Native American history

People lived in the United States long before the arrival of ____________________ ____________________ and the Europeans . These people and cultures are called ____________________ ____________________ . The first people to live in a land are called ____________________ people . This means they are the original settlers . The Native Americans are the indigenous people and culture of the ____________________ ____________________ .
Sometimes these people are referred to as ____________________ or American Indians . This is because when Columbus had first landed in America , he thought he had sailed all the way to the country of ____________________ . He called the locals Indians and the name stuck for some time .
Native ____________________ lived throughout North and South America . In the United States there were Native Americans in Alaska , Hawaii and the mainland in the United States . Different tribes and cultures lived in different areas . In the middle of the ____________________ lived the Plains Indians , including tribes such as the Comanche and Arapaho . In the southeast area of the country ____________________ tribes such as the Cherokee and the Seminole .
The Native Americans were grouped into ____________________ or nations usually based on the area they lived in and their culture such as their religion , customs and language . Sometimes smaller tribes were part of a bigger tribe or ____________________ . As far as historians can tell , these tribes were fairly ____________________ prior to the arrival of Columbus and the Europeans . There were ____________________ of tribes throughout the United States when Columbus first arrived . Many of them are well - known such as the Cherokee , Apache , and the ____________________ .
The Native Americans did ____________________ write down or record their history , so we have to find out about their history in other ways . Most of what we know about Native Americans comes from the recordings of the first ____________________ . We can also learn about the ____________________ and ____________________ of the tribes through stories that have been passed down within the tribes from generation to generation . The tradition of passing traditions down through ____________________ story telling was an important part of Native American culture .
Today , some of the descendants of the original American Indians live on ____________________ . These are areas of land set aside especially for the Native Americans . The placement of the Native Americans on reservations by the US government some people consider to be a " ____________________ " part of the United States' history . The tribes ____________________ not move to the reservations by choice . Many were forced to go after large parts of their tribes had been ____________________ by the Europeans . In many cases , the reservations were located on parts of land that are very ____________________ and had little to no value because they didn't have any resources . Today only ____________________ of Native Americans still live on reservations and in many cases they live in poverty surviving on the money they make from the casinos they built and ____________________ .

Native Americans in New Mexico / Santa Fe :
In the state of New Mexico there were 23 tribes in total , but the majority belonged to the Apache and Navajo tribes . Nowadays , in the Santa Fe area , there are ____________________ tribes of Native Americans . The communities of these tribes are referred to as ____________________ . They have lived in the area for over ____________________ , ____________________ ____________________ . The pueblos ____________________ visitors and much can be ____________________ about Native American culture visiting the pueblos , especially on days with special feasts and ____________________ . Each tribe has its own ____________________ , traditions , ceremonies and is considered a state . The Santa Fe market that the tribes participate in during the month of ____________________ is the world's ____________________ Native American Indian art ____________________ .