Technology
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Technology, Inventions, Social Science
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: North America
Article abstract: Technology has had a powerful impact on Native Americans, resulting in both improvement and deterioration of their quality of life
There is an old story about a group of Quechan Indians who were being brought to Mexico City by train to be wined and dined by politicians who wanted to buy some of their land. As the locomotive left the station, one of the Quechan, Yellow Feather, pointed at a nearby bluff and said something calmly in his native tongue that the Mexicans who were with them did not understand. Soon passing an enormous cactus, again...
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