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28 09, 2017

Early Cheyenne history – Native Americans

By |2019-08-22T23:49:48-07:00September 28th, 2017|North America|Comments Off on Early Cheyenne history – Native Americans

Cheyenne history: For a long time, Cheyenne people lived in Minnesota, along rivers like this one. Algonquin and Cheyenne Cheyenne people are related to the Algonquin people. From the Paleo-Indian period onward Cheyenne people [...]

10 09, 2017

Central and South American religion

By |2019-03-08T21:30:13-08:00September 10th, 2017|Central America, Religion, South America|Comments Off on Central and South American religion

Maya Corn King on a plate Polytheism in the Americas The people who lived in South and Central America before 1500 were polytheistic - they believed in many different gods. Because they [...]

9 09, 2017

Maize Mountain – A Mayan story about corn

By |2019-11-23T08:16:34-08:00September 9th, 2017|Central America, Literature|Comments Off on Maize Mountain – A Mayan story about corn

A bolt of lightning in the sky, like the one that split open Maize Mountain Where did this story come from? Maya people liked to tell a story about how people [...]

9 09, 2017

Who were the Valdivia people? South American history

By |2018-11-09T08:22:30-08:00September 9th, 2017|History, South America|Comments Off on Who were the Valdivia people? South American history

Valdivian carving, ca. 3500-2000 BC The first people in Ecuador People probably first reached Ecuador by boat, about 13,000 BC. They were coming down the Pacific Coast from North America. These people settled [...]

9 09, 2017

Who were the Guarani? South American history

By |2019-07-26T21:14:43-07:00September 9th, 2017|South America|Comments Off on Who were the Guarani? South American history

Guarani people performing a dance in the 1800s The Tupi move south When the first Tupi people expanded their territory from Central America to reach the coast of Brazil about 900 BC, some [...]

9 09, 2017

Who were the Chavin? South American history

By |2019-03-20T21:43:54-07:00September 9th, 2017|South America|Comments Off on Who were the Chavin? South American history

Chavin stone carving From Norte Chico to Chavin By around 900 BC, the Norte Chico people of northern Peru developed into the Chavin culture. Like the earlier Norte Chico people, the Chavin people [...]

8 09, 2017

Brazil’s early history – South America

By |2019-02-22T05:09:58-08:00September 8th, 2017|History, South America|Comments Off on Brazil’s early history – South America

Venus of Santarem (Brazil, ca. 1400-1000 BC) When did people get to Brazil? The first people probably arrived on the Atlantic coast of South America about 15,000 BC. Probably a second wave [...]

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