Native Americans: Descendants Of Pre-Columbian People

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Good Morning Wikipedia today I will be talking about what I saw in your website about the Native Americans. The Native Americans are people who are the descendants of pre-Columbian people that lived in North and South America. The name Indian came from Christopher Columbus because he thought he had gotten to the East Indies so he called the people Indians and it eventually caught on with people outside of the Indies.

The Native American culture was very interesting because they thought that each person would be assigned an a spiritual animal and that when the person died it’s soul would be in the animal’s body. The Native Americans built totems because it would represent a dead

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