The first week is done and already I feel like there some things that I thought I had a grasp of when it comes to Indigenous peoples of North American that after going this week has changed my ideas towards the subject. I found the migration theories to be very interesting and while I was aware of the land-bridge theory the other theories such as earlier migrations to areas where it was thought that people hadn't settled, for example in South America. My understanding of the different levels of political formation was mostly new knowledge to me. It's amazing to think that amongst all the diversity of the tribes that many of them used some form of political formation whether it be classified as the state, chiefdom, tribal confederacy, bands or a combination of any of the two.
I also found the "collapse" part of lecture to be very interesting as well. Hohokam, Anasczi, Cahokia where just some the the many tribes that probably diminished and it was interesting to note that while they were supposed to be collapsed, many of the peoples branched off to form other tribes that we currently know such as the Osage, Omaha, Hopi, Zuni, Pueblos. It was even more interesting to learn that the decline of each of these three major civilizations could all be tied together through environmental aspects such as drought and climate change.
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I also found the "collapse" part of the lecture interesting, particularly the idea that the climate could have such an impact on one's way of life.
i also felt that we need to explore this climate change situation alot more carefully. I feel that it was because of this that many Native Americans were forced to leave their ancestrial lands in search of a different means to sustain their livelihoods.
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