What are native americans are best known for?

Question

For example someone from the african american culture discover electricity, african american people are known for singing, arts, and so much more. I want to know what are Native American people are know for besides Tribes and belifes system. What are Native American are best known for when it comes to innovation?

Answer 1

Food - Native American of North, Meso-, and South America were the first to cultivate 75% of the varities of food grown in the world today. Some are listed at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_cuisine

Corn was cultivated by Native people for thousands of years. Today it is grown all around the world.

Popcorn, peanuts and maple syrup, Native American inventions; original ingreadiants used in Cracker Jacks.

Frozen Food - Clarence Birdseye offers quick-frozen foods to the public. He got the idea during fur-trapping expeditions to Labrador in 1912 and 1916, where he saw the natives use freezing to preserve foods.

Freeze-dried food - The Inca of Peru used to preserve potatoes using a freeze-dry process. They put them on mountain terraces, and the solar radiation and extremely cold temperatures created a freeze-dried product that lasted indefinitely.

Beef Jerky - Native Americans cured meat for many thousands of years.

Rootbeer - Native Americans made Root beer from Sassafras.

Wild rice a cereal grain, was sometimes presented as a treasured gift to fur traders as a symbol of friendship.

Chocolate - was given to the world by the Aztecs, Mayans, and Central American tribes

Vanilla - was used by the Aztecs to flavor their chocolate drinks

Chewing Gum - Spruce resin was used to quench thirst, and also as a medicine. South and Central American Indians collected chicle from the Sapodilla tree to make gum.

Many pharmaceuticals in current use were first discovered by Indian healers centuries before the Europeans came to the Americas.

The active ingredient in pain relievers such as Aspirin was known to Native people for centuries.

Pine trees were used to make a tea that helped relieve coughs. Many cough syrups today use the same ingredient.

A tea made with the whole blackberry plant was used to treat sicknesses such as dysentery, cholera and upset stomach.

Native people shared their cure for scurvy with Europeans. The bark and needles of the hemlock or pine tree are boiled to make a vitamin C tonic.

Native people used olefin hydrocarbons and methane to make petroleum jelly, and used it to hydrate and protect animal and human skin.

Goggles - Northern Native people developed bone, antler and ivory goggles to prevent blinding snow glare while they hunted.

Lacrosse - a team sport invented by Native people. Many believe it is the fore-runner to hockey.

Canoe & kayak - Today the canoe and kayak are used throughout the world.

Some other inventions:
Toboggan
Snowshoes
Syringes
Rubber - rubberized clothing
asphalt
.

Answer 2

I think its funny because one my mother has native american blood shes half native and half sicilian (the dark moore sicilians) and she looks mestizo my dads mexican when i have the rare encounters of the fascinating white people they either call me an immigrant or a beaner and whats the funniest is when i tell them my mother has plains apache blood they laugh and say no your a mexican stop trying to make up stuff to sound like you belong here and funnier is THEY point at themselves and say wait for it.......IM PART CHEROKEE!and they begin waving there dreamcatchers and have blonde hair blue eyes and freckeld skin and i have met real natives full and half blood some that do have blonde blue eyes but are enrolled and respect there culture i tell them i have native blood but i make it clear that i am not yet enrolled and they never critisize and tell me"well you do look pretty native to me"and ebcourage me to find my tribe wich somes up to me the true and fakes

Answer 3

Medecine.

Native american medecine and surgical techniques are the closest one to modern medecine. Many herb remedies are still used today, tough under a tablet form.

Of course, since they virtually all died out, what you find today are closer to New Age magic shops and souvenir gigs, but well-documented history showed that they had no problems with medecine until the dirty 15th century yokals arrived and started giving small-pox filled sheets...

Answer 4

An old knowlege of living with the land.

Answer 5

the native american ''like myself'' were known for their will to defend their famillys, way of life, and contriey. they are known for their endless sorce of bravery, and will to live.

Answer 6

aspirin - derived from the red willow.
Corn Flakes - Tobacco - Potatoes
The U.S. Constitution is based on the laws of the six nations

Answer 7

building casinos....nah..just joking..they were best at respecting mans balance and reverence for nature...unlike whitemen who plundered and killed almost extinguishing the buffalo...* the idiot who shot the last Dodo bird was all proud of himself...can you imagine...talk about savages!

Answer 8

survival -- sense of humor -- taking care of each other in times of need -- respecting nature among many others