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The first peoples of Turtle Island whose six hundred nations, ten thousand years of civilization, and unbroken sovereignty over the land beneath America's feet make them the founda tion upon which everything else was built. Native Americans — the hundreds of distinct nations, peoples, and communities whose ancestors have inhabited the North American continent for at least fifteen thousand years and by many indigenous accounts since the beginning of time itself, the First Peoples of Turtle Island whose civilizations at the moment of European contact in 1492 encompassed a human diversity of extraordinary richness, the hundreds of distinct languages belonging to dozens of unrelated language families representing a linguistic variety greater than that of the entire European continent, the agricultural civilizations of the Mississippi valley whose Cahokia metropolis at its height in 1100 CE housed a population larger than contemporary London, the desert pueblo civilizations of the Southwest whose multi-story stone architecture and sophisticated irrigation systems transformed the most arid landscapes of the continent into the settings of enduring human communities, the maritime civilizations of the Pacific Northwest whose totem poles and potlatch ceremonies expressed a social and artistic complexity of the highest order, the confederate democracies of the northeastern woodlands whose Great Law of Peace provided a model of constitutional governance that influenced the framers of the American republic, and the plains civilizations whose equestrian cultures, developed after the reintroduction of the horse in the sixteenth century, produced the warrior societies, bison hunting traditions, and ceremonial life that became the most iconic image of the American indigenous world. The Native American story — whose five hundred years since European contact encompass the catastrophic population collapse of epidemic disease that killed between fifty and ninety percent of the indigenous population of the Americas in the greatest demographic disaster in human history, the centuries of colonial warfare, forced removal, reservation confinement, boarding school assimilation, and cultural suppression that the United States and its colonial predecessors inflicted on the First Peoples in the systematic effort to extinguish indigenous sovereignty, culture, and identity, and the equally remarkable story of indigenous survival, resistance, and renaissance whose American Indian Movement, whose tribal sovereignty legal victories, whose language revitalization programs, whose cultural renewal ceremonies, and whose growing political power represent the refusal of hundreds of nations to accept the colonial verdict of their disappearance — is not a story of the past but the living present of over five million Native Americans whose tribal nations exercise sovereign governmental authority over their territories, whose languages are being taught to new generations of speakers, and whose cultures, spiritualities, and identities are as vital and as varied today as they were before the first European sail appeared on the horizon of Turtle Island. This interactive sweatshirt connects you to that foundational and living legacy with a QR code linking to the full story.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_MovementHERITAG is a purpose-driven brand that celebrates cultural diversity and awareness. Wear and share your social identity and cultural heritage with a unique collection of interactive sweatshirts that carry flags of indigenous people in the USA. Create informative and fun moments by inviting people to scan the visible QR code and learn about the diverse US population.Making products on demand instead of in bulk also helps reduce overproduction, and this quality sweatshirt will be made especially for you as soon as you place an order.Few more things to know about this product:• Scannable QR code printed on the back for an interactive and fun experience• Designed to educate about a nation's proud history milestones and rich culture• Custom print-on-demand• 50% cotton, 50% polyester• Regular fit, sturdy and warm, pre-shrunk soft-feel fabric• Double-needle stitched spandex collar, shoulders, armholes, cuffs, and hem Size guide LENGTH (inches) WIDTH (inches) S 27 20 M 28 22 L 29 24 XL 30 26 2XL 31 28 LENGTH (cm) WIDTH (cm) S 68.6 50.8 M 71.1 55.9 L 73.7 61 XL 76.2 66 2XL 78.7 71.1 Show more