AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mississippian Culture, Bsc Young Boys, Encomienda
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Mississippian culture: mississippians known as mound builders. Created mounds of dirt for religious purposes like holy sites and burying the dead: mounds in ohio, obsidian was found from yellowstone, seashells from elsewhere. Indicates trading that happened: tribal groups spoke differently depending on where they"re from, tribes in plains lived nomadic. Tribes in eastern had large homes, cultivated crops: every tribal group had some kind of religion, usually monotheistic. They want god to provide for the people: indigenous people looked to things in nature for evidence of the creator of their lives, indigenous people did not see land as something that could be individually owned. Europeans who thought they owned it: gender difference from europeans. Men hunted, provided food, and go to war for tribe. Women responsible for home, cultivating crops, seen as the home owner. Europeans saw cultivating crops as a male job: marriage could be separated with divorce, often initiated by women.
