Timeline for What describes the average pre-colonial NA Native American lifestyle (across several tribes)?
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| Aug 10, 2018 at 12:02 | history | edited | Peter Diehr | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 9, 2018 at 14:57 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | @T.E.D.: Pre-contact you're right, but there is much pre-colonial interaction with the North American tribes following initial contact. All the early Hudson's Bay exploration, all the French exploration outside the St. Lawrence and Ottawa River valleys, all the early Mississippi River exploration, Lewis and Clark west of the Missippi, just for starters. | |
| Aug 9, 2018 at 13:51 | comment | added | Greg | @PieterGeerkens I am pretty sure there is no written accounts on pre-columbian life satisfaction based on first hand interviews, justesp with wide variety of tribes, therefore one should be a little flexible to give any meaningful answer to OP | |
| Aug 9, 2018 at 13:31 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | @PieterGeerkens - Yeah, you'd think there'd be some good material written down from them. I got a pretty good book for Christmas about the early-contact tribes in the Arkansas and southern Missouri valley areas that was compiled from such sources. Basic premise was that before American settlers arrived, native tribes in the area were really running the show, and the French/Spanish ownership claims were basically mutually-useful polite fictions. I'll try to remember to dig up the name when I get home. | |
| Aug 9, 2018 at 3:05 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | @T.E.D.: The Jesuits (Jean de Brebeuf et al) were living with the Georgian Bay Huron from 1626-1649, and the La Verendrye family were fur trapping as far west as Alberta and the Rocky Mountains by the 1730's - I just can't find anything available digitally in English yet. | |
| Aug 9, 2018 at 2:31 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | @PieterGeerkens - While that's true, with Native American sources you generally have to go with early contact European accounts (which are going to be a bit biased), or restrict yourself to archeology. It would be nice if there were lots of 100% native alternatives, but without any (known) pre-contact writing systems, we're kinda stuck. | |
| Aug 9, 2018 at 0:40 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | The era 1772-1782 is hardly even close to pre-colonial contact as requested by OP. | |
| Aug 9, 2018 at 0:38 | history | answered | Peter Diehr | CC BY-SA 4.0 |