Did Woodland period Native Americans seek/value gold prior to European Colonization?
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Before European contact, copper and not gold "overwhelmingly predominates the metallurgical landscape," in the Eastern Woodlands.
That doesn't mean gold was absolutely absent and unknown however. Apparently the following article has some information on gold on pages 3-5 but I do not have access to it:
Halsey, J. (1996). "Without forge or crucible: Aboriginal native American use of metals and metallic ores in the Eastern Woodlands." The Michigan Archaeologist, 14(1), 1–58
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