Native North American Timeline and Guide

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by Carolina Allen4 views·Updated Feb 26, 2021
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  1. Hello, I'm Carolina Allen, and this is my native North
  2. American timeline.
  3. So the beginning for my timeline starts in 15,000 BC.
  4. This is when many historians believe the first people were
  5. beginning to inhabit North America s O.
  6. This was also known as the pre Clovis period.
  7. So although the first people were believed to be here
  8. in 15,000 BC, the Mississippians were not here until about
  9. 900 c e.
  10. And we're here until their collapse in 17.
  11. 30 c.
  12. So the Mississippians were very special.
  13. Um, they were very special because of their giant mounds
  14. they built which were used for food storage, burial maps,
  15. religious practices, um, war and even housing.
  16. So you the pictures, both the pictures, the first one
  17. and the second one are off mounts.
  18. So the first one is amount today.
  19. And then the second picture is a chief air, a
  20. priest on top of the mound, and you could see
  21. all the people below them.
  22. So the Mississippians also had enormous populations in the society
  23. was corn based, so they would harvest a lot of
  24. corn and they would save a corn in these mounds.
  25. So the political order consisted of the elite in the
  26. non elites, and the elites were like the chiefs, the
  27. shamans, the priests, people that had lineage routed to God,
  28. and then the non elites for commoners like the working
  29. people. So what I credit as being the middle part
  30. of the Mississippi and error is when the Spanish came
  31. to the New World.
  32. So her Nando de Soto, a Spanish explorer, and his
  33. men came to the New World for riches, and they
  34. arrived in 15 40 c e um, they would come
  35. to these chiefdoms and they would make the members pledged
  36. their allegiance to Spain and then accept the Catholic faith.
  37. So they brought great war, um, and would always, like
  38. capture people for slaves, and then they would also capture
  39. the chiefs.
  40. The Chiefs is told who they went for first, and
  41. the reason they did so is because the people of
  42. these chiefdoms they believe that their chief was a god,
  43. and when they would capture their chief, they would like
  44. fall apart.
  45. They would not be able to fight, so it's easier
  46. to capture them and to defeat them in battle.
  47. So the Spanish also had better weapons and would kill
  48. as many people as they could.
  49. Um, except for the ones that they captured.
  50. And De Soto's mark can be seen by the fact
  51. that when he comes through in 15 40 there were
  52. 80 villages.
  53. There's documents that there were 80 villages.
  54. But when the sale of French Man comes in 16
  55. 82 there are only five remaining.
  56. And not only did the Spanish kill native people by
  57. war, but they also brought many new diseases, and these
  58. diseases would pass from town to town.
  59. And since everyone was sick, there was no one to
  60. take care of the ones that were dying.
  61. And so this diseases continued to spread and they had
  62. no resistance, so it made it even harder to find
  63. them. And the Mississippi had the Mississippi and people had
  64. a large gap in between Soto and the English.
  65. So this gap allowed them to grow in numbers because
  66. they began to develop resistance to these new diseases.
  67. And this is why I created this to the middle
  68. because they rose up again.
  69. They did not die off because of these diseases.
  70. They had a low point, but they grew once again
  71. and the turning point that I would like to talk
  72. about is the formation of Confederacy.
  73. So after being kicked from the coming of the Spanish
  74. and the Europeans keep teams began to band together.
  75. So they did this and they would develop political units
  76. called Confederacy ease.
  77. And these Confederacy is where where towns would form alliances
  78. and the Confederacy had no hierarchy, no central government.
  79. They loosely tied these towns together.
  80. So ultimately, this preserved, um their values and their beliefs.
  81. And there's no official data when this happened.
  82. Um, but it made it harder for others to break
  83. these bonds.
  84. And so, for the questions that were supposed to ask
  85. about this timeline, um, I'm trying to convey the message
  86. that the Mississippians were resilient.
  87. Although they continuously fail, they always found a way to
  88. re emerge or to grow from their mistakes and, like
  89. form Confederacy.
  90. So that was my biggest point.
  91. And then the points and events on my timeline have
  92. showed me that the Mississippians are extremely, um, interesting, and
  93. it is important to say these people to learn about
  94. our history as people who live in North America, and
  95. a lot of times these people have for gotten, um
  96. I feel like the Mississippi and chiefdoms can also show
  97. us ways in which societies should work, but also can
  98. show us what not to do.
  99. And it is important to study the history of native
  100. North America through the in big indigenous perspective.
  101. So we can see what actually happened before the new
  102. world was discovered and how the discovery of the new
  103. um, new North America, um, by different contents continents impacted
  104. those that lived here before us.