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>To what extent alcohol was completely new etc I do not know Kind of a tricky question that is somewhat covered in my link. Alcohol was definitely brewed in th
by boomboomsubban 4y ago
>To what extent alcohol was completely new etc I do not know
Kind of a tricky question that is somewhat covered in my link. Alcohol was definitely brewed in the Americas pre-Columbus, but by the seventeenth century alcohol was largely unknown to the Natives interacting with the colonists.
- amanaplanacanal 4y agoI always wonder how much was lost in the population crash caused by the introduction of old world diseases.
- LarsDu88 4y agoTejuino is a precolonial alcoholic beverage that is still enjoyed today. It's ABV is incredibly low compared to anything you'd buy in a modern 7/11 however. The tarahumara people's have more alcoholic version called tesguino that is only drunk once per year as the preparation process is labor intensive, and the drink goes bad rather quickly
- bumby 4y agoI think your points add much needed nuance, but isn't there a possibility that both are true? I.e., both your examples may be true for Native Americans in present-day Mexico while the OP's point could be true for other groups like the Lakota at Pine Ridge. (I'm not claiming any knowledge on the subject, just questioning whether both points have to be mutually exclusive)