ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the societies of North America. It outlines the societies of South America, giving particular attention to the Maya, the Aztecs, and the Inca. Migrant Pawnees explain their beginnings this way: Long ago, ancestors migrated south. The Pawnee farmed and hunted along the Platte, Republican, and Loup rivers that interlocked parts of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado, along the outer reaches of the northern plains. Christians also have a story of a flood in the Old Testament in the Book of Genesis. The archaeological record shows Clovis hunters particularly interested in mammoths and large bison. The remains of these animals are often found at Clovis sites, along with the distinctive fluted points and other hand-worked materials. Native North America had its own history before Europeans arrived. The first Europeans to reach North America did not discover a "Garden of Eden" occupied by peoples who lived in a state of harmony and balance with nature.
