ADV 316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Beringia, Sherman Alexie, Iroquois
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Bering land bridge to get there first, still theory though. Earth existed so long before europe and especially america. By nature very creative time (opportunity for self invention) because literally first people to look at this new place and explore. All the inventions, lacrosse and oral contraceptives (when it doesn"t work, baby bottles and formula), all sorts of things still here, the slide is interesting (anesthetics; syringes, gym, oil extraction from earth, bunk beds, apartment blocks, canoes) 250 languages just in us (cherokee language got syllabic alphabet later by sequoiah. Northern new mexico longest place continuously lived in, 1000 years, still fresh, apartments. They gave us corn, other domesticated crops. Agriculture (imagine trying to be the first to figure out how something grows and how you eat it). Calendar for growth what medicine it makes etc. Mound people, to mitigate flooding from mississippi (what gave them fertile soil)
