Their culture mostly was like animism in Africa and their small Bantu speaking people. They believed in spirits in all living things like the trees, sky, water, animals, and everything else you could think of. They were good at cultivating crops and had a diverse type of crops they would cultivate. Mostly corn (maiz), they traded this and dried buffalo meat (like jerkey) with other tribes and whatever they grew on their land. They enjoyed telling stories to the children to teach them lessons about life and they tried to teach them valuable lessons through stories of animals and stupid people. They taught morals like not stealing and such by telling stories of a robber who got killed by the spirit of the woods and such. Their culture thrived for hundreds and hundreds of years until the arrival of the "white man" (Europeans). They brought with them guns and disease which killed off many of the native peoples. The rest were slaughtered and used as slaves. The Europeans are the reason that there are so few living descendants of Native Americans today.
"Native Americans in the United States -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 08 Feb. 2009
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