Agriculture, Indians, and American History

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Agriculture, American Indian. About 7000 years ago, the American Indians began agriculture in the North American continent when indigenous people in Illinois raised pumpkins. For the next thousands of years the Indian in the east of the Mississippi River domesticated the sunflower, the goose's foot, the elders of weeds and wetlands. Ancient farmers in Central America had cultivated maize or corn, which spread north after 3400 degrees latitude. And it arrived in eastern North America about 2000 years ago. Since the year 800, many Indian groups have adopted corn cultivation, by the year 1000, they are in three major crops - many other plants to provide corn, beans, pumpkin, and supplementary crops We developed a complex agriculture based on. When they contact Europe

In elementary school textbooks, corn is often synonymous with American Indian culture, indeed corn, beans and pumpkins are still staple food in historic Indian villages in some areas. However, North American agriculture did not originate from maize but planted sunflowers in the Midwest and Northeast regions between 4,000 and 1000 BC. Jerusalem artichoke is another widely used food source, actually a sunflower tuber root. As early as 2300 BC to 2000, pumpkins tamed in the central part of Missouri emerged. This indicates that another agricultural fireplace was developed in the eastern forest area. Indigenous peoples planted wetlands, arthropods, grasses and geese legs These plants are considered weeds in modern society due to their oil and protein rich seeds (Cowan, 1985 : 207-17).

Just like most Americans today, almost all Europeans in the 18th and 19th centuries, Jefferson did not acknowledge American Indian farming. American Indians have a highly developed agricultural system that provides surplus to many immigrants in Europe, but Jefferson insists that the Indians live mainly in hunting. Part of it is the prejudice of men that is common today. Because hunting is often a job of men, it is thought to be more important than female work (agriculture). This ignores the fact that women's work offers most of the calories consumed.