Distribution of mitochondrial DNA lineages among Native American tribes of Northeastern North America. Hum Biol. 2001; 73(1): 17-55. PMID: 11332644Malhi RS, Schultz BA, Smith DG (2001) Distribution of mi- tochondrial DNA lineages among Native American tribes of Northeastern North America. Hum...
In addition to those tribes that are recognized, hundreds of others have not yet achieved recognition. These unrecognized tribes are organizations of people who claim to be historically, culturally, or genetically related to historic Native American Indian tribes but are not officially recognized as in...
North America is covered in a diverse range of climates, which led to a great diversity amongst the people who lived here. Among American Indians, or Amerindians, cultural practices were often defined by the realities of their environment. Cultures of the Northeast were sedentary, or non-mobile...
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
Brazil got its name from a kind of reddish tree, native to this land, which was sold in Europe. Salvador da Bahia was founded in 1549 and became the capital city of the new Portuguese colony. Portuguese settlers started to produce sugar and the northeast of Brazil became a wealthy corner ...
The roles of men and women in most Native American tribes were the same as now. The men hunted and provided protection for their people. The women prepared the food, made clothing and shelters, and cared for the children. The men used bows and arrows, spears and knives to hunt. They wo...
of tribes, to indicate the original inhabitants of North American before the European colonists arrived. The term "Indian" originated when Christopher Columbus landed in America. Columbus thought that he had arrived in the East Indies on his way to Asia. The indigenous people of North America ...
Canarsee –Formerly one of the leading tribes on Long Island, New York, the tribe once occupied most of what is now Kings County and the shores of Jamaica Bay. At the time of the Dutch settlement of New York, they were apparently paying tribute to the Iroquois. They were also at war ...
Image: Map of Cherokee homelands and other eastern tribes Before being forced to move west to Oklahoma The Iroquoian tribes – the Cherokee, Tuscarora, Meherrin, Coree, and Neuse River – were related linguistically and culturally to the Iroquois tribes to the north. The Algonquian-speaking trib...
Native Americans also featured prominently in the Yankee (Nantucket-based) whaling fleet, often making up half and sometimes all of the crew of whaling ships in the first half of the 1700s. Motifs and Symbols: The Wampanoag and other Northeast tribes had a mostly utilitarian material culture ...