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The city of Cahokia was the only pre-Columbian civilization north of the Rio Grande and "large even by European and Mesoamerican standards of the day."

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Indigenous community constructed a lot of advanced infrastructure for the materials they had at hand

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In chaco there are many objects of ritual significance from all over northern America

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90% of indigenous population died after european contact- it took a toll on the native body of knowledge

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when 90% of the indigenous population died after European contact, many of their knowledge died along with them, so their normal practices had to be re-learned, to do it the same way as how it was previously done.

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The way William Bartram wrote Creek and Cherokee histories led to the view that these Native Americans were colonizers, just like Euro-Americans. This served as one more way to justify the removal of Native Americans from their ancestral lands: If Native Americans were early colonizers, too, the logic went, then white Americans had just as much right to the land as indigenous peoples.

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"Paintings are inspired by animals and the sky"

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"Paintings are inspired by animals and the sky"

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I learned about Cahokia and that the Mayans and Aztecs had high literacy rates

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The largest mound at Cahokia was Monks Mound, a four-terraced platform mound about 100 feet high that served as the city’s central point. Atop its summit sat one of the largest rectangular buildings ever constructed at Cahokia; it likely served as a ritual space.

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The Maya were a really sophisticated civilization that came up with the concept of 0

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Early archaeologists tried to credit the mounds/ Buildings they 'found' to the Toltecs, Vikings, Welshmen, Hindus, and many others. Basically anyone but the Native Americans because they didn't Believe they were capable.

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Important foods like corn and potatoes were grown by indigenous groups before the rest of the world

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natives built different types of houses and places to live in an example is the old man house which was at a certain location

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Good quote: "The Americas were built on a foundation of Native civilizations that had already conquered the wilderness."

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Natives invented rubber 3 millenia before someone was credited for the process of vulcanization