Mississippi Native Americans
Native Americans fished along coasts and waterways. In the Northwest, they caught salmon in traps and nets. Some Northwest groups hunted whales. They paddled out to sea in large, carved-out logs called dugout canoes, and speared whales with harpoons. 美洲原住民沿着海岸和水道捕鱼。在西北部,...
In 1912, Plecker became the first registrar of the state's Bureau of Vital Statistics, serving until 1946. An avowed white supremacist and fervent advocate of eugenics, Plecker believed that the state's Native Americans had been "mongrelized" with its African American population. A law passed b...
AthousandyearsagotheMississippians,adiversegroupofNativeAmericanswholivedintheareawhichistodayknownasthesouth-easternUnitedStates,tookasmallvillageontheMississippiRiverandturneditintooneoftheworld'sfirstgreaturbancentres.Cahokia,asithasbeencalledbyarchaeologists(考古学家),becameaslargeasLondonwasinthe11thcentury.Ahe...
The pre-Columbian culture of the Mississippi woodlands has received surprisingly little attention from historians. Studying this culture, which was in many respects highly advanced, opens an entirely new perspective on what we are used to thinking of as'American'history. This essay by a distinguished...
The native Americans, the people we call the “Indians”,had been in America for many thousands of years beforeColumbus arrived in 1492. Columbus thought he had arrived inIndia, so he called the native people “Indians".The Indians were kind to the early settlers. They were notafraid of ...
Native Americans are the Indigenous people of the United States who lived there well before European explorers and settlers arrived. Indigenous peoples lived in every part of the land that is now the United States, includingAlaska(Inuit) andHawaii(kanaka maoli). They lived in groups that we now...
When they smoke this pipe with a stranger, it meant friendship and peace.Now most native Americans live on the empty lands. West of the Mississippi River, because they do not want their old tradition to die. Native Americans hold festivals called "pow-wows" in different parts of the United...
In 1766 he was sent by Major Robert Rogers on a journey of exploration westward from Rogers’ base at Fort Michilimackinac (now Mackinac, Mich.). Carver traveled west through the Great Lakes region to the Mississippi River and then up that river to the country of the Sioux Indians. Alone...
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