Did the Native Americans teach the early settlers about foods and herbs?
Answer Brittany; Every year, around this time, we get questions from 7th Graders whose teachers are looking for a written essay on Native American subjects. I’m pretty sure the point of the exercise is to teach 7th Graders how to do research on literary/historic subjects, first hand. I’m glad that your search turned up our site, but your questions are all answered in text books probably residing in your school library. From the nature of what you have asked, I think you want to know if Native Americans had a traditional, mentor/teacher role with the Europeans arriving. First, as there were more than 600 different Nations present here in North American before Columbus, Vikings, Irish Monks, or even Japanese Sailors. Most had unique languages and culture, so it is foolhardy to attempt to answer any general question for all Native Americans — each experience derived from contact was different. Because of really important differences between European government and NA “government”, the in
