because they honored their dead
because the native americans had something called the spirit animal
Researchers are uncertain as to why mounds were built in the shape of birds and snakes. Some theorize that this was because the people who built such mounds had great respect for these creatures.
They didn't. You may be thinking of the mound building cultures in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys.
there are birds on Guam, but most of the native birds were killed by the brown tree snake that the US accidentally introduced. The snakes stowed away in ships' cargo brought in from other parts of the Pacific (like the Solomon islands) where the snakes are native.
Birds they were considered sacred
deer snakes turkeys birds rabbits monkeys
Yes, effigy mounds were constructed in the shape of animals and birds by Indigenous peoples in North America, particularly by the Native American cultures in the Midwest. These mounds, often found in states like Wisconsin and Ohio, served various purposes, including ceremonial, burial, and territorial markers. The shapes often reflected the spiritual significance of the animals or birds to the cultures that built them.
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There are. The coqui, birds, snakes and fish are natives of Puerto Rico.
Deer, sheep, antelope, birds, and bears were there when the native Americans were alive and few of them are alive now.
They skinned and ate them, and left the bones to the birds, or they used them as knives.
They hunted, ex fish, birds, deer and many wild life.