Photos by National Museum of American History Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution, Currier & Ives, Dorothea Lange, and the U
S Army Corps of Engineers When studying the Calumet region of Illinois and Indiana, Alfred Meyer noted four stages of development as new groups occupied this land. In stage 1, __________, Native American communities made use of natural resources. A. fur trading
B. subsistence agriculture
C. conurbanization
D. commercial agriculture
Subsistence agriculture refers to that type of agriculture in which crops were grown in order to feed their own families. These crops were not grown for selling but for themselves in order to survive. At that time there were no markets where all food stuff available. They have plenty of lands where these people grow what they want to eat. They also hunt animals such as rabbit and deer etc in order to eat them.
