Historical+background



=__Historical Background__ A. Stories were not written, they were spoken= =B. We do kno that the Native Americans helped the earliest Europeans with agriculture and survival.= =C. Types of stories included: songs, legends, and myths= =D. They numbered at around 7 million people living amoung the Rio Grande= =E. Divided into hundreds of different tribes, with 300 languages= =F. The important clans made up the military, political and religious leadership= =G. The geographic area of North America were divided into ten major cultural areas. These were called the Eastern Woodlands, South East, Far North, California, Great Britian, Great Plains, Northwest, Plains, Desert Southwest, and the Subaric=