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How are there so many different tribes?

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See a map of all of the tribes in Northern California

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See a map of all of the tribes in Northern California

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Native American also known as Americans Indians. They are the people settle in the land we known today as America, before Christopher Columbus discovered this land and called this America.

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Why they have such intricate designs on their baskets and clothing

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Why they have such intricate designs on their baskets and clothing

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There are numerous tribes

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How many tribes are there in the United States?

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How many tribes are there in the United States?

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I would love to know more about each tribe

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I would love to know more about each tribe

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Encyclopedia of American Indian History and Culture book

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Encyclopedia of American Indian History and Culture book

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American Indian customs, stories, and history come to life in this important and authoritative reference, artfully designed and packaged for kids and students.
More than 160 tribes are featured in this outstanding new encyclopedia, which presents a comprehensive overview of the history of North America's Native peoples. From the Apache to the Zuni, readers will learn about each tribe's history, traditions, and culture, including the impact of European expansion across the land and how tribes live today. Features include maps of ancestral lands; timelines of important dates and events; fact boxes for each tribe; bios of influential American Indians such as Sitting Bull; sidebars on daily life, homes, food, clothing, jewelry, and games; Did You Know facts with photographs; and traditional Native stories. The design is compelling and colorful, packed with full-color photographs.

To help give kids the lay of the land, this reference is arranged by region, and all federally recognized tribes are included. With nothing comparable available, it is sure to be a valuable resource for kids, students, librarians, and families.

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national geographic kids encyclopedia of american indian history and culture: stories

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juvenile nonfiction / history / united states / general

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juvenile nonfiction / people & places / united states / native american

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juvenile nonfiction / reference / encyclopedias

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us geography; thanksgiving; wild west; omaha; crow; lakota; iroquois; cheyenne; apache; sioux; cherokee; pueblo; navajo; indigenous; chief; totem; buffalo; tribe; native american; powwow; american west; american history; us history; kids nonfiction; kids books; nat geo kids books; nat geo kids; american history; non fiction books for kids age 9 12; nonfiction books for ages 9 12; books for 8 year old boys; books for boys age 9 12; kids books ages 9-12; history books for kids age 9 12; books for 8 year old girls

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us geography; thanksgiving; wild west; omaha; crow; lakota; iroquois; cheyenne; apache; sioux; cherokee; pueblo; navajo; indigenous; chief; totem; buffalo; tribe; native american; powwow; american west; american history; us history; kids nonfiction; kids books; nat geo kids books; nat geo kids; non fiction books for kids age 9 12; kids books ages 9-12; books for boys age 9 12; nonfiction books for ages 9 12; books for 8 year old boys; history books for kids age 9 12; books for 8 year old girls

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juvenile nonfiction / history / united states / general

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juvenile nonfiction / people & places / united states / native american

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juvenile nonfiction / reference / encyclopedias

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National Geographic Kids Encyclopedia of American Indian History and Culture: Stories, Timelines, Maps, and More

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National Geographic Kids Encyclopedia of American Indian History and Culture: Stories, Timelines, Maps, and More [O'Brien, Cynthia] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. National Geographic Kids Encyclopedia of American Indian History and Culture: Stories, Timelines, Maps, and More

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Native Americans are religious and take pride in their culture

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Native Americans have been consistently exploited and grievously mistreated since people arrived here and stole the land for themselves.

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most of the time I am not familiar with here celebration, but I research to know!

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most of the time I am not familiar with here celebration, but I research to know!

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Many were taken from their families and forced into camps

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Many were taken from their families and forced into camps

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I would like to watch videos on the different tribes or maybe look at the National Geographic American Indian book on Amazon

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I would like to watch videos on the different tribes or maybe look at the National Geographic American Indian book on Amazon

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how was each tribe founded?

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I would like to see their traditional foods

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About how many Native American languages exist?

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About how many Native American languages exist?

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What types of food do the Maidu eat and make it!

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What types of food do the Maidu eat and make it!

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reach out to local tribes to teach us information 

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reach out to local tribes to teach us information 

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self research

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Research and taking the time do read correct information

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They are a huge part of North American History

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They are a huge part of North American History

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They have their own police departments formed by people in there own town .

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They have faced many atrocities and genocide.

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They have faced many atrocities and genocide.

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Although the US has tried to make reparations over the years, they cannot fully make up for what has been lost.

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Do they get funds from the government?

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Contact tribes and ask if they are willing to share their culture.

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Read a lot of books and other resources  about them . But, most specially, i want to see them in person and ask them personally.

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Read a lot of books and other resources  about them . But, most specially, i want to see them in person and ask them personally.

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How much of their original cultures and traditions  still exists today?

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How much of their original cultures and traditions  still exists today?

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The European settlers used cultural assimilation to strip the Native Americans of their culture.

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How many tribes were there vs how many are still alive today? In other words, how many tribes have gone extinct?

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We can research resources through the internet, read books, follow social media outlets that promote Native American heritage, etc.

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Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation's Dark Ages

It's all a bit of a blur, isn't it? That little-remembered century-1600 to 1700-that began with the founding (and foundering) of the first permanent English settlement in America, the one called Jamestown, whose endemic perils portended failure for the dream of a New World. The century that saw all the disease-ridden, barely civilized successors to Jamestown slaughtering and getting slaughtered by the Original Inhabitants, hanging on by their fingernails to some fetid coastal swampland until Pocahontas saved Thanksgiving. No, that's not right, is it? I said it was a blur.

Enter Bernard Bailyn, the greatest historian of early America alive today. Now over 90 and ensconced at Harvard for more than six decades, Bailyn has recently published another one of his epoch-making grand narrative syntheses, The Barbarous Years, casting a light on the darkness, filling in the blank canvas with what he's gleaned from what seems like every last scrap of crumbling diary page, every surviving chattel slave receipt and ship's passenger manifest of the living and dead, every fearful sermon about the Antichrist that survived in the blackened embers of the burned-out churches.

Bailyn has not painted a pretty picture. Little wonder he calls it The Barbarous Years and spares us no details of the terror, desperation, degradation and widespread torture-do you really know what being "flayed alive" means? (The skin is torn from the face and head and the prisoner is disemboweled while still alive.) And yet somehow amid the merciless massacres were elements that gave birth to the rudiments of civilization-or in Bailyn's evocative phrase, the fragile "integument of civility"-that would evolve 100 years later into a virtual Renaissance culture, a bustling string of self-governing, self-sufficient, defiantly expansionist colonies alive with an increasingly sophisticated and literate political and intellectual culture that would coalesce into the rationale for the birth of American independence. All the while shaping, and sometimes misshaping, the American character. It's a grand drama in which the glimmers of enlightenment barely survive the savagery, what Yeats called "the blood-dimmed tide," the brutal establishment of slavery, the race wars with the original inhabitants that Bailyn is not afraid to call "genocidal," the full, horrifying details of which have virtually been erased.

"In truth, I didn't think anyone sat around erasing it," Bailyn tells me when I visit him in his spacious, document-stuffed study in Harvard's Widener Library. He's a wiry, remarkably fit-looking fellow, energetically jumping out of his chair to open up a file drawer and show me copies of one of his most-prized documentary finds: the handwritten British government survey records of America-bound colonists made in the 1770s, which lists the name, origin, occupation and age of the departing, one of the few islands of hard data about who the early Americans were.

"Nobody sat around erasing this history," he says in an even tone, "but it's forgotten."

"Conveniently?" I ask.

"Yes," he agrees. "Look at the 'peaceful' Pilgrims. Our William Bradford. He goes to see the Pequot War battlefield and he is appalled. He said, 'The stink' [of heaps of dead bodies] was too much."

Bailyn is speaking of one of the early and bloodiest encounters, between our peaceful pumpkin pie-eating Pilgrims and the original inhabitants of the land they wanted to seize, the Pequots. But for Bailyn, the mercenary motive is less salient than the theological.

"The ferocity of that little war is just unbelievable," Bailyn says. "The butchering that went on cannot be explained by trying to get hold of a piece of land. They were really struggling with this central issue for them, of the advent of the Antichrist."

Suddenly, I felt a chill from the wintry New England air outside enter into the warmth of his study.

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The Shocking Savagery of America's Early History

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It's all a bit of a blur, isn't it? That little-remembered century-1600 to 1700-that began with the founding (and foundering) of the first permanent English settlement in America, the one called Jamestown, whose endemic perils portended failure for the dream of a New World.

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The Sioux People were an agricultural, settled society for the introduction of the horse to North America. After which they became nomadic, following the buffalo migration.

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When was the horse introduced to North America? Did other tribes make this change?

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Online research (continuing to study for the CSET Social Studies). Visiting Museums in the plains states.