Familiar strangers - American Indians

Once a well-known navigator Columbus, attached to unknown shores, decided that he had sailed to India. Therefore, without thinking twice, he named the Indians whom he saw as Indians. Fortunately, there is some similarity between the people of India and the Indians open to Columbus. And scientists believe that the US Indians are rooted in Asia. According to some studies, there was once between these two continents - America and Asia in place of the modern Bering Strait There was a wide isthmus along which the distant ancestors of the current 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, the European colonization of American lands did not begin.

Before that, American Indians lived mainly in tribal communities. And only the most advanced, such as predicted the end of the world of the Aztecs and Maya that failed in 2012, already knew the joy of class society for Columbus. Before colonization in the American continent, there were about 2,200 Indian peoples. At the beginning of the XXI century, as a result of well-known events, there were about a thousand left. All the Indian peoples in the 15th century were united in 400 tribes, each of which spoke its own language. Until the XIX century, these tribes did not have their own written language, however, some of them used pictographic letters. By the way, there is no foul language in any language of the North American tribes. Do not swear Indians of the USA. Just as they do not have an ambiguous irony habitual for Europe and modern civilized America. Do not joke Indians in the US on the subjects below the belt. The relationship of the sexes to them is that of God. That is - holy.

Hunters and farmers of the North American tribes left the history of many beautiful and mysterious. For example, a recipe for a remarkable meat concentrate, perhaps the first ever sublimated product in the history of mankind, the progenitor The current bouillon cubes. It was called a product of pemmikan and was made from dried or jerky meat of bison, bacon and dried berries. The US Indians took pemmikan on military campaigns and on a long journey. The advantage of pemmikan over other products was that, having a small relative weight and volume, it provided the person with all nutrients and energy. In addition, carefully dried raw materials could not spoil for years, despite the absence of preservatives and stabilizers in the concentrate. These features have allowed the pemmican to become the number one product for researchers in the Arctic and Antarctic, and have been widely used in our time.

For today in the USA, according to the information of official authorities, there are 565 tribes of American Indians living in reservations. Complicated this legal arrangement - reservations - did not come from a good life, but it still exists successfully. They do not operate the laws of the American states, and today's US Indians can form their governments, pass laws, establish and pay taxes. In a word, such a strange story. And a lot of politics.