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The Indigenous people from the United States of America was earlier in the Precambrian called the American Indians, but today you can also call them “Native Americans”. They were the indigenous people from North America who emigrated from Asia some 13,000 years ago. More then 6 millions of people are watching themselves as the Native Americans today, although it’s just 1, 8 million people that is members of the most important one was the hortribes. Today, they in cities and places called Indian reservations (an area of a land that is administered by a Native American.)

Many years ago, it was possible to find Native Americans in the countries Canada and Alaska that was laying in the north to the Andes Mountains in the south, that is the longest and one of the highest mountain in the whole world. Many of the Native Americans had many different stories, cultures and languages. Most of the Native Americans lived by eating fish, but some of them were also just eating meet from their hunting. The Native people from America had many animals, but the se. The horses were especially important to the Indians who lived in the prairies, because they had to travel far away when they were going to fetch water for their family. The horses didn’t come until 1519, together with the Europeans.



The Europeans came hundreds of years ago, together with other people with different cultures and lifestyles. That happened because the indigenous people of America went to the world section of the Siberian, and over a land bridge called the Salvage strait (a strait that separates Russia in Asia from Alaska in America.) After a while, the world section was inhabited by the Europeans.

Since the Native Americans were Indians that respected the nature in a very good way and said that no one owned the earth, the meeting with the Europeans became really hard for them. The Native Americans had always been people that knew how they were going to take care of the earth and all the animals that lived besides them. Another thing they thought was that no one could just go forward and destroy all the good things that had been made. The Europeans had many different bad views o n the earth in relation to what the Native Americans had.

When the white people inhabited the Native American’s world section, they were one of the reasons why many Indians died because they were violent and started a war between the two folk groups. They also brought many diseases with them, like chicken pox and measles. The Europeans were people that was used to those diseases, but the Native Americans didn’t have that immunity and couldn’t bear it. Another bad thing the Europeans brought with themselves was alcohol, and many of the Native Americans started to turn their faces into alcoholism. To have a life that was influenced by alcohol was either good for them, or their society. The Native American’s everyday life was now characterized with much blood and wars because of the major misunderstandings and conflicts between themselves and the Europeans.

Since the Europeans had “stolen” the Native Americans residence, they were forced into reservations at the end of the nineteen century. They lost the livelihood and their important resources. All the things they had made were now destroyed because of the white people. In 1492 came the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus who had discovered America. The Native Americans liked him, and though he was a really good man. Columbus thought the same about them too, but after a while he discovered that he could do whatever he wanted with them. He wanted to make them to his own slaves, because they had so much knowledge and was incredibly strong. Columbus was also the leader of the European Colonization of North – and South America. When the Native Americans country was colonized, their culture was changed. It was not just the Native American’s culture, but also the other indigenous people in South America. The colonization led to many years with conflicts between the societies.

Before Columbus reached the place where the Native Americans lived, there were 200 – 300.000 natives who could call North America their home. Many years later, it was just 500 Indians left and they all lived as Columbus’ slaves.

Today, there are many Native Americans who still speak their home language, even if many of them are living in cities and not in their traditional home country. Many people may think that the Indians from North America (who is now Canada and the United States) are living a great life today without any fears and so on, but they still have to face many different issues and many of them are still living poor. On the other side, there are actually not just poor Native Americans, because many of them have really good jobs as doctors and farmers. In the United States today, there are about 2 million people that is Native Americans and in Canada there are about 1 million. They also have about 150 different languages.

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