ese Paleo-Indians. In small scale, non-food producing societies like these, subsistence activities might have been allocated by gender and age. For physiological reasons, adult women were mostly responsible for looking after the children, and becoming involved in activities that did not take place too near the home. Yet in their own male-dominated society, the women did, although menial, critically important everyday tasks such as cooking, cleaning the meat, and collecting stationary resources such as plants and firewood.
Another secret of survival was their policy of sharing. No matter who harvested a plant or killed an animal, everyone received a share. Great honour was given to the one who provided best for his fellow Indians, and food hoarding was a public and criminal offence. Because of this communal attitude, they came into conflict with the colonists whose attitude reflected that of greed and a lust for property and land.
Christopher Columbus who mistakenly believed the country to be part of the India's found in Asia, first app
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