Why Did Native Americans Get Their Food

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Have you wondered how everything started? How the Native Americans lived? How the Native Americans get their food? Native Americans were a member of any of the indigenous people but especially Native Americans of North America. We have inherited a lot of things from them like the way they build, the way they make clothes, their music, their religion and the way they get the food. They had many ways to get their food but they had four forms that they usually used that were hunting and fishing, gathering, farming, and raising domesticated animals but hunting and fishing, gathering and farming were much more common. There were not many domesticated animals in North America before Europeans arrived. But they were based on hunting and fishing because they liked to have their food fresh. Also, I'm …show more content…
Also, other important food was squash, pumpkins, sunflowers, wild rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, peanuts, avocados, papayas, and chocolate. Other foods that you can find naturally are the eggs, honey, maple syrup and sugar, salt, nuts, etc. But every animal that lived in America was a part of the menu.

Another form that they used to get food is Gathering. The gathering is when you collect food, sometimes it’s easy because you just need to grab some apple from a tree and that’s is. Then sometimes it’s a lot of problems because sometimes you need a specialist that knows how to do Gathering. there were different types of "teachers" who were people who became different in different things. Usually, Native Americans gathered wild foods in addition to hunting, fishing, or farming.

In conclusion, the Native Americans were very good to admire since they could survive in an incredible way, they are our example to follow. It is imaginable the way in which they could survive and the different ways that they used to be able to get their food, etc. They left us all those ways to live, they made our future

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