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Article: NATIVE AMERICANS
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When Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, he thought
he had reached Asia and had landed in the East Indies. So he called
the people he found in this new land Indians. Today, we refer to Indians
as ``Native Americans.'' The ancestors of these Native Americans had
come from Asia many, many years before Columbus.
Thousands of years ago, when the Earth was in an ice age, people who
lived in northeastern Asia found their homeland growing colder and
colder. Glaciers (huge sheets of ice) were spreading over the land,
and the animals people hunted for food were being forced away. The
people also had to move, to stay near the animals. Some groups of
people ...