The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are diverse; some
Indigenous peoples were historically
hunter-gatherers, while others traditionally practice
agriculture and
aquaculture. In some regions, Indigenous peoples created pre-contact monumental architecture, large-scale organized cities,
city-states,
chiefdoms, states, kingdoms, republics, confederacies and empires. These societies had varying degrees of knowledge of engineering, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, writing, physics, medicine, planting and irrigation, geology, mining, metallurgy, sculpture and gold smithing. (Full article...)
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Image 1The tomato (jitomate, in central Mexico) was later cultivated by the pre-Hispanic civilizations of Mexico. (from Indigenous peoples of the Americas)
Image 13The domesticated plant species that were cultivated by the Indigenous peoples have influenced the crops that were produced globally. (from Indigenous peoples of the Americas)
Image 14A map showing the origin of the first wave of humans into the
Americas, including the Ancestral Northern Eurasian, which represent a distinct Paleolithic Siberian population, and the Northeast Asians, which are an East Asian-related group. The admixture happened somewhere in Northeast
Siberia. (from Indigenous peoples of the Americas)
Image 29Indigenous peoples textile art in 1995 by Julia Pingushat, including
Inuk,
Arviat, Nunavut, Canada, wool, and embroidery floss (from Indigenous peoples of the Americas)
Sequoyah (ᏍᏏᏉᏯ Ssiquoya, as he signed his name, or ᏎᏉᏯ Se-quo-ya, as his name is often spelled today in
Cherokee) (c. 1770–1840), named in English George Gist or George Guess, was a
Cherokeesilversmith. In 1821 he completed his independent creation of a
Cherokee syllabary, making
reading and
writing in Cherokee possible. This was the only time in
recorded history that a member of a pre-literate people independently created an effective
writing system. After seeing its worth, the people of the
Cherokee Nation rapidly began to use his syllabary and officially adopted it in 1825. Their
literacy rate quickly surpassed that of surrounding
European-American settlers.
... that in traditional Plains hide painting,
Native American women painted abstract, geometric designs while men painted representational, narrative images?
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