One of the earliest known phases in eastern North America in which corn cultivation appears to have had a role in subsistence is the Adena, which occupied the middle Ohio River Valley by about 800 bc.
Pequot, any member of a group of Algonquian-speaking North American Indians who lived in the Thames valley in what is now Connecticut, U.S. Their subsistence was based on the cultivation of corn (maize), hunting, and fishing.
Visiting anthropologists found cave-dwelling food-gatherers whose subsistence was based on the wild yam; other foods included tadpoles, frogs, small fish, crabs, grubs, palm fruit, and wild bananas.
At the same time, the subsistence was altered.
Inhabiting the western and central belt of Darfur, their parents' main subsistence was sedentary farming in the surrounding villages of AlGinaena, Kuttum, Murnei and Zalengaih.
But the tribes of Indians inhabiting this country were fierce savages, whose occupation was war, and whose subsistence was drawn chiefly from the forest.
As was normal at the time, subsistence farming was the occupation of most people.
Subsistence agriculture was the most common occupation, with 11.2% being employed in the formal economy.
Subsistence farming was the principal economic activity for 80% of households (N = 60).
Subsistence agriculture was the main livelihood of the people in the area; nearly half of them lived below the poverty line ($1 a day) and the majority had not received education beyond primary school level [ 25].
