The American Indians were the first farmers. Corn was first cultivated 7,000 years ago, and beans over 4,000 years ago. In the early days, visitors entered a longhouse and the women would set food and tobacco in front of him. After a visitor finished his meal, he was asked the reason for his visit.
Iroquois women were the owners of property such as longhouses, fields, and crops. At planting time, the women of the village would offer a prayer over the field while the men would sometimes chant a prayer as well. The women began their work by sowing the seeds, weeding the rows and gathering the crops at harvest time. Women are the carriers of life. When you go back in history, everything that was passed on for us to practice as traditional people, the pipe and the drum, it was always placed into the woman’s hand to receive. For all this, we are to respect them.
Native American Indians taught the settlers how to plant and harvest corn, squash, and beans. This helped to avoid the devastation of starvation. The vast majority of foods we know today are of Native American origin.
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