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- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Economics, Social Science, Natural Resources
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: North America
Article abstract: Native Americans traded food and other utilitarian resources along established routes
All Native Americans utilized surface and subsurface resources, which, in raw or finished form, were often traded with contiguous groups or to more distant areas along established trade routes. The natural differential occurrence of resources (and related manipulative skills) was the primary basis for some exogamous marriage patterns, the maintenance of complex group trading relationships, the development of inherited trading partners, and the existence of...
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