Pre-Columbian/Native American History and Archaeology

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A Hessian chaplain during the Revolutionary War makes some observations on the sachems of the Creek nation:



faroutliers.blogspot.com/2016/12/hessian-impressions-of-creek-sachems.html

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De Soto's expedition had far-reaching effects on the Native populations in the American Southeast:


www.nativevillage.org/Archives/2009%20Archives/NOV%20News/Real%20Razorbacks%20First%20Came%20to%20State%20in%201540%20with%20Hernando%20de%20Soto.htm

[thatericn]

Jan 3, 2017 9:16:06 GMT -5 deuce said:

De Soto's expedition had far-reaching effects on the Native populations in the American Southeast:


www.nativevillage.org/Archives/2009%20Archives/NOV%20News/Real%20Razorbacks%20First%20Came%20to%20State%20in%201540%20with%20Hernando%20de%20Soto.htm

Besides the environmental effect of adding an invasive species, I never considered the risk of all the diseases we cook pork so thoroughly to avoid.  I wonder how many people figured out that "rare" pork chops was not the way to go...  "When Worlds Collide," eh?

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Tommy Prince, a Canadian Ojibway, was an absolute badass in WWII:

athabaskang07.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/tommy-prince-canadian-hero/

A more irreverent take:

www.badassoftheweek.com/prince.html

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The mysterious Si-Te-Cah of Paiute legend:


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si-Te-Cah

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Douglas Preston and the Lost City of the Monkey God:



www.cbsnews.com/news/curse-of-the-lost-city-of-the-monkey-god/

[themirrorthief]

Dec 15, 2016 3:52:27 GMT -5 ironhand said:

The lost medieval city of Cahokia, near St. Louis, MO.
arstechnica.com/features/2016/12/theres-a-1000-year-old-lost-city-beneath-the-st-louis-suburbs/

Ive been there, that place is freaking awesome....I think they have artifacts that came from ancient mexican cultures like the AZtec

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Jarbidge Wilderness in Nevada is named after a Shoshone legend:



www.atlasobscura.com/places/jarbidge-wilderness

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"It would be a strange thing if six nations of ignorant savages should be capable of forming a scheme for such an union [Iroquois Confederation] and be able to execute it in such a manner as that it has subsisted ages and appears indissoluble; and yet that a like union should be impracticable for ten or a dozen English colonies, to whom it is more necessary and must be more advantageous and who cannot be supposed to want an equal understanding of their interests."



-- Benjamin Franklin



The Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee, also known as the Iroquois Confederacy:

ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/

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Klamath myth encodes the creation of Crater Lake almost 8000yrs ago:


logarithmichistory.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/history-became-legend-legend-became-myth-crater-lake/

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Humans in Argentina 14,000yrs ago; before the Clovis culture arose:


phys.org/news/2016-09-humans-occupied-southern-cone-years.html



Humans in the Yukon at least 24,000yrs ago:


phys.org/news/2017-01-humans-north-america-years-earlier.html

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The Owl was a Seneca storyteller...and a badass:


frontierpartisans.com/9665/badass-owl/

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A great resource from the American Indian Center of Oklahoma:

www.theamericanindiancenter.org/Websites/aiccm/files/Content/2758750/NIE_2011_Ok_Indian_Guide_Final.pdf

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Jan 3, 2017 9:51:48 GMT -5 thatericn said:

Jan 3, 2017 9:16:06 GMT -5 deuce said:

De Soto's expedition had far-reaching effects on the Native populations in the American Southeast:


www.nativevillage.org/Archives/2009%20Archives/NOV%20News/Real%20Razorbacks%20First%20Came%20to%20State%20in%201540%20with%20Hernando%20de%20Soto.htm

Besides the environmental effect of adding an invasive species, I never considered the risk of all the diseases we cook pork so thoroughly to avoid.  I wonder how many people figured out that "rare" pork chops was not the way to go...  "When Worlds Collide," eh?

Exactly. I've read more than once that Native Americans appear to have stronger genetic defenses against native parasites than microbes, which would make sense, since they never went all-in on domestication. Domesticated animals are a major source/vector of communicable diseases. Smallpox came from cowpox, for instance.

Swine-borne diseases seem to have decimated the deer population, which the Injuns definitely depended on along with their quite-advanced agriculture.

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Four hundred years of Native American gun culture:

frontierpartisans.com/9906/thundersticks-american-gun-culture/



Geronimo was a Winchester man.