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To: denydenydeny
Nearly all Indian tribes were hunter-gatherers and had no cultivated land at all.

Eastern and Southern Indian tribes were cultivators, a slash and burn type of agriculture..........

71 posted on 12/22/2008 5:02:20 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv; All

slash and burn type of agriculture...

Another thing the indians did in the east was burn areas to turn them into grasslands which were used by buffalo. The Shenandoah Valley was once a buffalo common, and after the settlers there drove them away they continued to use areas in Kentucky, especially north of the Green River and Mammoth Cave. It was called the barrens and was quite large.


77 posted on 12/22/2008 9:29:32 PM PST by gleeaikin
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