Welcome to Genius Indigenous

                                         This website's mission is to highlight our respective indigenous
                                         origins and celebrate the genius that we all benefit from today.

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AGRICULTURE

Native People created many of the modern ways we harvest agriculture today. The principal crops grown by Native farmers were maize, beans, and squash, including pumpkins. Sunflowers, tobacco, gourds, and plums, were also grown.

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GOVERNMENT

Native People created many of the modern governments we have today. Some were authoritarian others were democracies, but the most famous were the confederacies such as the The Iroquois who were one of the most organized people groups in history. 

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MEDICINE

Native people were the creators of modern medicine. Each Native Tribe had their own approach and can include bodywork, bone setting, midwifery, naturopathy, hydrotherapy, and botanical and nutritional medicine.

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Everyone Is African

The story of humankind began in Africa six million years ago. Through fossil records of the continent, anthropologists have been able to draw a family tree of human relatives. Of these, our species (called Homo sapiens), was the last to survive. The modern human is a global species in that we inhabit every continent.  Before we Homo sapiens first began to leave Africa some 175,000 years ago, we flourished as a species by demostrating our first evidence of modern behavior.

Excavations of the Blombos Caves near the southern tip of Africa have produced some of the earliest examples of thought and innovation, including engraved stones, bone tools, jewelry, projectile points and painting. By 40,000 years ago, our species had already migrated as far as northern Europe, eastern Asia and even crossed the seas all the way to Australia. Taking all our ideas, knowledge and skills with us. 

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First Lost Civilizations

 Akkadians 2334 - 2190 BCE

The Builders of the First Human Empire

 Amorites 2000 - 1595 BCE

The Founders of Ancient Babylon

 Canaanites 2000 - 700 BCE

Israel Before the Israelites

 Elamites 2700 - 646 BCE

Before the Dawn of Persia

 Hittites 1700 - 1200 BCE

The Founders of Anatolia

 Hyksos 1670 - 1550 BCE

The Conquerors of Egypt

 Sea People 1200 - 1178 BCE

The Masters of the Mediterranean

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cloudWords On The Wind - Wisdom Of The Fathers

“If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.” – Cheyenne Proverb

“It does not require many words to speak the truth.” – Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

“Don’t be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.” – Hopi Proverb

“Among the Indians there have been no written laws. Customs handed down from generation to generation have been the only laws to guide them. Everyone might act different from what was considered right did he choose to do so, but such acts would bring upon him the censure of the Nation…. This fear of the Nation’s censure acted as a mighty band, binding all in one social, honorable compact.” –Tecumseh, Shawnee

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” – Chief Seattle, Duwamish

“One does not sell the land people walk on.” – Crazy Horse, Lakota Sioux
“The ground on which we stand is sacred ground. It is the blood of our ancestors.” – Chief Plenty Coups, Crow

“This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take it without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things. This war has come from robbery – from the stealing of our land.” – Spotted Tail , Brulé Sioux 

“Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.” – Sioux Proverb