Native Americans
Chloe Ramirez & Sofia Lindeman Back in the 1700s and the mid 1800s, the Native Americans, or Indigenous People back then were known as Indians. They were one of the first people to arrive in America. They used all of the parts of one buffalo and made what they had from the buffalo. Here are some of the things that the Native Americans used a buffalo for: food, supplies, decorations, and clothes. Native Americans lived throughout North and South America. In the United States, there were Native Americans all around the world like in Hawaii, Alaska, and the mainland of the United States. In the middle of the country lived the plains Indians, including tribes such as Comanche and Arapaho. Native Americans had different tribes and some of the names of the tribes were Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, Cherokee, Powhatan, Pequot, Lenni Lenape, Chinook, and Wampanoag. About 300 Sioux Indians were killed. According to the U.S. Bureau, the largest tribal groups in the U.S. are the Cherokee, Navajo, Chippewa (Ojibwa), Apache, Choctaw, Iroquois, Lumbee, Pueblo, and Sioux (Lakota). Native Americans used words that we use now, and I am going to name most of them. Like chia, chili, chocolate, coyote, guacamole, mesquite, peyote, shack, tamale, tomato, abalone, bayou, cannibal, Chinook, manatee, poncho, and potato. 5 Fun-Facts about Native Americans: 1. The Sequoia tree is named in honor of the Cherokee leader Sequoyah, who helped his people develop an alphabet. 2. By the time Christopher Columbus returned to the New World, European diseases had killed over two thirds of Native Americans. 3.American Indians did not receive U.S. citizenship until 1924. 4.The word “barbecue” is from the Arawakan Indian language meaning “framework of sticks”. 5.Even though they were not citizens, over 8,000 Native Americans served during WWI
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