Little known facts about Native Americans

In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, did you know…

The tribes of Foxes, Saux, and Assiniboine played a game called shinny, which is where the modern sport of hockey originatedThe sequoia tree is named after the Cherokee leader Sequoyah, who among other things created a syllabary in 1821, making reading and writing within the Cherokee Nation possible.

It is estimated that as much as 60 percent of the global food supply is based on crops that originated in North America.
Ancient Indigenous people were the first to domesticate the strains of maize that produced popcorn thousands of years ago.
Historians believe corn itself was created by Indigenous farmers in southern Mexico and Guatemala 10,000 years ago.
The Navajo Nation is the largest Indian reservation in the United States, comprising about 16 million acres, or about 27,000 square miles.
As many as 500 different spoken languages were recognized by Indigenous peoples across the American continent prior to European colonization.
Native Americans were one of the main architects of Democracy. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy (also widely known as the Iroquois Confederacy), was formed by five tribal nations: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca nearly 900 years ago. It is considered one of the oldest Democracies known to historians.
The Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy – known as The Great Law of Peace – served as a model used to draft the Constitution of the United States.