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Native Americans used this trade route where water could easily be found enroute to the coast.
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* 1832 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U. S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
Native Americans used red alder bark ( Alnus rubra ) to treat poison oak, insect bites, and skin irritations.
The inner bark of the alder, as well as red osier dogwood, or chokecherry, was also used by Native Americans in their smoking mixtures, known as kinnikinnick, to improve the taste of the bearberry leaf.
Whigs and moralists denounced his aggressive enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, which resulted in the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans to Indian Territory ( now Oklahoma ).
* 1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
Early Native Americans utilized a number of cooking methods in early American Cuisine, that have been blended with early European cooking methods to form the basis of American Cuisine.
The cuisine of the American South has been influenced by the many diverse inhabitants of the region, including Americans of European descent, Native Americans and African Americans.
He turned the settlers into foragers and successful traders with the Native Americans, who taught the English how to plant corn and other crops.
Smith led expeditions to explore the regions surrounding Jamestown, and it was during one of these that the chief of the Powhatan Native Americans captured Smith.
Some friendly Native Americans ( including Squanto ) helped the Pilgrims survive through the first winter.
Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the land that is today known as the United States and played its first music.
* Native Americans in the United States
* 1832 – Black Hawk War: Around three-hundred United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.
At the beginning of the war, Pike was appointed as Confederate envoy to the Native Americans.
The Mongols also used adhesives to make their short bows, and the Native Americans of the eastern United States used a mixture of spruce gum and fat as adhesives to fashion waterproof seams in their birchbark canoes.
African Americans and Native Americans with this allele have a reduced risk of developing alcoholism.
Native Americans however, have a significantly higher rate of alcoholism than average ; it is unclear why this is the case.
Other risk factors such as cultural environmental effects e. g. trauma have been proposed to explain the higher rates of alcoholism among Native Americans compared to alcoholism levels in caucasians.
In 1840, Walker, a Protestant missionary, recorded stories of giants among the Native Americans living in Spokane, Washington.
Native Americans, on the other hand, did not fight in lines, utilizing instead guerrilla tactics.
Historical evidence also points to the use of non-returning boomerangs by the ancient Egyptians, Native Americans of California and Arizona, and inhabitants of southern India for killing birds and rabbits.
Native Americans customarily grew them along with corn and squash ( the so-called Three Sisters ), with the tall cornstalks acting as support for the beans.
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Native copper, however, was found worldwide, along with silver, gold and platinum, which were also used to make tools, jewelry, and other objects since Neolithic times.
Native speakers of a given language usually perceive one phoneme in their language as a single distinctive sound in that language and are " both unaware of and even shocked by " the allophone variations used to pronounce single phonemes.
Native American culture is rich in myths and legends that were used to explain natural phenomena.
That said, some people are challenging this, using arguments similar to those used by peyotist religious sects, such as the Native American Church.
* Buffalo jump, a cliff used historically by Native American people to kill American bison
* Buffalo pound, an enclosure used historically by Native American people to catch and kill American bison
Then in 1948, another initiative banned the use of seine nets ( devices already used by Native Americans, and refined by later settlers ) altogether.
Coyotes have never been domesticated ( not the same thing as tamed ) with the possible exception of the Hare Indian dogs, which may have been domesticated coyotes or dog-coyote hybrids, used by the Hare Native American tribe of northern Canada for hunting.
Native Americans used cranberries in a variety of foods, especially for pemmican, wound medicine and dye.
Native languages are used, in conjunction with Coptic, during services outside of Egypt.
The funds for the Charity School for Native Americans that preceded Dartmouth College were raised primarily by the efforts of a Native American named Samson Occom, and at least some of those funds were used to help found the College.
Robert Lowie later said that Sapir's fascination with indigenous languages stemmed from the seminar with Boas in which Boas used examples from Native American languages to disprove all of Sapir's common-sense assumptions about the basic nature of Language.
The U. S. Census Bureau used FIPS place codes database to identify legal and statistical entities for county subdivisions, places, and American Indian areas, Alaska Native areas, or Hawaiian home lands when they needed to present census data for these areas.
Native gel electrophoresis is an electrophoretic separation method typically used in proteomics and metallomics.
Native Americans had known of the tar seeps in southern California for thousands of years, and used the tar to waterproof their canoes.
Native Americans, who traditionally used homeschooling and apprenticeship, vigorously resisted compulsory education in the United States .< ref >
Native speakers of Hausa, the Hausa people are mostly to be found in Niger and in the north of Nigeria, but the language is used as a trade language across a much larger swathe of West Africa ( Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo, Côte d ' Ivoire etc.
These actions were “ justified by a dominant belief among British colonial officials that land occupied by Native people was not being used efficiently and productively .”
* Canyon Diablo – Iron meteorite used by prehistoric Native Americans.
" Medicine man " or " medicine woman " are English terms used to describe traditional healers and spiritual leaders among Native American and other indigenous or aboriginal peoples.
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