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Jump Into Research: The Overview
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The following encyclopedia articles will give you a broad overview of the Native American people. Look for the word CITE, which will show you how to give the author's credit for any information you use from the articles.
The indigenous people of North America are often called Native Americans—but they are not just one group of people. Before Europeans arrived in North America, tens of millions of Native Americans lived on the continent. They spoke more than a thousand languages and had many diverse cultures. However, just a few years after the arrival of Europeans, about 90 percent of the Native Americans died from diseases such as smallpox, which they had no prior exposure to and therefore no immunity against. Following that, the Native Americans suffered through centuries of conflict with the Europeans and their descendants. In the twentieth century many indigenous activists fought for civil rights and greater recognition of Native American cultures. In the twenty-first century many Native American groups in the United States and Canada have special treaty rights and recognition as sovereign tribes, bands, or nations.
The people now known as Indians or Native Americans were the first people to live in the Americas. They had been living there for thousands of years before any Europeans arrived.
This article splits North and South America into different regions and describes the different people that lived in all the different regions before the Europeans arrived.
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This website looks specifically at Ohio and the different people that lived in the region before Europeans arrived.
This website offers a tribal directory of the websites and contact information for Native American tribes across the country.
As explorers sought to colonize their land, Native Americans responded in various stages, from cooperation to indignation to revolt.
What was life like in North America before Europeans arrived? In this video, Kim explores how different environmental factors in North America shaped a variety of Native American societies.
This page contains links to American history resources relating to Native Americans.
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