## Metadata - Author: [[Pekka Hämäläinen]] - Full Title: Indigenous Continent - Category: #books ## Highlights - The reality of an Indigenous continent has remained obscure because European empires, and especially the United States, invested power in the state and its bureaucracy, whereas Native nations invested power in kinship. ([Location 115](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B193DJYK&location=115)) - When farmers began growing beans and squash along with maiz de ocho some fifteen hundred years ago, they created an ecologically compatible triad of crops—the “three sisters”—that revolutionized food production and diets in North America. ([Location 368](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B193DJYK&location=368))