what kind of landscape did the chumash indians live on?
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At one time there were hundreds of separate Chumash villages here in Santa Barbara. Some villages were as large as towns while others were quite small. The villages were constructed on high ground near lagoons, creek mouths, lakes, or springs. The largest villages were built along the mainland coast near the Santa Barbara Channel. Some other Indian people had similar customs, but no other Native Americans lived in exactly the same way as the Chumash people. Their invention and use of the plank canoe, their extraordinary baskets, tools and bead making, their customs and beliefs, and their craftmanship are what make the Chumash Indians unique. Various groups spoke distinct languages.\n\nmore information below
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Native Americans did just fine in the world they lived in.  The white man moved in and upset their culture.  The white man spread disease and killed them outright.  The natives were lied to just to swindle them out of the land that was theirs to begin with.
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City Map/Atlas\nPolitical Map\n\nThe Grand Canyon was created by the erosion of the Colorado river aided by wind, rain, ice, and gravity.
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I'd check river banks, lake shores, and road cuts in the coastal plain.  There was one place near Choke Canyon where the ground was literally covered with petrified wood...
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Life has a cycle and the Indians (American Style) knew that cycle.  When the first "Americans" came over to "The New World" they found a "pristine" world.  In the past few decades, Americans have been trying to return the "wilderness" to that pristine environment that they found when America was first "discovered."  \n\nWhat they found out is that the Indians would actually destroy large portions of a forest every year.  This destruction took place in the form of burning.  What they accomplished with this was the mandatory migration of the animals and removal of forest debris that gave new life a chance.  \n\nYellow Stone National park is a prime example of this gone wrong.  For years Smoky the Bear was saying "Only you can prevent forest fires." Fires were sought out and extinguished as soon as possible.  Forests were set aside and it became illegal to cut down trees.  What they noticed is that the forest were becoming over grown and dying.  So they decided one time to let a fire burn, hoping that the Indians (American style) were right.  \n\nWhat happened is that the fire burned so hot that it sterilized the ground and nothing would grow.  Why did it burn so hot?  So many years had past where the forest hadn't been allowed to naturally burn or be replaced by cutting down of trees.  Now forestry services don't try to put out fires and they actually will let you come in and cut down a tree or two.  Of course you will have to fill out a TON of paperwork (which comes from trees btw).  Now they merely try and contain forest fires and let them burn.  Nature needs to run its course and trees need to be replaced.  \n\nCutting down a tree is not a bad thing, what is a bad thing is if we cut it down and don't let nature replace it.  \n\nSo to make a long story short, I would both cut a tree down and plant one.  \n\n*hugs* ~ :)
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Argentina.  The European settlers wiped them out.
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The Aztecs, or more properly, the Mexicas, for whom the later Republic of Mexico was named, were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. They were a civilization with a rich mythology and cultural heritage. Their capital was Tenochtitlan, built on raised islets in Lake Texcoco – the site of modern-day Mexico City. The Aztec empire produced the biggest demographic explosion in Mesoamerica: the population grew from an estimated 10 million to 15 million.
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Through the Ouachita Mountain Range in Eastern Oklahoma, and all along the Indian Nation Turnpike, there are miles and miles of rolling mounds as far as you can see. These are NOT burial grounds.\nI think Pathstr8t was historically correct, but that answer was quite insulting, if you ask me. ONE, you must be "studying these things" or you wouldn't be asking. TWO, "teepee" is a correct term, and THREE, what makes them so sure there weren't villages where mounds developed, because I know my father and I have found many, many arrowheads and artifacts in those mounded plowed fields.There is no need to be insulting to other askers.
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Colorado had Commanche, Pueblo, and Apache Indians.  Wisconsin had the Winnepago and the Sioux.  The Tlinkit Indians lived in Ketchikan, Alaska.
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They were farmers. They planted crops in large clearings in the woods. They raised corn, beans and squash. They also hunted the deer, turkey, rabbits, squirrels and other animals in the pine woods around them. The women would gather wild plant food like acorns, black berries, persimmons, roots and many other plants and fruits. But, farming corn, beans, and squash provided the main source of food. Hunting parties of men would be formed to travel west onto the Southern Plains were there were many buffalo at certain times of the year. This was a long trip that could take several weeks. The men would dry the buffalo meat to preserve it so they could carry it home. They also saved the valuable buffalo skins to tan and use as robes. Buffalo skins with the hair on them are very soft and warm.\n\nFor food these Indians farmed corn, beans, squash and other crops. They would also hunt deer and gather berries, roots, and nuts. Early European explorers reported finding the woods cleared like a European park. This means the grass was short and the undergrowth was cleared away. The Indians did not have tractors or lawn mowers to do this. They would set fires in the woods to burn away the old taller grass and small shrubs and bushes without hurting the old trees with thick bark. If this is done every year or so, the fire keeps the undergrowth out. The Indians would do this in the fall and winter. In the spring new green grass would get more sun and grow better on the burned areas than in undergrowth. This tender green grass would attract deer and animals to hunt. These fires also made it easier to find acorns and nuts on the ground. The Southeastern Indians used a lot of acorns for food. So these fires were useful and not destructive. This is one way the Indians controlled their environment.
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They didn't have immigration laws back then.  The first native Americans that met the settlers liked and helped them.  Other tribes weren't so nice on the intrusion of their land,(the territory they were aware of and hunted in etc) even if it was other Native Americans.  You act like like they had maps and all abided by the same rules and cultural practices and met once a year to toke the peace pipe and compare notes.
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Yep, there was a Native American geonocide.\n\nThere were millions of people living in the Americas when Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. Columbus's voyage to what Europeans called the "New World" set the stage for the later European colonization of the Americas, with millions of emigrants (willing and unwilling) from the "Old World" eventually resettling in the Americas. While the population of Old World peoples in the Americas steadily grew in the centuries after Columbus, the population of the American indigenous peoples plummeted. The extent and causes of this population decline have long been the subject of controversy and debate, which became particularly widespread in 1992 during the 500th anniversary of Columbus's famous voyage, with a number of people claiming that the natives of the Americas have been the victims of genocide.
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Yes they did and the Spanish thought it was the work of the devil, Native American indians have the same story, the flood probably was the ice melting then building back up as ice ages do not just stop, they ebb like waves just not as fast of course
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Native Americans... but I would not put it as "disputing European land claims".... rather the question should be "Who did the Europeans steal the land from" !\nThe native americans lived in what is now called america for thousands of years before the Europeans arrived to loot and plunder and commit genocides... this sounds harsh but it is sadly true.
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1-they were preparing for a journey in which they were uncertain of the final destination\n2-wild animals\n3-weather\n4-disease and illnesses\n5-hard travel  (no roads, rough terrain)\n6-had to kill their own food to eat to survive\n7-possibility of coming in contact with hostile indians and other settlers that might rob or hurt them\n\nthis is all i can think of right now - good luck!
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• 500 Semi-subterranean chambers known as kivas are built in the Southwest, some used for ceremonial purposes.\n\n• 500 The bow and arrow are in use on the Great Plains.\n\n• 600 The population grows in the Southwest and cotton cultivation spreads northward from Mexico; regional differentiation develops and is reflected in the pottery styles.\n\n• 750 Corn is increasingly present among native crops in the river valleys of the Midwest and Southeast.\n\n• 800 In the central Mississippi region known as the American bottom, mound centers—some with structures placed around community plazas—become politically dominant.\n\n• 800 Pithouses give way to surface structures in the Southwest.\n\n• 850 Intensive maize agriculture is practiced in the Southwest, and durable shell-tempered pottery is produced. Ballcourts are present at Snaketown in Arizona.\n\n• 850 In the Arctic, settlements grow larger on St. Lawrence Island; a body armor and archery complex develops.\n\n• 900 Construction of large multiroomed buildings, known as great houses, begins in Chaco Canyon in the central San Juan Basin of southwestern New Mexico.\n\n• 950 Effigy-mound groups, representing animals and birds, are erected in the Midwest; Great Serpent Mound rises in Ohio.\n\n• 1000 In the Mimbres Valley of New Mexico, a distictive type of ceramic decoration develops.\n\nSee site below for a complete timeline of events throughout the world.....
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Although the "plank" design may look like it was borrowed from European houses, it was not. There are Indian plank homes that date back many many hundreds of years associated with various local Northern California Tribes including Karuk, Yurok, Tolowa, and Hupa. The structures were partially set below ground with a round doorway set above ground level. There was a ledge or shelf that ran around the interior of the home at ground level, and a pit dug below ground level in the center of the home. Smaller plank houses were made for use as sweathouses.