They practiced subsistence farming to provide just enough food for themselves
The Ten Commandments influenced life today in that they influenced aspects of today’s legal and political systems, it influenced it because they serve as indications of how people should behave to maintain harmonious relationships in society.
Americans tried to civilize the Native Americans through the Washington Administration who embraced a program to civilize native people, transforming Indians from tribal peoples into individuals who could be easily adopt the ways of another culture into American Society. The program promotes commercial agriculture, Christianity, an alteration in the gender-based divisions of labor among Indians and most importantly private ownership of land.
