Portal:Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples that inhabited the Americas before the arrival of European settlers in the 15th century and the ethnic groups who continue to identify themselves with those peoples.

The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are diverse; some Indigenous peoples were historically hunter-gatherers, while others traditionally practice agriculture and aquaculture. In some regions, Indigenous peoples created pre-contact monumental architecture, large-scale organized cities, city-states, chiefdoms, states, kingdoms, republics, confederacies and empires. These societies had varying degrees of knowledge of engineering, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, writing, physics, medicine, planting and irrigation, geology, mining, metallurgy, sculpture and gold smithing. (Full article...)

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picture of an Aztec woman with a speech scroll coming out of her mouth, from the florentine codex
picture of an Aztec woman with a speech scroll coming out of her mouth, from the florentine codex

Nahua people, most of whom live in Central Mexico. All Nahuan languages are indigenous to Mesoamerica
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Nahuatl has been spoken in

codices were written in it during the 16th and 17th centuries. This early literary language based on the Tenochtitlan variety has been labeled Classical Nahuatl and is among the most studied and best-documented languages of the Americas
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Stucco relief at the Maya ruins at Palenque, as drawn by Ricardo Almendáriz at the time of the Del Rio expedition in 1787
image credit: Library of Congress

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Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society
Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society

remove the Chippewa and in securing permanent reservations
for his people near Lake Superior.

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