HIST 2055 Chapter : Culture Of Native Americans In North America
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Also growing squash, potatoes: supplement diets by hunting, fishing, women do agricultural work, controlled fires, burning trees down to clear the land. Then after a year come through and plant corn, squash by sticking stick in ground and seeding it. The women would harvest it: native americans more or less new stone age people- have no iron tools, they understood overtime soil wore out- fish as fertilizer, use different crops. Had boundaries that were marked- famous boundary was large totem pole found by french expolorers bear heads on it . Allied with english: these groups were fighting eachother before the euros arrived, hardly any conflict without allies on both sides- cowboys and. Starts with ambush, pick an enemy, go for that person: na would own land collectively-not exclusive to one person- another cultural misunderstanding with euros, na tribes set up without elected leaders.
