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11 08, 2017

American food history – tacos to… tacos!

By |2018-04-24T09:45:59-07:00August 11th, 2017|Food, North America|Comments Off on American food history – tacos to… tacos!

People eating in Virginia, about 1550 AD (from the British Museum) Native American food In 1500 AD, most of the people living in North America, like the Pueblo, the Cherokee, the Iroquois, and the Mississippians, [...]

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

Early Sioux history – Native Americans

By |2018-04-07T17:05:40-07:00August 10th, 2017|History, Native American|Comments Off on Early Sioux history – Native Americans

Mound on Lake Marion, Santee River (thanks to Wikipedia) About 800 AD, ancestors of the Sioux people probably lived in the south-eastern part of North America, around where South Carolina is [...]

9 08, 2017

Hopewell history – Native Americans

By |2019-08-19T22:01:16-07:00August 9th, 2017|History, Native American|Comments Off on Hopewell history – Native Americans

Hopewell Mound in Ohio When was the Hopewell? About 200 BC, people - including the Adena people - formed a culture called the Hopewell culture. (It's named after a farm where archaeologists [...]

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