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For many Indigenous peoples of North America, nature is a great and all-giving entity. The most important teacher for children was nature. This idea is embedded even in cradleboards in which children were placed after they were born. Such cradleboards allowing children to show only their faces helped them to develop the ability to observe their surroundings. Even as newborn babies, children were encouraged to look out into nature, observe the world around them, and feel its energy.