USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Most villages had a few dozen to a few hundred residents. The Indians drove sharpened poles into the ground to make a high fence, or palisade, around the village to protect it from attack by other people or by large animals.

Detailed explanation-2: -Native American tribes traditionally have used all parts of an animal. Bones and deer antlers were made into weapons, spoons and knife handles. Clothing and shoes were made from the hair and skins of animals. Ceremonial objects are covered with feathers, bone breast plates and jewelry made of animal teeth.

Detailed explanation-3: -As a challenge to their enemies, some Native Americans shaved their heads. The scalp was sometimes offered as a ritual sacrifice or preserved and carried by women in a triumphal scalp dance, later to be retained as a pendant by the warrior, used as tribal medicine, or discarded.

Detailed explanation-4: -American Indians and Alaska Natives are protected by federal civil rights laws. The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice enforces federal laws barring discrimination based on a person’s race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or religion.

Detailed explanation-5: -As defined by the United States Census, “Native Americans” are Indigenous tribes that are originally from the contiguous United States, along with Alaska Natives. Indigenous peoples of the United States who are not listed as American Indian or Alaska Native include Native Hawaiians, Samoan Americans, and Chamorros.