A 1,400-Year-Old Native American Canal in AlabamaOctober 09, 2022 In the beachside resort town of Gulf Shores, Alabama, locals had often referred to an odd feature in the landscape as “Indian ditch.” As far back as the 1820s, a handful of antiquarians and United States Army engineers...
Exchange among Native Americans and Europeans before 1800 Strategies and Interactions1. Introduction North American aboriginals are not often included among those who had capitalisteconomies.1 Most were hunter-gatherers, moving across the landscape in keeping with theseasonal availability of game, wild ...
Native Americans, also known as American Indians and Indigenous Americans, are the indigenous peoples of the United States. By the time European adventurers arrived in the 15th century A.D., scholars estimate that more than 50 million Native Americans we
They were not yet familiar with theserious diseases that would later take many lives, asEuropeans brought smallpox against which NativeAmerican populations lacked resistance.Although there was often cooperation betweentribes regarding farming and trade, other tribes werecontinuously at war with each other...
EUnlike Native American women,European women outside of major urban centers had almost no influence on political affairs even though they had an equally important role in their village economies. FFor Europeans,trade was primarily an economic matter with limited social functions,but for Native Ameri...
But even with the best of stones, it would (15) be as keen as a steel ax. Soon (16) the Europeans settled in North America, the stone-and-wood tomahawk was replaced by steel hatchets. These were manufactured in Europe for the settlers, (17) for trade with the Native Americans. ...
Explains that imperial Europeans fought over land they could not control while Native polities secured advantages of their own. Examples of Native agency include the Osages (west of the Mississippi), the Sioux (the Dakotas), and the Creeks (who navigated the Caribbean to trade with Cubans). ...
1), but many of the foods spread among the regions due to well-organized trade routes that were facilitated in part by a common hand sign language used by many tribes [20]. Of the staple foods in North America known as the three sisters [21] only squash was of North American origin....
This course provides an in-depth look at selected Native American cultures, their interaction with EuroAmericans, and intertribal relations in North America. The evolution of United States Indian policy, as well as key shifts in Native American strategies for survival form the chronological frameworks...
The most important writers and works to emerge in this remarkable period of scholarly creativity included the following: 4 Curriculum Module: White–Native American Contact in Early American History Book Sources: • Neal Salisbury, Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New ...