Native cultures understood ancestry as matrilineal: family and clan identity proceeded along the female line, through mothers and daughters, rather than fathers and sons.
This is a wonderful example of how some cultures can be so different and still thrive.
One single building, Pueblo Bonito, stretched over two acres and rose five stories.
Is this building still standing today? Can you go and see it?
Cahokia experienced what one archeologist has called a “big bang” around the year 1050 that included “a virtually instantaneous and pervasive shift in all things political, social, and ideological.”4
What was the catalyst of this "big bang?"
“They are very gentle and without knowledge of what is evil; nor the sins of murder or theft,
This shows proof that native american's do not want any conflict with anyone who enters their land from the statment that Columbus said.