Título: Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Seção: Music and art
Background: The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian peoples of the Americas and their descendants. Although some indigenous peoples of the Americas were traditionally hunter-gatherers--and many, especially in the Amazon basin, still are--many groups practiced aquaculture and agriculture. The impact of their agricultural endowment to the world is a testament to their time and work in reshaping and cultivating the flora indigenous to the Americas. Although some societies depended heavily on agriculture, others practiced a mix of farming, hunting and gathering.

Conteúdo: Indigenas or pueblos indigenas ("indigenous peoples") is a common term in Spanish-speaking countries, and pueblos nativos or nativos (lit. "native peoples") may also be heard, while aborigen (aborigine) is used in Argentina, and pueblos aborigenes (aboriginal peoples) is common in Chile. The term "Amerindian" (short for "'Indians of the Americas") is used in Quebec, the Guianas, and the English-speaking Caribbean. In Brazil, indigenas or povos indigenas are common if formal-sounding designations, while indio is still the more often-heard term (the noun for the Indian nationality being indiano), and aborigene and nativo being rarely used in Amerindian-specific contexts (e.g. aborigene is usually understood as the ethnonym for Indigenous Australians). Indigenous peoples are commonly known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, which includes not only First Nations and Arctic Inuit, but also the minority population of First Nations-European mixed-race Metis people who identify culturally and ethnically with indigenous peoplehood. This is contrasted, for instance, to the American Indian-European mixed-race mestizos of Hispanic America (caboclos in Brazil) who, with their larger population (in most Latin American countries constituting either outright majorities, pluralities, or at the least large minorities), identify largely as a new ethnic group distinct from both Europeans and Indigenous Americans, but still considering themselves a subset of the European-derived Hispanic or Brazili

user: What kind of music were the Indigenous people involved in?

assistant: Native American music in North America is almost entirely monophonic, but there are notable exceptions. Traditional Native American music often centers around drumming.

user: What was their art work like?

assistant: Contributions include pottery, paintings, jewellery, weavings, sculptures, basketry, carvings, and beadwork.

user: Were the indigenous people well known for their music and art?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: What are some other important things to know about their music and art?

assistant: No remnants of pre-Columbian stringed instruments were found until archaeologists discovered a jar in Guatemala, attributed to the Maya of the Late Classic Era (600-900 CE), which

user: What happened after that?

assistant: This instrument is one of the very few stringed instruments known in the Americas prior to the introduction of European musical instruments;

user: Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?

assistant: too many artists were posing as Native Americans and Alaska Natives in order to profit from the cachet of Indigenous art in the United States,