Moccasins are an excellent alternative to modern-day footwear. They
are good for the health of your feet by allowing the feet to breath more
naturally. In addition, while wearing moccasins, your posture improves.
Moccasins are the next best thing to bare feet while walking. They
allow the feet to naturally connect with the earth's surface. Moccasins
allow one to feel the ground and offer free movement for a more natural
walk. Our feet muscles need exercise and when encased in supportive
footwear, the muscles are not being used to the same extent. By wearing
moccasins outdoors, one has less impact on the environment. Imagine
wearing shoes with a heavy rubber sole and walking across a lawn versus a
supple leather moccasin sole. Which would have the least impact? Shoes
are heavy compared to moccasins causing the body to work harder than
necessary and denying it its natural grace of form and ease of movement.
All in all, moccasins are better for your feet than clunky shoes!
SOURCES:
Throw away those hiking boots!!!
http://www.wildernessrhythms.com/308
You Walk Wrong
http://nymag.com/health/features/462131
QUOTE of the Day
"Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins."
Native American Proverb
Gene
Sanderson is owner, with his wife Shirley, of Marie Shoes.com. Marie
Shoes.com has been selling quality moccasins, mukluks and slippers
around the world since 2006. www.marieshoes.com
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Moccasin History
Traditional Native American
clothing varied widely from tribe to tribe, but one nearly universal
element was the moccasin, a sturdy slipper-shaped type of shoe, sewn
from tanned leather. The word "moccasin" comes from an Algonquian word
(also spelled mocasin, mocassin, moccassin, mocassions,or mocussin,
depending on the language and transcriber), but that is only because
Algonquians were the first Indians encountered by Europeans--they were
used as footwear from Sonora to Saskatchewan, and though "moccasins" may
be understood and accepted by all of them at this point, most Indian
tribes have their own native word for them.
All American Indian moccasinswere originally made of soft leather stitched together with sinew. Though the basic construction of Native American moccasins was similar
throughout North America, moccasin patterns were subtly different in
nearly every tribe, and Indian people could often tell each other's
tribal affiliation simply from the design of their shoes. (In fact, the
common names of some large nations like the Blackfoot and the Chippewas
refer to their characteristic moccasin styles.) Tribal differences
included not only the cut of the moccasins but also the extensive bead
work, quill work, and painted designs many Indian people lavished on
their shoes. In some tribes hardened rawhide was used for the sole for
added durability, and in others rabbit fur (or, later, sheepskin) was
used to line the leather moccasins for added warmth.
Plains Indian women also wore
moccasin boots sometimes, which were basically just women's
thigh-length leggings sewn to their moccasins for a one-piece look (very
beautiful when fully quilled).
Heavier-duty boots called mukluks were the invention of the Inuit
(Eskimos), who made them of sealskin fur, and reindeer hide; some sub
arctic Indian tribes adapted the mukluk style through trade or other
contact with the Inuit, using caribou or buckskin instead.
Our thanks to the Native Languages of the Americas Organization (w.ww.native-languages.org ) for their kind permission to cite this information
clothing varied widely from tribe to tribe, but one nearly universal
element was the moccasin, a sturdy slipper-shaped type of shoe, sewn
from tanned leather. The word "moccasin" comes from an Algonquian word
(also spelled mocasin, mocassin, moccassin, mocassions,or mocussin,
depending on the language and transcriber), but that is only because
Algonquians were the first Indians encountered by Europeans--they were
used as footwear from Sonora to Saskatchewan, and though "moccasins" may
be understood and accepted by all of them at this point, most Indian
tribes have their own native word for them.
All American Indian moccasinswere originally made of soft leather stitched together with sinew. Though the basic construction of Native American moccasins was similar
throughout North America, moccasin patterns were subtly different in
nearly every tribe, and Indian people could often tell each other's
tribal affiliation simply from the design of their shoes. (In fact, the
common names of some large nations like the Blackfoot and the Chippewas
refer to their characteristic moccasin styles.) Tribal differences
included not only the cut of the moccasins but also the extensive bead
work, quill work, and painted designs many Indian people lavished on
their shoes. In some tribes hardened rawhide was used for the sole for
added durability, and in others rabbit fur (or, later, sheepskin) was
used to line the leather moccasins for added warmth.
Plains Indian women also wore
moccasin boots sometimes, which were basically just women's
thigh-length leggings sewn to their moccasins for a one-piece look (very
beautiful when fully quilled).
Heavier-duty boots called mukluks were the invention of the Inuit
(Eskimos), who made them of sealskin fur, and reindeer hide; some sub
arctic Indian tribes adapted the mukluk style through trade or other
contact with the Inuit, using caribou or buckskin instead.
Our thanks to the Native Languages of the Americas Organization (w.ww.native-languages.org ) for their kind permission to cite this information
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