What We Learned: America Before Colonization (P5) by Bishop, Kyle A https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni en-us 2021-09-23 17:54:40 UTC 2021-09-24 21:03:20 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f469-1f4bb.png Even so, among European settlers and their descendants, says Kevin Gover, the museum's director, “the great American narrative was that the Americas were a wilderness occupied by a few hunter-gatherers” who didn’t create anything worthy of serious attention. In reality, Gover says, “The Americas were built on a foundation of Native civilizations that had already conquered the wilderness.” https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766552138 2021-09-24 20:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766552138 People are endlessly creative in solving problems,” says Gover. “Native Americans were no different and no less skilled at solving problems.” https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766554732 2021-09-24 20:41:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766554732 https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766555301 Many mound cities/complexes across the Southern US. Featured advanced architecture, and were attributed to a mysterious people before Native Americans, as a justification for colonization/ removal, depicting Native Americans as primitive and unadaptable.]]> 2021-09-24 20:42:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766555301 European contact—some estimates suggest up to 90 percent of the population died—took a heavy toll on the Native body of knowledge. “We’ll never know all the knowledge that died along with them,” he says. “We’ll only have a shadow of what they knew.” https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766555564 2021-09-24 20:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766555564 “I kind of pieced the recipes together from 16th-century documents,” he says. He traveled to collect materials in Chiapas, an area of Mexico that had an abundant supply of the right kinds of rubber trees and vines. When Tarkanian described the Native process to a family he met on a farm, he says, the adults told him, “Oh, yeah, we used to do that when we were kids, to make balls to play with.” https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766556768 2021-09-24 20:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766556768 We want kids first of all to have fun. We want them thinking on their own about why things work the way things work,” Gover says.“And we want them to realize,” he says, “that Indians aren’t just people who used to be here, that they made contributions that last, and that they are still here.” https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766558356 2021-09-24 20:45:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766558356 it was more peaceful and it felt like everyone was doing their on thing and their might have been issues that were solved with colonization but there were many more problems caused https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766558648 2021-09-24 20:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766558648 https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766558877 Many Europeans thought native American tribes were made up of a few hunters and gatherers and didn't invent anything important. in reality the Americas were built on a foundation of Native civilizations that had already conquered the wilderness, and used many of their inventions such as the process of making leather. ]]> 2021-09-24 20:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766558877 https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766559759 "...we decided that we can make our own kinds of maps. Their maps are unlike any others. Not limited by lines or topography, they depict cultural landscapes and living memories. The Zuni maps represent the world without defined boundaries. Many people are familiar with geometric maps with streets and roads and then when the see the Zuni hand-painted maps they realize there's a different way of looking at the world."]]> 2021-09-24 20:46:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766559759 Natives had their own maps and names for star systems and constellations, and had writings about seasonal changes and longitude/latitude. https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766560964 2021-09-24 20:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766560964 https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766561433 "We know Cahokia’s population was diverse, with people moving to this city from across the midcontinent, likely speaking different dialects and bringing with them some of their old ways of life."]]> 2021-09-24 20:48:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766561433 They used rock art to mark locations. It is history. It is a memory of the people being here. https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766561489 2021-09-24 20:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766561489 https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766563472 Mayan civilization had written language, as well as libraries full of books. Evidence of these was destroyed by Spanish colonizers. ]]> 2021-09-24 20:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766563472 https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766565556 Cahokia was built rapidly, with thousands of people coming together to participate in its construction. As far as archaeologists know, there was no forced labor used to build these mounds; instead, people came together for big feasts and gatherings that celebrated the construction of the mounds.


]]> 2021-09-24 20:51:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766565556 https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766567998 Cahokia was built rapidly, with thousands of people coming together to participate in its construction.  As far as archaeologists know, there was no forced labor used to build these mounds; instead, people came together for big feasts and gatherings that celebrated the construction of the mounds.]]> 2021-09-24 20:53:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766567998 kwakwaka'wakw https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766568543 They were much more advanced than we give them credit for. They had trade routes, currency, surgery, and elaborate fishing mechanisms. There is evidence they did brain surgery without anesthesia.]]> 2021-09-24 20:53:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766568543 https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766568655 nicely done guys!]]> 2021-09-24 20:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766568655 Natives had better farming techniques and ways that were healthier for the environment. https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766578003 2021-09-24 21:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kabishop4/x21m7uo8dj8pegni/wish/1766578003