Native Americans cultivated the wide majority of the world’s most essential crops
Native American tribes are known to have had all kinds of diets that reflected their own food systems. Lots of Native American tribes were practicing agriculture, preparing the crops that we eat TODAY.
In 2016, it was considered that over 60 percent of the global food supply was entirely based on crops that sprung in North America. Corn was made by Indigenous farmers in southern Mexico and Guatemala over 10,000 years ago. By the time Europeans arrived in North America, Native Americans were already growing corn for thousands of years. Native Americans also cultivated beans, squash, potatoes, and tomatoes.
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Good one!
This is deeply disturbing. Many of us don’t think to reeducate ourselves. Our history that is taught in school is all lies. I am Iriquois, from the northern NY state into Canada’s Quebec providence. My great great great grandmother was full blooded Iriquois, Seneca. I am proud of that and I respect all the tribes.
My maternal grandmother was a Onondaga Iroquois. I learned a lot of my Indian heritage from my grandfather. I am proud to be part of this history. Thank you for this history lesson.
It was very interesting would enjoy reading more about this as my mother was native American
What’s interesting to me, where did the ‘native’ Americans come from. If we complete a more intense historical search, the ‘native’ American came from Filipino islands which really complicate the ‘American’ claim. When tracing historical facts, we should not stop searching when we get the results we’re looking for. History requires accuracy to the historical beginning. When a complete line of heritage is gone because a ‘wacko’ kills them all, that doesn’t change historical facts!
I would think the term “native” applies to the indigenous people living here when the first Europeans came to these shores.
The truly “native” people going all the way back would all be from Mesopotamia!
Short paragraphs but loaded with precise facts .Very inspiring and informative.
Looking forward to more information .History taught never much of any facts of actual history,facts marred in time.
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