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12 08, 2017

Blackfoot get horses – American history

By |2018-04-08T11:21:53-07:00August 12th, 2017|History, Native American|Comments Off on Blackfoot get horses – American history

Blackfoot man with horse Throughout the 1500s and 1600s AD, the Blackfoot continued to live in the same way they had lived before 1500. But the lives of Blackfoot people changed a lot [...]

10 08, 2017

Navajo houses – American architecture

By |2017-08-10T15:25:24-07:00August 10th, 2017|Architecture, Native American, North America|Comments Off on Navajo houses – American architecture

Can you see the sheepskins? How about the television? (1973) When people met the first Spanish explorers in the 1500s AD, most Navajo people were living in hogans. By trading with the [...]

10 08, 2017

Later Cherokee towns – Native Americans

By |2017-08-10T14:19:22-07:00August 10th, 2017|Architecture, Native American|Comments Off on Later Cherokee towns – Native Americans

A Cherokee house in the 1800s In the late 1600s AD, Cherokee people were still building their towns about the way they had built them before the Europeans arrived. We have a good [...]

10 08, 2017

Cherokee warfare – Native Americans

By |2018-04-07T17:05:46-07:00August 10th, 2017|Native American, War|Comments Off on Cherokee warfare – Native Americans

Cherokee arrowhead In the Late Woodland and Mississippian period, about 500 AD to 1500 AD, Cherokee men fought a lot of wars with their neighbors, especially against the Creek and the Chocktaw men. When Cherokee men were [...]

10 08, 2017

Early Native American science

By |2020-01-11T07:38:48-08:00August 10th, 2017|Native American, Science|Comments Off on Early Native American science

Native American science: Sunflowers growing in a field Domesticating sunflowers Probably the greatest contribution of Native American people to science before 1500 AD was the domestication of several plants, especially sunflowers in eastern North America. These plants [...]

10 08, 2017

Three Sisters – Native American religion

By |2018-04-24T10:38:43-07:00August 10th, 2017|Native American, Religion|Comments Off on Three Sisters – Native American religion

  Corn, beans, and squash growing together Different people told different versions of this story. Here is a Cherokee version: Once upon a time there were three sisters. The first sister was [...]

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