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The human history of the United States begins with Native Americans. After stewarding the land for generations, Indigenous peoples introduced Europeans to “new food plants, new drugs, new dyes, tobacco, unheard-of languages, novel modes of life,” and much more, as the historian A. Irving Hallowell wrote back in 1957. Here’s a look at just a few of the ways Indigenous peoples impacted American culture.