ANTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Indian Removal Act, Cherokee Language, Basket Weaving
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Killed much of the vegetation and foraging type foods. The black drink--tea, stimulant, mummification of dried out corpses with animal figurines as protective spirits burial rituals. The last of this group were the cahokia people. Beginning of them--less rainy, intro to new maize (corn, northern flint) lg cobs/kernels. Trans mississippian people (mound builders) had extensive belief system because of the. Largest city north of mexico, pop 25,000 people. 22 million cubic feet, largest of all the mounds. Last of the mound people when spanish came. French-northern territory (canada) british - middle (atlantic and inward) Crops of southeast-corn, beans, squash, pumpkin, tobacco, turkey, fish, shellfish, Algonkians-- powhatan tribes of virginia chesapeake bay area. 1539-killing, raping, stealing to get what they wanted (spanish), slaves, diseases(smallpox, measles, syphilis) de sotos army. Cultural--innovation from environmental changes and sharing of ideas (diffusion) Within 30 years they have gone under radical change. Sequoia came of up with cherokee language, gave them a written language.
