Of course, the exact makeup of the Native American diet depended to a large extent on the indigenous plants and animals in the area where they lived. For instance, saw palmetto berries were a unique common food of the Florida tribes, desert tribes used the fruit and leaves of the prickly...
Some people consider these bees to be pests, since they “disfigure” foliage in their landscapes, but we encourage them, along with all other native bees, by providing nesting habitat and lots of nectar and pollen sources for them. You can, too, by planting a variety of nativeplants to ...
Tribes of the Southwest learned to propagate drought-resistant plants and engineered irrigation systems in order to practice agriculture. A similarly harsh region, the Cold North, required tribes to innovate in order to gather needed resources. Northern tribes, like those in the West, relied on ...
Much of this information is derived from the Plants Database (plants.usda.gov) of the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service: Sign in to download full-size image Figure 1.2. The “bank grape,” Vitis riparia, growing in a forest in upstate New York (...
Tennessee Roots: Lifelong resident. Who Did She Beat?: Kenny Chesney. Notes: Surprisingly, very few "legends" were born and raise and Tennessee. There are some other famous country Tennesseans (including contemporary artists like Kelsea Ballerini), but no one comes close to touching Dolly Parton...
the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers started overflowing, resulting in the "Great Flood of 1916." The exact number of people who died during this deluge is still unknown, but it's estimated that at least a few dozen people lost their lives. Houses, warehouses, and industrial plants along ...
Vitis riparia, a critically important Native American grapevine species, is used globally in rootstock and scion breeding and contributed to the recovery of the French wine industry during the mid-19th century phylloxera epidemic. This species has abioti
The Nazca pottery sequence has been divided into nine phases, progressing from realistic subject matter such as fruits, plants, people, and animals to motifs that included abstract elements as part of the design and geometric iconography. The Nazca, like all Pre-Columbian societies in South America...
The higher emergence rate in a big gap might be due to increased nutrient availability from soil disturbance, decreased competition for light and effects of the mechanical disturbance of the surrounding plants. Gap disturbance also increased the soil temperature of gap areas which is consistent with ...
Indigenous American domesticated a variety of plants and animals, including corn (maize), beans, squash, potatoes and other tubers, turkeys, llamas, and alpacas, as well as a variety of semidomesticated species of nut- and seed-bearing plants. These and other resources were used to support ...