Further information: Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands and Indigenous peoples of FloridaAcolapissa (Colapissa), Louisiana and MississippiAis, eastern coastal FloridaAlabama, Creek Confe ...
In the United States and Canada, ethnographers commonly classify indigenous peoples into ten geographical regions with shared cultural traits, called cultural areas. Greenland is part of the Arctic re ...
Bands have a loose organization. Their power structure is often egalitarian and has informal leadership; the older members of the band generally are looked to for guidance and advice, and decisions ar ...
A polity is a state or one of its subordinate civil authorities, such as a province, prefecture, county, municipality, city, or district. It is generally understood to mean a geographic area with a co ...
Human sacrifice See also: Human sacrifice in Aztec culture and Human sacrifice in Maya cultureSacrifice had great importance in the social and religious aspects of Mesoamerican culture. First, it show ...
Generally applied to the Maya area, the Terminal Classic roughly spans the time between AD 800/850 and ca. AD 1000. Overall, it generally correlates with the rise to prominence of Puuc settlements in ...
The term Mesoamerica – literally, "middle America" in Greek – is defined as the area that is home to the Mesoamerican civilization, which comprises a group of peoples with close cultural and histori ...
African and Native Americans have interacted for centuries. The earliest record of Native American and African contact occurred in April 1502, when Spanish colonists transported the first Africans to ...
Native Americans are more commonly known as Indians or American Indians. The term Native American was introduced in the United States in preference to the older term Indian to distinguish the indigeno ...
There are 562 federally recognized tribal governments in the United States. These tribes possess the right to form their own governments, to enforce laws (both civil and criminal) within their lands, ...
Main article: History of Native Americans in the United StatesPre-ColumbianFurther information: Settlement of the Americas, Paleo-Indians, and Pre-Columbian eraMap showing the approximate location of ...
Countless North American Indigenous words, inventions and games have become an everyday part of Canadian language and use. The canoe, snowshoes, the toboggan, lacrosse, tug of war, maple syrup and tob ...
First Nations peoples had settled and established trade routes across what is now Canada by 500 BCE–1,000 CE. Communities developed each with its own culture, customs, and character. In the northwest ...
Further information: Section Thirty-five of the Constitution Act, 1982The terms First Peoples and First Nations are both used to refer to indigenous peoples of Canada. The terms First Peoples or Abori ...
