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10 everyday items invented by Indigenous Americans
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Two Native Americans in a canoe on a river. One sits, holding an oar. The other stands with a spear raised, ready to catch a fish. Kayak Canoe making Smiling girl at the beach with sunscreen on her nose, holding a tube of sunscreen and pointing to her face with the ocean in the background. Snow goggles Early bottle of Bayer aspirin A black cup collects white latex sap from a cut in the bark of a rubber tree, with a metal spout guiding the sap into the cup, surrounded by green leaves. Cable suspension bridge A father sits on a green couch, holding his infant in his arms and feeding the baby with a bottle in a sunlit living room. Longhouse replica
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Fishing for salmon
Indigenous Americans fishing for salmon in rivers in the Pacific Northwest.
© North Wind Picture Archives/Alamy
Kayak
An Inuit hunter preparing to throw a harpoon from his sealskin kayak while hunting...
Edward S. Curtis Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (cph 3a16196)
Canoe making
Two members of the Hassanamisco Tribe of the Nipmuc Nation, Keith Riley (right) and...
© Allan Jung/Telegram & Gazette—USA Today Network/Imagn Images
Sunscreen
Indigenous peoples of the Americas first used natural ingredients to create their...
© ArtMarie—iStock/Getty Images
Snow goggles
A pair of snow goggles carved from walrus ivory by the peoples of the Thule culture,...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2019 (2019.456.13); www.metmuseum.org
Early bottle of Bayer aspirin
Before modern-day aspirin became available, Native Americans used bark from willow...
Bayer Corporation
Rubber
A rubber tree is tapped for its milky latex.
© piggu/stock.adobe.com
Cable suspension bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is one of the world's most recognized cable...
© Nomad_Soul/stock.adobe.com
Baby bottle
A father feeding his infant with a baby bottle. Before modern production of baby...
© Jaunty Junto—DigitalVision/Getty Images
Longhouse replica
Native American interpreters demonstrating 17th-century Seneca culture in the Seneca...
© www.visitfingerlakes.com (CC BY 2.0)
Syringes
Now the norm in medicine, syringes were an early invention of Native American healers.
© Looker_Studio/stock.adobe.com
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lewis and Clark Expedition, with Sacagawea (standing), on the lower Columbia River;...
MPI—Archive Photos/Getty Images