Native communities throughout North America had a sense of kinship with the elements of their uni-verse and showed an enormous respect for the plants, animals, and the land in their cere
Trang 1used along the Alaskan coasts, and the famous domed
snow igloos were common in the north-central Arctic
Native communities throughout North America
had a sense of kinship with the elements of their
uni-verse and showed an enormous respect for the plants,
animals, and the land in their ceremonies and their
practices For the most part they lived with minimal
impact on their environment The mound culture, with
its ruling Great Sun, nobility, and social castes, is in
some ways an aberration Most Native communities
were egalitarian, and the individuals, notoriously
inde-pendent Father LeJeune, a French missionary on the St
Lawrence River, observed in 1634 that Indians would
not “endure in the least those who seem desirous of
assuming superiority over others.” This egalitarianism
and the ways that Native communities managed the
in-teractions and disputes between their nations through
the Iroquois Confederacy would later provide an
inspi-ration for the United States Constitution
See also Native Americans: chronologies and
peoples; migration patterns of the Americas
Further reading: Champagne, Duane, ed Chronology of
Na-tive North American History Detroit, MI: Gale Research,
1994; Hoxie, Frederick E., ed Encyclopedia of North Ameri-can Indians New York: Houghton Miffl in, 1996; Nabokov, Peter, and Robert Easton Native American Architecture Ox-ford: Oxford University Press, 1989; O’Brien, Sharon Ameri-can Tribal Governments Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989; Waldman, Carl Atlas of the North American Indian New York: Facts On File, 2000; Weatherford, Jack Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America New York:
Fawcett Columbine, 1991
Kevin Daugherty
Nebuchadnezzar I
See Babylon, later periods
Nebuchadnezzar II
(late 7th century–early 6th century b.c.e.) emperor
The reputation of Nebuchadnezzar II abounds in the an-cient world, as he represents one of the most famous of the Near Eastern monarchs No fewer than four books
of the Jewish scriptures, 10 rabbinic commentaries, six
298 Nebuchadnezzar I
Native Americans developed villages or pueblos, like those found in this ancient Anasazi village in Mesa Verde, Colorado These clusters of dwellings were stacked one upon another and could include 500 or more rooms