Why did transculturalization seem to operate only in one direction? Whites who had lived for a time with Indians almost never wanted to leave. But al… - Peter Farb

The Hopewell fused elements of the Adena, the Archaic, and other Woodland patterns of life. Thus, it cannot technically be identified as a culture. ...Rather, the Hopewell people were an amalgam of many societies whose customs varied greatly, but who were bound together by... a cult of the dead and a trade bond... a network of trade linked widely separated areas of the continent.

If you read Peter Farb's book, Man's Rise of Civilization, he goes through all these different cultures at first contact, and they very often figure out in very different ways, but typically the things that were in common among them, were that the idea of the accumulation of private property beyond your needs was considered a mental illness.

At the time of the Europeans discovery of North America, the American Indians already cultivated a wider variety of plants than did the Europeans.