The recent Alabama Frontier Days event at Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson Park gave a look at early life in Alabama, including living history camps with soldiers depicting the French colonial period at Fort Toulouse and the War of 1812 period at Fort Jackson. Indigenous peoples lived in what would become Alabama long before French or American soldiers set foot on this land. Numerous camps around the park featured demonstrators who were showing visitors what foods Native peoples would have been grown,

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Archive Africa on Instagram: "For centuries, the Hausa people have lived at the centre of one of West Africa’s great horse cultures. Long before the Sokoto Caliphate, long before colonial frontiers, Hausa city-states like Kano, Katsina, Zazzau, and Gobir developed powerful cavalry traditions that shaped warfare, trade, and ceremony across the Sahel. Horses arrived in Hausaland through ancient trans-Saharan routes, from the Maghreb, from Bornu, and from the great trade belts linking the Sahara to