Once the well-known navigator Columbus, pestering to unknown shores, decided that he had sailed to India. And therefore, without thinking twice, he called the Indians of America he saw the Indians. Fortunately, there are still some similarities between the inhabitants of India and the Indians discovered by Columbus. And scientists believe that US Indians are rooted in Asia. According to some studies, once between the two continents - America and Asia on the site of the modern Bering Strait
there was a wide isthmus along which the distant ancestors of the present North American Indians migrated from Asia to America. For many thousands of years, the American Indians of the United States inhabited the lands of
North America and owned it alone. Until
Christopher Columbus opened the way for Europe there
, and the European colonization of American lands began.
Prior to this, the American Indians lived mainly tribal communities. And only the most advanced, such as the Aztecs and Mayans, who predicted the end of the world that did not take place in 2012, already knew the joys of class society to Columbus. Before colonization, about 2,200 Native American peoples lived on the American continent. At the beginning of the XXI century, as a result of known events, about a thousand remained. All Indian peoples in the 15th century united into 400 tribes, each of which spoke its own language. Until the 19th century, these tribes did not have their own written language, however, some of them used pictographic writing. By the way, not a single language of the North American tribes has profanity. Don't swear
US Indians. Just as they don’t have an ambiguous irony for Europe and modern civilized America. Indians in the USA are not joking about topics below the belt. The relationship of the sexes for them is that of God. That is - holy.
The hunters and farmers of the North American tribes left the story a lot of beautiful and mysterious. For example, a recipe for a wonderful meat concentrate, almost the first freeze-dried product in the history of mankind , an ancestor
current bouillon cubes. The product was called pemmican and was made from dried or cured meat of bison, lard and dried berries. US Indians took pemmicans on military campaigns and on a long journey. The advantage of pemmican over other products was that, having a small relative weight and volume, it provided a person with all the nutrients and energy. In addition, carefully dried raw materials could not deteriorate for years, despite the absence of preservatives and stabilizers in the concentrate. These features made it possible for the pemmican to become the number one product for researchers in the Arctic and Antarctic, and to be widely used in our time.
To date, in the United States, according to official authorities, there are 565 American Indian tribes living on reserves. This complex legal structure - reservations - did not come from a good life, but it has been successfully existing to this day. The laws of the American states do not apply in them, and today's Indians of the USA can form their own governments, pass laws, establish and pay taxes. In a word, such a strange story. And a lot, a lot of politics.