USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Since the colonists set foot in North America, they had systematically and extensively hunted American bison, cutting off the source of food and basic livelihood of the Indians, and causing their death from starvation in large numbers.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Plains Indians who did travel constantly to find food hunted large animals such as bison (buffalo), deer and elk. They also gathered wild fruits, vegetables and grains on the prairie. They lived in tipis, and used horses for hunting, fighting and carrying their goods when they moved.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Mesquite is considered our arbol de vida, our tree of life, because so much of our ancestral survival depended on this one tree, ” says Manuel Davila, the cultural arts program manager for the American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Corn was the most important staple food grown by Native Americans, but corn stalks also provided a pole for beans to climb and the shade from the corn benefited squash that grew under the leaves. The beans, as with all legumes, provided nitrogen for the corn and squash.