FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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A formal act held to honor an event or belief
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The business of farming
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Group of people originally from North America
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A custom or way of life handed down over many years
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Detailed explanation-1: -Native American, also called American Indian, Amerindian, Amerind, Indian, aboriginal American, or First Nation person, member of any of the aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, although the term often connotes only those groups whose original territories were in present-day Canada and the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -Turtle Island is a name for Earth or North America, used by some Indigenous peoples, as well as by some Indigenous rights activists. The name is based on a common North American Indigenous creation story and is in some cultures synonymous with “North America."
Detailed explanation-3: -There are 574 federally recognized Indian Nations (variously called tribes, nations, bands, pueblos, communities and native villages) in the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -The descendants of the original inhabitants of North America and South America before the arrival of white settlers from Europe, also called Indians or American Indians.
Detailed explanation-5: -American Indians-Native Americans The term “Indian, ” in reference to the original inhabitants of the American continent, is said to derive from Christopher Columbus, a 15th century boat-person. Some say he used the term because he was convinced he had arrived in “the Indies” (Asia), his intended destination.