Why didn't native american indians have beards?
409950
Hey, take it easy on a guy!\n\nI'm half and I could grow a "teaser" if I wanted, as could most NDN guys.\n\nGuess we figured we'll leave that up to the White boys!
401972
Because we were separated into tribes and races so we would be more recognizeable.  So we can tell eachother apart.  If all there were were one set of traits (Ie: black hair and brown eyes) it would be pretty hard to tell us all apart.
635221
Native Americans are naturally near hairless people. My mother is Cherokee and she brags to me that she never had to shave anything her entire life. So it's partially true, yet I doubt that every single NA woman is hairless.
464415
At first, the Native Americans were probably curious.  While some tribes might have been prone to instigating trouble - many other tribes might have been open to the idea of a new group of individuals living in harmony beside them.\n\nWhat they found was group of people with very little respect for the land and its native people.  The English settlers (I'm refering to the Pilgrims up here in MA) weren't nice people and they weren't interested in cultivating meaninful relationships with natives unless it could provide them with useful knowledge to farm or hunt.  Once the Native Americans learned of the true nature of the colonizing English I'm sure they became weary of their presence.  Wars broke out - remember?  \n\nWere the English right to enter a territory that was already being lived in by others and trying to ungratefully utilize resources?  Would you want someone barging into your backyard and say "Hi I'm going to live here now - even though you've work hard your entire life for this little plot of land in the universe...oh and I'm gonna need some food, want to go grocery shopping for me?" \n\nI think you'd get rather ticked off.\n\n**\nKit4info:  You would like ME to learn MY American history?  If you are so ignorant to the treatment of the Native Americans by English settlers then you should not be responding to this question.  Research King Phillip’s War (1675-1676).  The cause of this war was due to what I said previously: mistreatment of the Natives.   Specifically: disrespect of Natives and continued expansion of the settlers.  The war involved the Wampanoag, Iroquois and Mohicans (western territories), Narragansett, Podunk,  and Nipmuck to name a few.  When war broke out most Natives sided with Phillip, a few who had converted to Christianity fought with the English, others were neutral.  Read this excerpt: \n\n “King Philip’s War was one of the bloodiest and most costly in the history of America. One in ten soldiers on both sides was injured or killed. It took many years for Plymouth and the other colonies to recover from damage to property\nThe outcome of King Philip’s War was devastating to the traditional way of life for Native People in New England. Hundreds of Natives who fought with Philip were sold into slavery abroad. Others, especially women and children, were forced to become servants locally. As the traditional base of existence changed due to the Colonists’ victory, the Wampanoag and other local Native communities had to adapt certain aspects of their culture in order to survive.”  \n\nDid I say that I think we should all leave because this land we live upon was stolen?  No – so what are you talking about “dinosaurs” for?  I am not “parroting” anything I am stating historical facts, my dear:  The Puritan settlers and their leaders were not nice people – not the innocents seeking religious freedom that you seem to think.  The majority of Native American tribes up here were NOT happy with what was happening around and did not like these intruders, although they tried to live beside them for several years, they quickly grew weary of their presence.  That was the question I read and that was what I answered.  No need to speak so condescendingly in order to gain a sense of authority because your argument is unfounded, illogical and worthless.  To deny any of these facts would be absurd; have you EVER taken an early American history class?  Someone was denied a school fieldtrip to Plimoth Plantation as a child and it shows.
651270
depends on the tribe. most native american tribes have no word for it. they have no words for anything that suggest inequality, as it was a concept that was alien to them.
151045
The natives didn't necessarily have social classes.  There was a division of labor, and people did what they were good at or born to do, but everyone contributed to the society.  There were priests or shamans or medicine men, a number of chiefs-war chiefs as one example, warriors, hunters, and the women.  No one was really higher than anyone else.
401637
for American Indian? there isn't one yet but there is a petition for one
321563
Native Americans tribe names are as numerous as sand on the beach. I think you're asking probably, who named them "Indians." I imagine that would be Columbus who thought he ended up in India and assumed those he met were Indians. Various tribe names as we know them today are probably whatever we could repeat as white settlers. Im sure if you ask an Indian their tribe name may be different than what we commonly know them as. Like the Anasazi, if I remember right, the call themselves someting different, Anasazi is a name the whites gave them because thats what they heard their enemies call them.
882151
They were a southern indian tribe around GA. It would be low plains.
461992
Why doesn't the "Native Race" fix what they did to themselves?
45729
according to the islamic law you are not supposed to shave your beard, and genetically they tend to have a lot of facial hair as well.
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JUst from the top of my head\n\nNo I dont beleive they were plain indians\nThey were short, strong legs and the reason there were so much difficulty catching them was because they were mountain people\nFor the longuest time they did not need horses.\n\nLater, they needed to live in the plains due to reservation policy.\nTHey were taken away from their natural territories to be located in reservations ( I think they were sent to the Four Corners (around Oklahoma) which was very different from where they came from....\n\nI have Mohawk ancestry...\n\nHope I am not too off the mark...
898605
Absolutely, he should call himself a bear.  Being hairy is just one aspect of beardom--and I've met very few "perfect" bears.  Some don't have bellies, some don't have beards, some wouldn't be caught dead camping, and some are quite effeminate.  It's just a label to give other guys a general idea of what we are like, and what we are into.
915612
As long as there are indigenous peoples then there will be some form of their original religion practiced.  I know that it has been discouraged over the years but there are some going back to their origins and bringing back the old customs and beliefs such as with many American Indian tribes.  I have gleaned this through my studies in Anthropology (that was my major in college) and from my interest in American Indian cultures.
564649
there are native american role models listen to fredom radio seek out independent news source, the native americans were victims of genocide and slavery in the name of christianity  and alot of the poulation is isolated from the trest of society on a reservation,one of the most murderous men towards them,who actually recorded his savage actions in ajournal,and can be found in archives is christopher columbus and we celebrate this monster with a national holiday try looking it up in the book or one of them disinformation you are being lied to
589172
ask the native americans who have been here for 30,000 years!!!!!!
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I point out that "God made them" fails entirely to explain the situation.  Adam and Eve cannot contribute enough different versions of genes (four total, assuming no duplicates) to account for the modern diversity of hair color, much less the really complicated traits (over 100 different versions in some cases).\n\nAncestral humans were dark haired.  Mutant genes for different hair colors have occured at various times in history.  Caucasians seem to have several.  It's not clear why.  It's suspected that it may have to do with general color reduction to allow us to produce more vitamin D (I think that's the one we produce with sunlight).  Dark hair on the body would absorb light and keep it off the skin, just like melanin in the skin would absorb it and keep it from being used.\n\nThe people who lived in Japan before it's current ethnic group moved in had a red hair gene that was fairly common and still crops up on occasion in Japan to this day, though not at all often.