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Topic 1 food
Topic 2 art
Topic 3 language
Topic 4 government
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The "New Ideas About Human Migration From Asia To Americas". ScienceDaily. October 29,
sources I 2007. Retrieved March 12, 2011.
used:Intro … people migrated from Eurasia across Beringia, a land bridge that connected
Siberia to present-day Alaska during the Ice Age, and then spread southward
throughout the Americas and possibly going as far south as the Antarctic Peninsula.
This migration may have begun as early as 30,000 years ago.
Topic 1 Ong, Yu; Yabut, Ryan (2006), Native American Food (Project for Anthropology 85A course),
University of California Irvine, retrieved July 2011
once helped the early settlers survive: potatoes, beans, corn, peanuts, pumpkins,
tomatoes, squash, peppers, nuts, melons, and sunflower seeds.
Topic 2 Bruce E. Johansen (2006). The Native Peoples of North America. Rutgers University Press.
The traditional and contemporary music of Native Americans have become integrated
in many other cultures and musical styles. Indian artwork such as paintings, beadwork,
totem poles, turquoise jewelry, and silversmithing, all remain beautiful and unmatched
in this society.
Topic 3 Siebens, J & T Julian. Native North American Languages Spoken at Home in the United
States and Puerto Rico: 2006–2010. United States Census Bureau. December 2011
sign language: Today, hand signals are used to communicate with the deaf and dumb.
A similar system was originated to facilitate trade between Native Americans and early
trappers/traders. Although the hand signals in use today are different, the concept
behind them is the same.
English language: Many of the words used in our everyday language originated with
Native Americans. Examples are barbecue, caribou, chipmunk, woodchuck, hammock,
toboggan, skunk, mahogany, hurricane, and moccasin.
Topic 4 Willard W. Beatty, "The Federal Government and the Education of Indians and Eskimos,"
Journal of Negro Education," (July 1938) 7:267-72
Benjamin Franklin said that the idea of the federal government, in which certain powers
are given to a central government and all other powers are reserved for the states, was
borrowed from the system of government used by the Iroquoian League of Nations.