huge
is one of the few cross-cultural curving beak and prominent ears or horns.
characters in Native American mythology The thunderbird is large and strong
since it is found in legends of Pacific enough to hunt its favorite food which is
Northwest, Plains, and Northeastern the killer whale. The lightning snakes of
tribes. the thunderbird are used during hunts out
The Native Indians of the Pacific at sea for the killer whale. After
Northwest Coast always lived along the capture, the thunderbird carries the
shores and never ventured inland to the killer whale back to the mountain to eat.
mountains. Legend has it that the According to legend, the thunderbird and
thunderbird, a mighty God in the form of killer whale once battled so hard that
a giant, supernatural bird lives in the entire trees were uprooted. This was the
mountains. The Quileute tribe of explanation why there are treeless
Washington state considered a cave on prairie regions near the Pacific
Mount Olympus as the home of the Northwest Coast mountains. The
thunderbird while the Coast Salish thunderbird and killer whale are often
believed it is located on the Black Tusk depicted together in Northwest Native
peak in British Columbia. It is thought American art. A large example is at one
that the thunderbird never wants anyone by reknowned Northwest Native American
to come near its home. If Native hunters art carver Richard Hunt at one of the
get too close, the thunderbird will smell Northwest Native American art exhibits at
them and make a thunder sound by flapping the Vancouver International Airport.
its wings. It would also roll ice out of The Squamish Nation in British Columbia,
its cave and down the mountain with Canada has a thunderbird as their symbol.
chunks breaking up into many smaller Their thunderbird is portrayed as one of
pieces. the special messengers of the Creator.
Some tribes such as the Kwakwaka'wakw The Squamish thunderbird is a symbol for
believe that their people once made a strength as well as change with the three
deal with the thunderbird for its help tail feathers representing the past,
during a food crisis and in return, the present and future. In the talons of this
tribe agreed to honor the thunderbird for thunderbird is a face of a lizard which
all time by making its image prominent in represents spiritual protection for the
their Northwest Native American art. This people of the Squamish Nation.
is why West Coast art totem poles are For many people, Natives and non-Natives
often carved with thunderbirds with alike, the thunderbird has become a
outstretched wings at the top. symbol of power, strength and nobility.
The wingspan of the thunderbird was Even the classic automobile of the same
described to be twice as long as a Native name was reintroduced as a contemporary
Indian war canoe. Underneath its wings version.




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