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Little known facts about Native Americans

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Little known facts about Native Americans

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  1. Lower Antelope Canyon Tours - Arizona Visit us: www.antelopelowercanyon.com Little Known facts about Native Americans In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, did you know… The tribes of Foxes, Saux, and Assiniboine played a game called shinny, which is where the modern sport of hockey originated. The sequoia tree is named after the Cherokee leader Sequoyah, who among other things created a syllabary in 1821, making reading and writing within the Cherokee Nation possible. It is estimated that as much as 60 percent of the global food supply is based on crops that originated in North America. Ancient Indigenous people were the first to domesticate the strains of maize that produced popcorn thousands of years ago. Historians believe corn itself was created by Indigenous farmers in southern Mexico and Guatemala 10,000 years ago. The Navajo Nation is the largest Indian reservation in the United States, comprising about 16 million acres, or about 27,000 square miles. As many as 500 different spoken languages were recognized by Indigenous peoples across the American continent prior to European colonization. Native Americans were one of the main architects of Democracy. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy (also widely known as the Iroquois Confederacy), was formed by five tribal nations: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca nearly 900 years ago. It is considered one of the oldest Democracies known to historians.

  2. Lower Antelope Canyon Tours - Arizona Visit us: www.antelopelowercanyon.com The Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy – known as The Great Law of Peace – served as a model used to draft the Constitution of the United States. Contact Us: Dixie's Lower Antelope Canyon Tours - Arizona Indn, Route 222, Page, AZ 86040, United States https://www.antelopelowercanyon.com/ Contact us: +1(928)-640-1761 Tour Booking: book@lowercanyontours.com Business Profile: https://goo.gl/maps/JtvXmSK7TitgPhMh9 Follow-us on: https://www.facebook.com/Lower-Antelope-Canyon-Tours-248337232008094/ https://www.instagram.com/dixieslact/ https://www.pinterest.com/antelopelowercanyon/ https://www.youtube.com/@dixieslowerantelopecanyon885

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