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Iroquois History and Legends

18 Native American Technology

Iroquois History and Legends

Andrew James Cotter

Canadian History, Iroquois, History, North American History, First Nations, Religion & Spirituality, American History, Education, Six Nations, Native America, Christianity, Native American, Indian History, Colonial History, Haudenosaunee

4.8697 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This episode covers how Northeastern Native American Peoples used innovative technology in their everyday lives.  We cover longhouses, palisades, canoes, pitch, tanning, snowshoes, trail markers, beds and much more.  As well as... baby bottles.

Sources:

IROQUOIA: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIVE WORLD BY WILLIAM ENGELBRECHT

1491: NEW REVELATIONS OF THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS BY CHARLES MANN

IROQUOIS USES OF MAIZE AND OTHER FOOD PLANTS BY ARTHUR CASWELL PARKER

Ganondagan State Historic Site



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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Hello, welcome to Iroquois History and Legends. This is Andrew, and this is Caleb.

0:30.2

Welcome to episode 18, Native American Technology.

0:34.7

Now, Andrew, this is an episode that we actually intended to do very early in the podcast

0:42.0

when we first launched it.

0:43.9

But after spending about four months just trying to lay some groundwork so we can get into

0:49.0

the narrative, we felt like that we were stuck and stalled on making progress with the

0:53.7

podcast and we wanted to get

0:55.1

into some of the linear history. Here we are, 13 episodes in? 18 plus our legend episodes.

1:03.1

No kidding, man. So this is our 21st show. 21 episodes in. So now we're going to take a quick

1:08.8

step back and we're going to tell you some

1:12.2

things that we learned about technology in everyday life for Northeastern Native Americans.

1:18.7

And this will kind of help you understand a little more where these people are coming from

1:22.9

and how they go about their daily lives.

1:25.3

We're going to be covering several hundred years and remember that technology changes over time.

1:30.3

And so we'll specify how this style of everything has evolved over time.

1:36.3

Can you imagine if aliens in the future come down and look at our technology from 2005 and think that we're all walking around with

1:45.5

primitive iPhone ones and things like that.

1:48.2

We do adapt as time goes on to much superior technology.

1:52.0

And the Native Americans were no different.

1:53.8

Yep.

1:54.9

So to start off, Caleb, we're going to talk about laundhouses.

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