8 untold facts about Native Americans

Long before Christopher Columbus, the Americas were already inhabited by different tribes. Those indigenous American groups had a flourishing culture and amazing traditions. Though most of the information was lost, there are still a lot of curious facts about Native Americans. If you want to learn them, read the article!


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61 Comments
Luis Perez
These ethnical groups are the real original inhabitants of what is Canada and the United States of North America and as such, should be respected and given the position they deserve.
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Jul 6, 2020 6:18PM
Matthew McKechnie
Bit rude that after telling us they don't like being called native Americans you then do so through out your article
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Jul 6, 2020 5:26PM
sjenkins
It's long overdue that the "First People" of the Americas and Canada are finally getting recognized for the leaders in many areas BEFORE. the European settlers or any other race came along.
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Jul 6, 2020 4:55PM
ninakamwene
I am always respectful of other tribes since I am a Kikuyu a tribe of Kenya.
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Jul 11, 2020 2:30AM
Wayne Roberts
They have suffered tremendously through our attempts of genocide and assimilation.
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Jul 6, 2020 7:57PM
Lourdes Ayala
Many of us believe we are just THE PEOPLE.
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Jul 6, 2020 4:38PM
bobwilkinson
Empire of the Summer Moon is a book about The evolution of the horse tribes.
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Jul 9, 2020 9:22AM
Jenny Forbes
I've often read that horses were unknown in the Americas before the Europeans came. However, many of the pictures of indigenous people show them riding or using horses - presumably a skill which they could have acquired only after the Europeans came. I'd like to find out more about the arrival of horses and how the indigenous people became such skilled horsemen (and women!). More info, please.
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Jul 8, 2020 2:25AM
lhreese
I ALWAYS ADMIRED THE NATIVE INDIANS AS THEY HAVE TAKEN CARE OF PEOPLE AND PETS AND EVEN MEAT, VEGETABLES, BIRDS.....THEY NEVER KILLED MORE THAN THEY PERSONALLY NEEDED TO FEED TRIBE. THEY ALSO BLESSED GOD EVERY DAY AND THEY STILL DO. GOD BLESS THEM!!!!.
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Mar 13, 2021 8:13PM
Ilias Tsiabardas
I live in Canada and i know that they wand to be Call with their native Name (Mohawk ) and Etcetera Etcetera according to their Native Name
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Jul 6, 2020 9:34PM
kennypaugh
Reparations should DEFINITELY be given to these first nation tribes!! The slaughter of these first nation tribes by the United States government in the past just reinforces the fact that REAL AMERICANS loves their country but fears their government!! THIS IS WHY THE FOUNDING FATHERS GAVE AMERICAN CITIZENS THEIR 2ND AMENDMENT RIGHT TO PROTECT THEMSELVES NOT ONLY FROM FOREIGN INVADERS BUT DOMESTIC INVADERS INCLUDING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!!
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Oct 27, 2023 10:09PM
Gery Tillmanns
If the First Nation people don’t like to be referred to as Native Americans, why was the article written using that terminology. That’s just ignorant and shies no respect to the people of the First Nations.
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Sep 11, 2023 6:43PM
Patricia Green
Patricia Holt, and now Ron Desantis is saying Americans don’t live on stolen land. He wants to wipe out actual history in the classroom.
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Nov 20, 2022 5:56PM
dmarkc
tradjazzer, and give them casinos. No problems there.
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Nov 19, 2022 5:19PM
dmarkc
Lendus Chartrand, I'm asking.
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Nov 19, 2022 2:29PM
Steve Tingle
I have read in some Archaeological studies that even they are not now considered the First settlers of the continent, that there were others before them who they wiped out, I believe that it has been proved that some ancient burial grounds show DNA which has no relationship to the so called First Nation peoples.
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Aug 7, 2022 7:30PM
slsouthard
The American Indian in reality were actually the very first immigrants to the UNITED STATES. They migrated from Mongolia and far eastern China as well as Russia during the Ice Age traveling across the ice bridge now referred to as the Alieutian chain of Islands connecting Russia to Alaska and the American continent of Canada and today’s United States. They are truly the ORIGINAL settlers of the American Continent.
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May 7, 2022 5:59PM
Scott
I’m 1/16 Cherokee and very proud of my heritage. Though, my Mum always said, “I’d lose it all if I had a nose bleed”. Lol
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May 2, 2022 7:19PM
Calvin Davis
I never really liked being called black. When I was a young kid watching Cowboys and Indian movies I always wanted the Indians to win, I did not find out till later on in life that on my mom side of the family they were Choctaw and on my father side my great grandfather was black feet. I am being called black so I’ll except it and not argue with people
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Apr 30, 2022 4:46PM
Marguerite LaHaye
The First Nations had thriving cultures and a vast knowledge of plant-based medicines during a time when Europeans physicians were still bleeding their patients as a supposed remedy for a variety of common ailments. Unfortunately, neither European nor Indigenous medicines were effective in combatting smallpox, which killed millions of First Nations peoples and left the survivors defenceless against the onslaught of European colonization.
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Apr 26, 2022 2:59PM
Lendus Chartrand
Garry Harbottle, we had horses. What's wrong with you?
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Aug 19, 2021 5:42PM
Lendus Chartrand
\\ZaiN//, maybe ask one of us, just a thought.
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Aug 19, 2021 5:41PM
Maureen Henderson
I agree with you. David Heinz,
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May 5, 2021 4:22PM
Maureen Henderson
I agree.lhreese,
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May 5, 2021 4:21PM
Garry Harbottle
No horses to ride before the Spanish brought them over. Also no guns for sharpshooters before Europeans brought them to America! Yes, their cultures and medicines are very important, but don’t confuse yesterday with today.
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Mar 19, 2021 3:42PM

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