sedentary

Examples of sedentary in the following topics:

• Enduring Cultures

  • Many pre-Columbian societies were sedentary, such as the Pueblo peoples, Mandan, Hidatsa, and others too numerous to mention, and some established large settlements, even cities, such as Cahokia, in what is now the United States of America.
  • The Chibchas of Colombia, Valdivia of Ecuador, the Quechuas of Peru, and the Aymara of Bolivia were the four most important sedentary Amerindian groups in South America.

• Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms

  • Hunting bands became seasonally sedentary and then semi-sedentary, until between 2,500 and 1,400 BCE, when Central America was dominated by settled horticultural villages.

• Archaic Hunters and Gatherers

  • Sedentary farming within each local community during the end of the period showed variations on how each of these economies were run.

• Southwestern Culture

  • Occasionally, these peoples lived in small, semi-sedentary hamlets in open areas.

• American Indian Policy and the Trail of Tears

  • Jefferson's planned to control the American Indians by encouraging or coercing them to assume a sedentary agricultural lifestyle; by adopting such a lifestyle, they would become economically dependent on trade with white Americans and thereby willing to give up land in exchange for trade goods.