• The great civilizations of ancient southern Mexico and Central America - or Mesoamerica - where names such as Olmec, Maya, Zapotec, Mixtec, Toltec, Tarascan and Aztec are written into a 3500-year history, left distinct fingerprints on the cultures of the Indians of the deserts of the southwestern U. S. and northern Mexico. (juliarauchfrei.at)
  • They joined up with the Native Indians, forming Afro-Indian polities, particularly in Brazil, the Caribbean, Florida and Central America. (humanjourney.us)
  • Corn and beans had been tamed, refined, and moved from Central America to the harsher climates of the northeast Atlantic coast. (josephy.org)
  • In 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus , Charles Mann describes "maize milpas" in Central America in which a dozen plants are grouped in a small field. (josephy.org)
  • Europeans begin hunting of Indians. (odmaturuj.cz)
  • When the Europeans arrived in the American continent, the Maya civilization was in decline. (giuntitvp.it)
  • Greg H. asks: Diseases from Europe wiped out most of the Indians, so why didn't the Europeans also get wiped out by diseases from America? (todayifoundout.com)
  • So why didn't 19 out of 20 Europeans die from Native American diseases? (todayifoundout.com)
  • Second, Europeans lived in more densely populated areas than Native Americans. (todayifoundout.com)
  • All of these things resulted in Europeans being regularly exposed to many more pathogens than Native Americans were. (todayifoundout.com)
  • The Europeans' immune systems simply developed to ward off the worst of some of the nastier diseases that incapacitated entire Native American populations. (todayifoundout.com)
  • European hegemony was facilitated, unintentionally, by the spread of diseases, brought by Europeans, to which Indians had no immunity. (henrygeorge.org)
  • Before Europeans arrived in North American, Native Americans may have numbered as many as 10 million. (americancowboychronicles.com)
  • There were an estimated 18-20 million Native Americans living in the United States when Europeans first arrived. (americancowboychronicles.com)
  • The other important new food for the Europeans was maize, which grows well in the wet lowlands and in the highlands of tropical America, plus beans, pumpkins, and potatoes. (newworldexploration.com)
  • Clearly the Europeans in America missed their familiar foods and soon brought their favorite crops with them. (newworldexploration.com)
  • Unlike Europeans and Native Americans, who died of imported diseases such as malaria and yellow fever, Africans were more resistant, as these parasites had always plagued their native continent. (humanjourney.us)
  • Crosby, who taught history at Washington State and then at the University of Texas, said that he got "tired of muttering on about Washington and Jefferson," and when he really looked at American history, he "kept running into smallpox," a disease that arrived with the Europeans and killed more indigenous Americans than did guns. (josephy.org)
  • American Indians before the Europeans were not all hunter-gatherers, and most who hunted and gathered also farmed. (josephy.org)
  • The principal foods continue to be corn, potatoes and other tubers. (wikipedia.org)
  • They practised sedentary village farming that was based on few products: corn, tomatoes and potatoes. (giuntitvp.it)
  • The entire society was founded on rural communities where self-sufficient farmers grew corn and potatoes and bred llamas and alpacas. (giuntitvp.it)
  • 1. The food plants developed by Native agronomists, such as corn and the potato, now feed the world. (childrensmusic.org)
  • I don't remember anyone asking or explaining how Squanto met the Puritains, and how the Indians got corn and squash and beans. (josephy.org)
  • Hariot, one of the shrewdest of them, discovered the seductive proper-ties of tobacco, the succulence of Indian corn, and the nutritive quality of potatoes. (historion.net)
  • One of the earliest images of Indian North America which many of us learned as third or fourth graders mimicking the first Thanksgiving is of an Indian named Squanto hunched over a hole in the ground in which he is placing a fish in preparation for planting corn, beans, and squash. (josephy.org)
  • Jack Weatherford, in Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World , says that North Americans continued to plant corn in hills until the 1930s. (josephy.org)
  • They took sweet potato and maize to China, which fed a growing population there. (humanjourney.us)
  • The Americas are huge, and the food gifts to the rest of the world are immense-think beans, squash, maize, sweet potato and more, which, in the decades after Columbus, changed the faces (and tastes) of Europe, Africa, and Asia. (josephy.org)
  • Those who remained, and the few who returned, are known by various names, including the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina, The Over the Hill Cherokee Indians of Tennessee, Cherokee Indians of Georgia and the Cherokee Indians of South Carolina. (knowitall.org)
  • Today, there are eight federally-recognized Native American tribes in North Carolina, including the Coharie, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Haliwa-Saponi, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, the Meherrin, the Sappony, the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation and the Waccamaw Siouan. (history.com)
  • These mobile hunter-gatherers traveled in small bands, exploiting vegetable, animal, and marine resources into the Beringian tundra at the northwestern edge of North America. (americanyawp.com)
  • The first big transfer of European crops to America began with Columbus's second voyage. (newworldexploration.com)
  • But Indian scholars reject such claims, noting that traditional Indian economies featured a variety of crops as well as gathered fruits and vegetables, irrigation projects, storage of surpluses, and sharing arrangements across wide areas so as to provide insurance for all in case of scarcities. (activehistory.ca)
  • M2 American Indian Cultures When Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador, he met a few, poor natives, but the continent that would be named America was inhabited by 80 million people. (giuntitvp.it)
  • To understand something of what was here before Columbus, and is still here in the surviving Native peoples of the Americas and in their cultures, we need to look to the roots. (childrensmusic.org)
  • Indigenous people in the United State were first referred to as Indians because Columbus believed he had reached East Indies when he touched the shores of North America. (americancowboychronicles.com)
  • The Arawaks were the first natives seen by Columbus, upon the occasion of his discovery of the continent of South America, in the summer of 1498. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • Peoples and languages had moved, filled and transformed two continents long before Columbus "discovered" them. (josephy.org)
  • We are here today, not because of natives or Vikings, who also disd practiced conquest and slavery, but because of Christopher Columbus. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • Then there was no human -residents in AMERICA before COLUMBUS? (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • when the Native Americans, English, French, and colonists, fought for control of the Great Lakes and its waterways. (andiamoaurora.com)
  • Spanish and Portuguese colonists also interbred with the indigenes, often intermarrying with the local ruling class, resulting in the mixed population we find now, a very different pattern from that that of Anglo-North America, and one which has produced a rich mix of Afro-Indian belief systems, some far removed from European ones. (humanjourney.us)
  • Native Americans attacked settlements, while colonists enslaved indigenous people, seized their lands and took advantage of them in trading negotiations. (history.com)
  • Skirmishes between colonists and indigenous people eventually led to the Tuscarora War , which began in 1711 when the Tuscarora people attacked colonial settlements in North Carolina, attempting to drive out colonists backed by the Yamasee tribe. (history.com)
  • Starting in the early 1700s, the Cherokee people in North Carolina were forced to cede large portions of their land to American colonists. (history.com)
  • Goins is the president of the Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois, and United Tribes of South Carolina, a non-profit organization dedicated to Native American cultural issues. (knowitall.org)
  • The Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois & United Tribes of South Carolina (Cherokee Indian Tribe of South Carolina) has enrolled members throughout the state. (knowitall.org)
  • Native American tribes have long been skeptical of attempts to collect their DNA. (juliarauchfrei.at)
  • In 1998, there were 554 federally recognized tribes in the United States, according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. (americancowboychronicles.com)
  • Land held by the United States for the useand benefit of American Indian tribes. (americancowboychronicles.com)
  • However, hostilities among native tribes and settlers looking for more land led the Ojibwa and Winnebago tribes to join with the British in the War of 1812. (teachersfirst.com)
  • The tribes who inhabit the wilderness between the Amazon and the seacoast settlements at the north, upon the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic, have been classified as belonging to the same family with the aboriginal inhabitants of Brazil. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • Extensive trade networks had moved obsidian, abalone shells, and gold as well as agricultural products across the continent and its hundreds of tribes and civilizations. (josephy.org)
  • Many of the foods enjoyed throughout the world today are indigenous to the Americas, South America in particular. (knowitall.org)
  • Studying artifacts, bones, and genetic signatures, these scholars have pieced together a narrative that claims that the Americas were once a "new world" for Native Americans as well. (americanyawp.com)
  • Yet that song refers to the Native people of the Americas as "Indians," people whose continent is Asia. (childrensmusic.org)
  • In South America the llama, guinea pigs, and ducks had been domesticated, but throughout the Americas wild game was the main source of meat and leather. (newworldexploration.com)
  • But Josephy said that the most destructive thing that they brought was a way of looking at the world, a way that put European religious and cultural values at the top of a historical pyramid-and "heathens" and their values in the newly "discovered" lands of the Americas as primitive, discovered so that they could be destroyed or transformed to make way for advancing Anglo-American civilization. (josephy.org)
  • In fact, as Josephy demonstrated in the award winning Indian Heritage of America (in 1968, a few years ahead of Crosby's Columbian Exchange ), the Americas were every bit as rich and complex with civilizations as was the old world. (josephy.org)
  • But the Americas were not Sioux Indians riding horses across the plains-the stereotype that most of us grew up with and that is still promoted around the world. (josephy.org)
  • In his book Renewing America's Food Traditions, Gary and his colleagues identify 1080 foods at risk in North America, including 267 species, subspecies and populations of fish, game and other wild foods. (biohabitats.com)
  • In very general terms, how would you describe the overall state of place- based food species, subspecies and populations in North America? (biohabitats.com)
  • We've lost hundreds of historical populations stocks and unique genetic strains of wild edible and medicinal plants in North America. (biohabitats.com)
  • When we talk about foods at risk in North America, we're talking about 267 subspecies, stocks, or unique populations. (biohabitats.com)
  • Other incoming populations included Chinese, Black American soldiers (from the British/American war of 1812) who were given land rights as a reward for supporting the British. (the1caribbean.com)
  • Livestock was less important to them than to peoples on other continents. (odmaturuj.cz)
  • Music is not separated from everyday life among Native peoples. (childrensmusic.org)
  • Ilex guayusa (Aquifoliaceae): Amazon and Andean Native Plant 30 What are the 3 main groups of indigenous peoples? (juliarauchfrei.at)
  • From the mixture of German, native cuisine, and the Chiloé Archipelago in the southern Andes comes valdiviano and curanto. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Inca Empire extended across western South America down the Pacific coast and along the Andes. (giuntitvp.it)
  • and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s Disuniting of America (1992). (ratical.org)
  • The so-called "Indian chant" you can still hear sung in 1992 on television as baseball and football fans cheer on the "Braves" or the "Redskins" as they swing their arms in a "tomahawk chop" is another example. (childrensmusic.org)
  • Early South American restaurants in the United States included Caso do Brazil in Reseda, California, which opened in 1955, and the Machu Picchu nightclub in Miami, Florida, which opened in 1963, serving Peruvian dishes such as ceviche and anticuchos. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tenochtitl n Yucat n Tikal The aboriginal American Indian cultures, or pre-Columbian civilizations, evolved in Mesoamerica and in the Andean region prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th century. (giuntitvp.it)
  • Ilex guayusa Loes (Aquifoliaceae) is native to the Andean Amazon (Colombia, Ecuador, and Perù) commonly known as guayusa. (juliarauchfrei.at)
  • For the anonymization of Andean native has been exposed as a choice, now in the hands - in the eyes - of the audience. (juliarauchfrei.at)
  • GFG's Acción Andina Initiative is a Latin-American led, forest landscape restoration initiative aiming to protect and restore one million hectares of high Andean, native forest ecosystems in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela over the next 25 years. (juliarauchfrei.at)
  • Some say the extraordinary productivity and nutrition of the Andean potato fed the great human expansion of the last three centuries. (humanjourney.us)
  • Finally, the Andean potato was adopted in temperate climes across the world. (humanjourney.us)
  • Native American cuisine is not homogenous - it is as diverse as the many different tribal groups that still call South Carolina home. (knowitall.org)
  • The state of South Carolina recently acknowledged this significance by giving these Indian people their deserved status as a "State Recognized" tribal organization. (knowitall.org)
  • The dubious interpretation of the Chestatee River's name is a common problem in mountains of Georgia and North Carolina. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • One of the original 13 colonies, North Carolina was the first state to instruct its delegates to vote for independence from the British crown during the Continental Congress . (history.com)
  • Following the Revolutionary War , North Carolina developed an extensive slave plantation system and became a major exporter of cotton and tobacco, although the enslaved population remained relatively small compared to other southern states. (history.com)
  • In 1861, North Carolina became one of 11 states to secede from the United States, beginning the American Civil War . (history.com)
  • Despite no major battles being fought in the state, North Carolina sent more recruits to fight for the Confederacy than any other rebel state. (history.com)
  • People began living in the area now known as North Carolina at least 12,000 years ago . (history.com)
  • Scores of Native Americans were displaced from North Carolina or killed by smallpox and other diseases brought by the settlers. (history.com)
  • In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act , and five years later about 17,000 Cherokee were forcibly moved from North Carolina to present-day Oklahoma on what became known as the Trail of Tears . (history.com)
  • After several hundred Cherokee refused to leave North Carolina, the American government established a reservation for the Eastern Band of Cherokee. (history.com)
  • Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto landed in North Carolina in the 1540s but left without staking a claim. (history.com)
  • In 1584, explorers traveling for the English adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh arrived at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, and the first English settlement was established there in 1585. (history.com)
  • A northern colony was established in the county of Albemarle in 1664, followed by a southern colony with its own government at Charles Town (now Charlestown, South Carolina ) in 1670, and North Carolina and South Carolina were officially divided in 1712. (history.com)
  • In the 17th century, North Carolina residents became angered by the navigation acts, which imposed taxes on colonial goods. (history.com)
  • To retaliate against the taxes and abuse of power flaunted by the customs collector and deputy governor, Thomas Miller, a group of about 40 North Carolina rebels imprisoned Miller and seized control of the local government in 1677. (history.com)
  • The commercial gold mines did use some slaves and hire Cherokee Indians as laborers. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • It was permanently settled by the Spanish in 1592 and then followed a very Caribbean model of history, exploitation and decimation of the native population, skirmishes with the British an influx of French planters and slaves but uniquely also mixed race landowners. (the1caribbean.com)
  • Twenty thousand years ago, ice sheets, some a mile thick, extended across North America as far south as modern-day Illinois. (americanyawp.com)
  • Between twelve and twenty thousand years ago, Native ancestors crossed the ice, waters, and exposed lands between the continents of Asia and America. (americanyawp.com)
  • Native Americans, on the other hand, were largely hunters and gatherers, and even in some domestication cases, it's thought exposure was limited. (todayifoundout.com)
  • Not knowing either Cherokee or Itsate Creek, or that the Itsate Creeks occupied the entire region at one time, early Caucasian settlers passed down inaccurate interpretations of Native American words. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • With, as the European settlers saw it, a whole free continent open to them, private ownership of land seemed to harm no one, and to make perfect sense. (henrygeorge.org)
  • I could eat turkey, stuffing, and sweet potatoes three times a day for the rest of my life and never tire of it. (counter-currents.com)
  • In fact they had little choice since the English had much earlier dispossessed them of the better lands on their island, leaving them to attempt to survive in the marginal areas where the potato was about the most reliable crop they could grow. (activehistory.ca)
  • To acquire a title to the fertile and fruitful lands and fabled riches of the newly discovered continent, became the aspiration of the great maritime states of Europe, which had shared between them the honors of its discovery. (historion.net)
  • Atlantic Ocean Gulf of Messico R iv e r Cajamarca Cuzco Pacific Ocean Aztec civilization Maya civilization Inca civilization Ancient American civilizations. (giuntitvp.it)
  • Today, many people prefer to call themselves American Indians to avoid stereotypes associated with "Indian. (americancowboychronicles.com)
  • Certain Irish stereotypes create the notion that the potato growers created their own fate because they focused on one crop and an unreliable one at that. (activehistory.ca)
  • Then compare it to a modern map from an atlas and list the countries where the American Indian cultures evolved. (giuntitvp.it)
  • Americans need to know that, and also to know that, though centuries have passed, Native people and Native cultures still remain. (childrensmusic.org)
  • Rest of Indians must completely moved into the reservation, which are chosen by white people. (odmaturuj.cz)
  • Groups of people and animals moved around a lot in Europe and had interactions particularly through war and trade, resulting in the spread of disease across continents-and, eventually, some level of immunity for the survivors. (todayifoundout.com)
  • Even the beat it is sung to is, at best, a ridiculous parody of Native music, a music which has been so misunderstood that most people, when asked about "American Indian music," think of the stereotyped tom-tom drum beat heard in a John Wayne Western whenever the danger of Indian attack is imminent. (childrensmusic.org)
  • 2. Ideas of true democracy and the equality of women, which originated with such Native people as the Iroquois, directly influenced the framers of the Constitution and the founders of the modern Women's Movement. (childrensmusic.org)
  • Yet that is what most people think of when they think of "Indian music," despite the incredible inaccuracy of those movies. (childrensmusic.org)
  • Yacon is gaining attention around the world for its numerous health benefits, but it has long been consumed by the indigenous people of South America. (juliarauchfrei.at)
  • There are millions of people with Indian ancestry, but that does not make them American Indians in the eyes of the federal government. (americancowboychronicles.com)
  • According to the 2010 Census, 5.2 million people in the United States are identified as American Indian and Alaska Native, either alone or in combination with one or more other races, comprising 1.7% percent of the total population. (americancowboychronicles.com)
  • The French were interested in trade with native people. (teachersfirst.com)
  • Again, it was a decision not to feed people rather than a lack of food that resulted in Indian deaths. (activehistory.ca)
  • Similarly, though we tend to think of the "Irish famine" of 1846, which resulted in at least a million deaths and two million Irish fleeing their country, in terms of the failure of the potato crop, Ireland produced enough food that year to easily satisfy the food requirements of all of the Irish people. (activehistory.ca)
  • How much of the food that people were eating in North America 200 years ago is still here today? (biohabitats.com)
  • The twentieth century brought with it a number of riots and strikes as Black, East Indian and people of mixed race challenged the hegemony of the White planters. (the1caribbean.com)
  • That same immunity protected them from diseases that Native Americans might have given them, or at least made it so the new diseases that they encountered were not as deadly. (todayifoundout.com)
  • More than 400 different languages were spoken in North America in 1492 and each language carried its own musical tradition, nothing at all like the boom boom boom boom, boom boom boom boom monotony of a Hollywood Western's Indians. (childrensmusic.org)
  • It is estimated that about 200 languages are spoken by American Indians today. (americancowboychronicles.com)
  • As early as the 1950s, Latin American cuisine have been transported to the Southeast coast, where Sydney is. (wikipedia.org)
  • Now there is a slight selection of Latin American restaurants that has spread across the country. (wikipedia.org)
  • South American cuisine at restaurants Society portal Food portal South America portal Latin American cuisine Brazilian cuisine Argentine cuisine Chilean cuisine Peruvian cuisine Native American cuisine of South America Chifa There appears to only be circumstantial evidence, for which there are a few references. (wikipedia.org)
  • Native Americans built settled communities and followed seasonal migration patterns, maintained peace through alliances and warred with their neighbors, and developed self-sufficient economies and maintained vast trade networks. (americanyawp.com)
  • Even though the vast majority of Native American live in the West today, the city with the largest American Indian population is New York City. (americancowboychronicles.com)
  • All lived in the area known as the Great Plains of North America, a vast area that stretches from the Mississippi River to the west of the continent. (americancowboychronicles.com)
  • It was the tremendous productivity and nutritiousness of the potato that helped overcome the Malthusian trap that faced the growing population as industrialisation began, for potatoes can produce four times more food per acre than wheat and a potato has almost all the protein, carbohydrate, minerals and vitamins that a body needs. (humanjourney.us)
  • The big feast with Indians providing most of the food? (josephy.org)
  • The actual numbers of historically utilized food products at risk in North America change through time, but we've recorded hundreds of plants that still have uses among Native American communities and other traditional communities in North America that are of conservation concern to biologists and resource managers. (biohabitats.com)
  • Most of the long time African American and Native American residents of the county trace their heritage to ancestors who worked in the gold extraction industry. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • Savory smells of roasting ham, potatoes, and bread permeate The French Castle and the Bake House kitchens. (andiamoaurora.com)
  • The idyllic partnership of 17th Century European Pilgrims and New England Indians sharing a celebratory meal appears to be less than 120 years-old. (deando.com)
  • Bordewich, a roving editor for the Readers' Digest , provides a short take on the influence issue on page 298 of this combination travel narrative and polemic: "Indians are now commonly taught to believe that American democracy is based on the Iroquois Confederation, a curious notion that relies on a handful of rhetorical remarks by Benjamin Franklin. (ratical.org)
  • most who remained migrated north to join the Iroquois Confederation . (history.com)
  • This case was overturned a year later in Worcester v. Georgia, which held that the Cherokee were indeed a sovereign nation - but president Andrew Jackson refused to enforce the ruling, instead decreeing that the Cherokee would be moved to a new "Indian Territory" in Oklahoma, whence began the infamous "Trail of Tears" migration in which many thousand Cherokee died. (henrygeorge.org)
  • Early US Supreme Court decisions, such as Johnson v. M'Intosh and Cherokee Nation v. Georgia **, essentially held that because the Indians held their land in common, having no legal tradition of alienability of land, the legal doctrine of "Discovery" took precedence. (henrygeorge.org)
  • Another consequence of the great die-off resulting from the new diseases was that much of the native environment was changed. (humanjourney.us)
  • DNA evidence suggests that these ancestors paused-for perhaps 15,000 years-in the expansive region between Asia and America. (americanyawp.com)
  • The idea of the American Thanksgiving feast is a fairly recent fiction. (deando.com)
  • In an editorial column, Fedr observes that the previous week New York Gov. George Pataki signed legislation mandating that the Irish potato famine be taught in New York Public Schools. (ratical.org)
  • Squanto was really Tisquantum, and the scene which we all saw was about indigenous American agriculture. (josephy.org)
  • The tropical region of the continent is divided into two distinct areas, the coastal areas of the Atlantic and the Pacific and the Amazon area, each with its distinct cuisines. (wikipedia.org)
  • The mainland is located between Mexico on the south and Canada on the north and between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. (britannica.com)
  • Of course there were long intervals between these letters and their replies, because they had to cross the North American continent, and then the Atlantic by sailing vessel. (mirrorservice.org)
  • South American cuisine has many influences, due to the ethnic fusion of South America. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Amazon basin of South America provides a plethora of fresh fish and tropical fruits. (wikipedia.org)
  • Shredded beef is common throughout South America and Latin America and is served with a variety of foods. (wikipedia.org)
  • South American foods are increasingly imported into the United States, especially Brazilian foods such as guarana, guava paste, and cachaça (an ingredient in the caipirinha cocktail). (wikipedia.org)
  • Native Americans have lived contentedly in North and South America. (odmaturuj.cz)
  • Look at the map above of North and South America. (giuntitvp.it)
  • Minnesota is bordered by Canada on the north and by Iowa on the south. (teachersfirst.com)
  • On the west are North and South Dakota. (teachersfirst.com)
  • Following the American Revolution, the areas formerly under British rule became under the authority of the United States, and in 1803, the US acquired the portions of Minnesota south and west of the Mississippi River as part of the Louisiana Purchase. (teachersfirst.com)
  • Within a decade another two famines, one in South India's Tamil region and one in North India, accounted for another 20 million deaths. (activehistory.ca)
  • The United States is dominated by a range of old mountains and plateaus-the Appalachians-that runs north and south on the east side of the North American continent and young ranges of lofty mountains-the Rockies, Cascades, and Sierra Nevada-that run north and south in the western quarter of the continent. (britannica.com)
  • Native Americans cultivated distinct art forms and spiritual values. (americanyawp.com)
  • Old Fort Niagara played a role in the key conflicts on the continent, including the French and Indian War (or Seven Years War), the American Revolution, and the War of 1812. (andiamoaurora.com)
  • It's believed that one Native American disease did slip on to the European ships and sailed onward to Europe doing some major damage in the process. (todayifoundout.com)
  • However, European notions of private land ownership, based on Roman law, took precedence over Native traditions. (henrygeorge.org)
  • D. Religion: Because of the unique haplogroups for Native Americans who preceded European contact, Y-line is the only way to positively confirm that a specific line is or is not of Native American descent. (juliarauchfrei.at)
  • When European explorers first arrived in tropical America they encountered an assemblage of flora and fauna that was mostly unknown to them. (newworldexploration.com)
  • It began one of the most consequential developments in all of human history and the first chapter in the long American yawp. (americanyawp.com)
  • ¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 1 American history begins with the first Americans. (americanyawp.com)
  • To test penicillin's effectiveness in treating syphilis and other STDs, researchers led by Dr. John Charles Cutler from the United States (funded by the Public Health Services, the Pan American Health Sanitary Bureau, and the National Institutes of Health) headed to Guatemala in 1946 and found prostitutes who had syphilis, getting them to then give it to unsuspecting Guatemalan soldiers, mental health patients, and prisoners. (todayifoundout.com)
  • According to a Lenape tradition, the earth was made when Sky Woman fell into a watery world and, with the help of muskrat and beaver, landed safely on a turtle's back, thus creating Turtle Island, or North America. (americanyawp.com)
  • Old Fort Niagara housed soldiers throughout the American Civil War, World War I, and Word War II. (andiamoaurora.com)
  • And it was only after the First World War that a version of such a Puritan-Indian partnership took hold in elementary schools across the American landscape. (deando.com)
  • Lumpkin County was north of the old Cotton Line, which marked the northern limit of cotton species grown before the Civil War. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • Remains of cotton cloth and cotton bolls were found, making Native Americans the makers of the oldest cotton found to date. (americancowboychronicles.com)
  • This article is about the life of a valued member of the American Anthropologist Association, Herman Karl Haeberlin, who died on February 12, 1918 after a long illness which had sapped his strength for over a year. (publicanthropology.org)
  • As long ago as 1562, America became a refuge of the oppressed for conscience's sake. (historion.net)