When Columbus landed in the West Indies in the late 1400s, the people living there gave him corn, which he took back and introduced to Europe. Native Americans taught early European settlers in North America how to grow corn.

The settlers learned to cultivate Indian corn from their native neighbors, who were growing large amounts of it. Like the natives, colonial farmers also found that different parts of the plant had a number of useful by-products and purposes. They used its stalk and leaves for livestock feed.

Cherokee culture thrived many hundreds of years before initial European contact in the southeastern area of what is now the United States. One of the “Five civilized tribes” because of assimilation of culture and technology of European-American settlers.

Indians helped early European settlers by teaching them how to grow corn to eat. Indians used a small fish as fertilizer when planting each kernel of corn. They taught the settlers to make corn bread, corn pudding, corn soup, and fried corn cakes. Indians had purposely transformed corn by hybridizing it.

The Wampanoag grew corn, squash, and beans – crops known as the “Three Sisters” that make a potent growing team, especially in poor, sandy soil that doesn’t retain nutrients or water. The three plants work well together to create fertile soil.

The Navajo are known for their woven rugs and blankets. They first learned to weave cotton from the Pueblo peoples. When they started to raise sheep they switched to wool. These blankets were valuable and only the wealthy leaders could afford them.

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thank you

Harry Walters, director of the Hatathli Museum at Navajo Community College in Tsaile, Ariz., agreed, saying: “Throughout our history, the word Navajo has had a negative connotation.

Their language offers five terms referencing various combinations of sex, gender and sexuality: makkunrai (“female women”), oroani (“male men”), calalai (“female men”), calabai (“male women”) and bissu (“transgender priests”). These definitions are not exact, but suffice.

It’s simple: Look at the year of conception and the mother’s age at conception. If both numbers are even or odd it’s a girl. If one number is even and one number is odd, it’s a boy.