Food: Basics Include: Four Kinds of Grain, Beans, Pumpkins, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Maple Sugar, Pineapples, Strawberries, Sweet Potatoes, Sunflowers, Wild Rice, Vanilla Beans, Cocoa or Chocolate, Clams, Cranberries, Pumpkins, Coffee, Various Nuts, and many types of Peppers and more. Today, 60% of the world’s food is of American origin!
Corn far above other food gift is a special spirit in many indigenous cultures. Its origins and use are often dictated by ritual, ceremony and tradition. The grain that is widely used today was still unknown until modern times. Although corn had been grown by humans in Hopewellian cultures for about 2000 years, it was not a major product of agricultural production even during the Middle Woodland period. A type of corn that grows abundantly well in colder climates was not yet developed until about 1000 AD. corncob products; and which motivated the hierarchical divisions in Mississippian cultures, it was no more than about 4
Corn is used in foods such as cereal, snacks, popcorn, and to make the sweetener, High Fructose Syrup, which is used in soda. pop, dressing, ketchup, baked goods, and a hundred other things. It is also used to make materials, soap, face cream, explosives, glue and bio-fuels. It is the only number three behind wheat and rice for export today.
Susceptible tomatoes were introduced to Euro/Americans early on, however, even in the 1830s in the Midwest, settlers were not convinced of the taste and health of the fruit, still believing it to be poisonous.
Animals: Native American crafts domesticated turkeys, llamas, guinea pigs and dogs
Agricultural adaptations and products: Earth prepared soil – from the inactivation and char, which are left over from carbon, which are activated into the ground to grow food (South America more than other areas)
• Canals, irrigation systems, water control of rivers and ponds, to control wildfires, to bring in herds, embankments, embankments.
• Fertilizing with organic material fish and produce
• Cotton, tobacco
• Garbage was used to 1800 B.C. The Olmec and later Maya would collect the juice for ball games and many other uses. They also came up with the process of using rubber in waterproofing such things as hats, shoes, baskets and bags.
Medicine: Countless herbs and plants are used medicinally – aspirin is derived from white willow bark a>, sphagnum moss used in hay and wound care. Healers were considered to know the properties and dosages of correct medicinal plants. The North American Indians used botanical oral contraceptives and the antispasmodic drugs commonly used were dangerous unless used in the correct dosages. The sophistication of medical science suggests that they are perceptive observers of the effects of herbs used for diseases
• Sunscreen – herbal mixtures containing sunflower oil or agave were used and can still be found today.
• Insect repellent -Bear fat or wild onions, Golden plant with bear fat
• Teeth Cleaning – Gold wires are rubbed on the teeth; They are rubbed with the horse’s teeth, and they use willow branches to nte brush
• Classic leaves or roots – fevers, diarrhea, mouth and throat problems
The roots of the cattail- • are cured by burning, purgative discharges
• Ginger-ear
Syringes • – the hollow mouth of a bird was used for tubes and needles. Instead of a dyer they used a small animal on the top of the bladder. He squeezed the medicine through the mouth and pushed it into the patient’s bladder. A syringe was also filled with herbal liquids and used to clean wounds.
Architecture: Today’s western architecture includes some of the adobe dwellings used by the Pueblo people centuries ago.
Camp Tents: Wigwams are almost all modern tent construction
Sauna: Sweat Lodge
Food preservation: Smoking, Drying, Salting. Cool back (Inca 1,000 AD)
Beef Jerky is the modern equivalent of bison or smoked game produced hundreds of years ago.
Transportation: Toboggan, Canoe, Snow Shoes, Kayak, Travois dogs and horses; Baby runners (cradleboards) Snow shoes are in places where the snow is deep and long lasting. Baby carriers and hammocks are still in use today, made from newer materials.
Tracts and roads: There were many bison trails, and from the first use they have now become Natives they are modern roads and highways. Some of the state roads and county roads closely follow the old Indian trails, and many of the modern towns and cities in and around them are the sites of Native American villages. Example: The Bullskin Trail is now Ohio Route 68 and the towns of Xenia, Yellow Springs, Old Town, Springfield, Dayton, and Liberty All the western sites are not far from the road and are home to certain American Christmas villages.
Economy: Thieves, Crops, Gold, Maple, Sugar – In the year 1500, Native labor produced gold and other precious metals, Spain at the height of its power. The work of countless Native Americans produced films that contributed immensely to the castles of England, France, the Netherlands, and Russia.
Clothes and accessories: Clothing such as skirts, boots, wooden armbands, shoes, tumplines, belts, belts, pelisses, shawls, tunics, kilts, rugs, quilts, and tunics were made in thousands. years from plants, feathers, and bark.
Plants such as Dogbane, Nettle, Hemp, Goosefoot, Cattails and Maygrass are used in the production of the above mentioned items. The plants, often laid down after the first frost, were provided with hair fibers from which braids or cords were born. Ropes or fibers have been woven into textiles or woven into fabrics from the beginning up to 10,000 years ago. Several sites in North America have published rare examples of actual ancient texts. Other documents were printed for the use of textiles in the form of pottery paper. These can be analyzed in the lab for structure and construction, sometimes for use in culture.
Bullrushes, Dogwood, Cattails, Basswood, Birch, Cedar, Elm, and Tulip Poplar bark were widely used for the roofs of the house, making the exterior and interior area, and Leather jackets, skirts, pants, boots, jackets, robis
This process involves the use of physical processes to first skin the meat and remove the hair. Then the natives soaked it in water, and prepared it with brains for the bath. The brains of the animal were crushed and worked into leather until the opposite side was permanent. Then the process involved taking out the hide and working until it softened. Then he often smoked, then fell into whatever was needed to be made and decorated with braids, bones, copper, horns, beads, finally with European glass beads< /a>.
Sports: La Crosse, Snowsnake (Early hockey) Schools today often have the form of La Crosse as a major playing activity.
Math: Mexico was the first to use any mathematics. Scholars believe that the Asians traveled across the Pacific Ocean where they learned nothing of the Mayans.
Government: The Iroquois Treaty, served as a model for the beginnings of government in United States. A confederacy was formed of five separate nations, the Iroquois or Haudenosaune, and they held a great council with ambassadors among themselves. Some functions of the council were left to the great council, while many were left relatively to individual nations. This system was observed by American leaders and chosen as a formula for building the government of the United States.
Bibliography
Landon, Rocky, and Mac Donald, David, Ancient American Thought, Amazing Inventions and Innovations, Annick Press, Canada
Teachers, Native American Contributions, from pineapples and pumpkins, to a model of government and zero in mathematics, some of the many additions to the Homeland American made to world cultures
Weatherford, Jack, National Roots, How Indians Made America Rich, Crown Publishers
