Interesting Facts About Native Amer

Interesting Facts About Native American Indians
The term "Indian" originated with Christopher Columbus. He thought that he had reached the East Indies when he landed in America and therefore named the inhabitants Indians.
European settlers to America brought with them diseases to which the Native Americans had no resistance. These diseases killed millions of Indians and resulted in a huge population decline.
Europeans brought many animals to the Americas which the indigenous people had never seen, including cattle, sheep, and pigs.
Horses had been hunted to extinction by the early settlers of the Americas thousands of years before the Europeans arrived. The reintroduction of the horse by the Europeans had an incredible impact on the American Indians. They utilized the horse for travel, hunting, and warfare.
Numerous conflicts occurred between the American Indians and European settlers before the American Revolutionary War , and after the Revolution between the Native Americans and the U.S. government. These conflicts have been named the American Indian Wars.
In 1890 the last major battle between Native American Indians and U.S. soldiers occurred. It was called the Battle of Wounded Knee and occurred near the Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Approximately three hundred Sioux Indians were slaughtered.
In 1838 one of the most horrible events in American history occurred. This event was a forced relocation of thousands of Indians from their homelands to areas west of the Mississippi River. This march, named the "Trail of Tears", resulted in the death of thousands of Native Americans from numerous tribes including the Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw. Most of the deaths were the result of disease and exposure to the extremely cold weather.
Benjamin Franklin learned a lot about democracy by observing the Iroquois Indians. The Iroquois had a chief who ruled only as long as the tribes supported his decisions. The Iroquois were a union of several tribes that had in place limits to power held in place by checks and balances, one of the corner stones of democracy for the United States of America.
American Indians have appeared on many U.S. coins including the Buffalo nickel (Indian Head nickel) minted between 1913 and 1938 and more recently the Sacagawea dollar which features the famous Indian women who served as a guide on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

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Fakta menarik tentang orang Indian Amerika asliIstilah "India" berasal dari Christopher Columbus. Ia berpikir bahwa ia telah mencapai Hindia Timur ketika ia mendarat di Amerika dan bernama karena itu penduduk India.Pemukim Eropa ke Amerika membawa dengan mereka penyakit yang penduduk asli Amerika telah ada perlawanan. Penyakit ini membunuh jutaan orang India dan mengakibatkan penurunan penduduk yang besar.Eropa membawa banyak hewan ke Amerika yang masyarakat adat belum pernah melihat, termasuk sapi, domba dan babi.Kuda telah diburu sampai kepunahannya oleh pemukim awal Amerika ribuan tahun sebelum kedatangan bangsa Eropa. Reintroduksi kuda oleh bangsa Eropa memiliki dampak luar biasa pada orang Indian Amerika. Mereka dimanfaatkan kuda untuk perjalanan, berburu, dan perang.Berbagai konflik terjadi antara orang Indian Amerika dan pemukim Eropa sebelum Perang Revolusi Amerika, dan setelah revolusi antara penduduk asli Amerika dan pemerintah AS. Konflik ini telah bernama perang American Indian.Pada tahun 1890 pertempuran besar terakhir antara penduduk asli Indian Amerika dan tentara AS terjadi. Itu disebut pertempuran Wounded lutut dan terjadi dekat Sungai lutut Wounded di South Dakota. Sekitar tiga ratus Sioux Indian dibantai.Pada tahun 1838 salah satu peristiwa paling mengerikan dalam sejarah Amerika terjadi. Acara ini adalah relokasi paksa dari ribuan orang-orang India dari tanah air mereka ke daerah-daerah sebelah barat Sungai Mississippi. Maret ini, bernama "Trail of Tears", mengakibatkan kematian ribuan penduduk asli Amerika dari berbagai suku termasuk Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, dan Chickasaw. Sebagian besar kematian adalah hasil dari penyakit dan terpapar cuaca sangat dingin.Benjamin Franklin belajar banyak tentang demokrasi dengan mengamati Iroquois India. Iroquois memiliki kepala yang memerintah saja asalkan suku mendukung keputusan. Iroquois adalah gabungan dari beberapa suku-suku itu di tempat batas kekuasaan yang diadakan di tempat oleh Check and balances, sebuah batu penjuru yang demokrasi untuk Amerika Serikat.Indian Amerika telah muncul di banyak U.S. koin termasuk nikel Buffalo (Indian Head nikel) dicetak antara 1913 dan 1938 dan lebih baru-baru ini Sacagawea dolar yang menampilkan para wanita India terkenal yang menjabat sebagai panduan tentang Lewis dan Clark ekspedisi.