Indigenous people
A term for groups who inhabited a region before the arrival of outside settlers, together with their descendants. They often maintain distinct languages, cultures, and traditional relationships to their lands.
Among 19th-century Great Plains Indigenous people, 'Counting coup' was a War custom: touching a living enemy with a hand or stick and letting him live — not killing him — counted as the bravest act. Shorter weapons meant more honor, since they forced fighters closer.
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Indigenous people of eastern Greenland carved wood into 3D shapes mimicking coastlines, creating 'Ammassalik maps.' Since paper maps were impossible to read in the snow, these tactile maps let navigators feel the terrain by touch alone.
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The world's first sunglasses were invented about 2,000 years ago by Arctic indigenous people. They carved animal bones or ivory to fit the face with thin slits, preventing snow blindness from UV rays reflected off the snow.
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