FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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Native Americans would fight to protect their homelands
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Native Americans were hunters, gatherers, and farmers
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Native Americans used their homelands to meet their needs
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Native Americans cleared forests using fire
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Detailed explanation-1: -From 1774 until about 1832, treaties between individual sovereign American Indian nations and the United States were negotiated to establish borders and prescribe conditions of behavior between the parties.
Detailed explanation-2: -Common themes in Native American literature are worship of many gods and and a reverence for nature.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Jefferson believed Native American peoples to be a noble race who were “in body and mind equal to the whiteman” and were endowed with an innate moral sense and a marked capacity for reason. Nevertheless, he believed that Native Americans were culturally and technologically inferior.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hearing and understanding American Indian history from Indian perspectives provides an important point of view to the discussion of history and cultures in the Americas. Indian perspectives expand the social, political, and economic dialogue. Indigenous people played a significant role in the history of the Americas.