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What were the native North American concepts of property rights and market exchange?
I just saw a documentary about the colonial time in North America and how the Lenape people sold the Delaware valley to Europeans. In this program a current Lenape "chieftain" claimed that ...
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Did Europeans ever trade eye aids (telescopes, spyglass, etc) to the Native Americans (1608 - 1850)?
Did Europeans ever trade telescopes to the Native Americans? Did they ever attempt to do so?
Edit: changing this to any kind of eye aids. Telescopes, spyglass, binoculars, monocles, magnifying glasses,...
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Did Cahokia have any communication with Mexica or Mayan civilization?
It's roughly 2,000 kilometers from St. Louis to modern Mexico city, as the crow flies; a little farther to the Yucatan. The Mississippi river and the Gulf of Mexico provide reasonably direct water ...
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What, if anything, did Native Americans know about the rest of the world? [duplicate]
Did the indigenous tribes of North America know anything at all about civilization outside the continent before the fifteenth century? If so, how much did they know, and what international relations ...
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How did native Americans and European colonists conduct their trades?
I'm curious to know how Natives Americans and Europeans colonists traded during the colonization of north-east America.
what kind of currencies (if any) were used? Or did they barter?
