Why has America never recognised the?

Question

Native Indians as part of their history .

Answer 1

Here's a bit from the kids school.

U.S. History Timline: Before 1492

  

        

   40,000 b.c.

- 11,000 b.c.      First people (called Paleo-Indians) cross from Siberia to Alaska and begin to move into North America.  

  

  14,000 b.c.

- 11,000 b.c.     Paleo-Indians use stone points attached to spears to hunt big mammoths in northern parts of North America.

  

   11,000 b.c.     Big mammoths disappear and Paleo-Indians begin to gather plants for food.

  

  8000 b.c.

- 1000 b.c.     North American Indians begin using stone to grind food and to hunt bison and smaller animals

  

   1000 b.c.

- a.d. 500     Woodland Indians, who lived east of the Mississippi River, bury people who have died under large burial mounds (which can still be seen today).

  

  After a.d.

500     Anasazi peoples in the Southwestern United States live in homes on cliffs, called cliff dwellings. Anasazi pottery and dishes are well known for their beautiful patterns.

  

   After a.d.

700     Mississippian Indian people in Southeastern United States develop farms and build burial mounds.

  

  700-1492     Many different Indian cultures develop throughout North America  

Here's another bit i got from Wikipedia about a really good book i read last year. I think as this generation gets older we are begining to understand more and more about our native heritage. I have worked with several different tribes out west on the wild fires and find it fasinating.

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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Author Charles C. Mann

Genre(s) non-fiction

Publisher Knopf

Publication date 2005

Pages 480

ISBN 978-1400040063

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is a 2005 non-fiction book by American author Charles C. Mann about the pre-Columbian Americas. The book argues that there is evidence accumulated over the last several decades suggesting that human populations in the Western Hemisphere - that is, the indigenous peoples of the Americas - were larger in number, had arrived earlier, were more sophisticated culturally, and controlled and shaped the natural landscape to a greater extent than had been previously thought.

Contents [hide]

1 Book summary

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Part One: Numbers From Nowhere

1.3 Part Two: Very Old Bones

1.4 Part Three: Landscape With Figures

2 See also

3 Further resources



[edit] Book summary



An indicative map of the prominent political entities extant in the Western Hemisphere c. 1491 C.E., as presented in 1491.The past 140 years have seen scientific revolutions in many fields, including demography, climatology, epidemiology, economics, botany, genetics, image analysis, palynology, molecular biology, and soil science. As new evidence has accumulated, long-standing views about the pre-Columbian world have been challenged and reexamined. Although there is no consensus, and Mann acknowledges controversies, Mann asserts that the general trend among scientists is to acknowledge that

(a) the population levels were probably higher than traditionally believed among scientists and closer to the number estimated by "high counters"; (b) humans probably arrived in the Americas earlier than thought over the course of multiple waves of migration to the New World (not solely by the Bering land bridge over a relatively short period of time);

The level of cultural advancement and settlement range was higher and broader than previously imagined; and

The New World was largely not a wilderness but an environment controlled by humans (mostly with fire).

These three main foci (origins/population, culture, environment) form the basis for three parts of the book.

[edit] Introduction

Mann was inspired to write this book because he was taught in high school that "Indians came across the Bering Strait about 13,000 years ago, that they had so little impact on their environment that even after millennia of habitation the continents remain mostly wilderness." He examines what he terms "Holmberg's mistake", named for the anthropologist Allan R. Holmberg, who lived among the Siriono in the 1940s and came to the conclusion that they were the most "culturally backward peoples" in the world. Mann writes that Holmberg's theory was in fact a mistake, because smallpox and influenza devastated Siriono villages during the 1920s, and the Siriono were the "persecuted survivors of a recently shattered culture."

[edit] Part One: Numbers From Nowhere

Mann first tackles New England in the 1600s, and the idea that European technologies were superior to Indian technologies. Guns were a prime example, as they were seen by Indians as nothing more than "noisemakers," and they were difficult to aim. Famous colonist John Smith even noted that "the awful truth...it could not shoot as far as an arrow could fly." In

Answer 2

we do. i  think u should stop going on the computer and start cracking the book, instead of drinking tea, eating krumpets, and going on the computer saying"ello"

Answer 3

the first things i learned in social studies

was that the native americans where here first

that's what they teach us in school