When it comes to what our ancestor-Americans ate, we mostly hear about a certain period of time: after the white people arrived. And even that's largely wrong. According to the Smithsonian, Native Americans and colonial Europeans weren't exactly sharing mashed potatoes and pie: it was more along the lines of venison, porridge, and various types of wild- and water-fowl. But hey, turkey was probably there, so at least we got that much right...
When it comes to what our ancestor-Americans ate, we mostly hear about a certain period of time: after the white people arrived. And even that's largely wrong. According to the Smithsonian, Native Americans and colonial Europeans weren't exactly sharing mashed potatoes and pie: it was more along the lines of venison, porridge, and various types of wild- and water-fowl. But hey, turkey was probably there, so at least we got that much right...
At its best, Thanksgiving is a reminder of how often people take life for granted. Families congregate to clog their arteries with entirely too much food and reflect on how lucky they are to do so. At...
One of the saddest — and most shameful — events in American history was the near-genocide of indigenous people across the nation. The Wild West era between 1865 and 1895 was particularly painful. White...
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are made up of hundreds of tribes, and there were even more before European colonizers made their way to the continents. Contrary to popular belief, the vast majority of these tribes didn't share a single culture, language, or even belief system.
The native peoples of North America have suffered a lot over the last several centuries. Forced out of their own lands by European colonists and treated extremely poorly (to put it mildly), Native Americans have still managed to keep their ways of life preserved through folklore passed down through the generations...
