FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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Southeast and Eastern Woodlands
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Northwest Coast and Southwest
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Plains and Eastern Woodlands
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Plains and Southeast
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Detailed explanation-1: -Women tended the crops, made mats for housing, and reared the children. Men prepared the fields, made stone tools and canoes, and hunted. Other activities-basket-making, woodcarving, pottery-making, and fishing-were carried out by both sexes.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Eastern Woodlands is a large region that stretches from the northeastern coast of present-day United States and the Maritimes to west of the Great Lakes. It extends southwest to present-day Illinois and east to coastal North Carolina.
Detailed explanation-3: -Like many Native American Eastern Woodland tribes, the women controlled property and goods, and the children would enter the clan of their mother. Women garnered much respect and played a more spiritual and political role than other Native American tribes.
Detailed explanation-4: -The women were in charge in the homes. They often owned the home and everything in it. Women were well respected in the tribes for their hard work and providing food from farming. Men and women had different roles, but generally had equal rights.