Myth or Fact

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Myth or Fact

• Americas Earliest Settlers

2
Columbus Discovered Indians in the New World.

• WRONG!

3
Columbus only named the people he found Indians
because he thought he was in the East Indies.
4
Europeans first settled the New World.

• WRONG!

5
Thousands of years before Columbus people from
Asia had traveled and settled all over America.
6
All Native Americans live in teepees.

• WRONG

7
Native Americans lived in various types of houses
8
Native Americans speak different languages

• RIGHT!

9
In the United States there are over 500 different
nations of Native Americans
10
All Native Americans wear buckskins and beads.

• WRONG!

11
Traditional clothing like languages vary from one
nation to another.
12
All Native Americans had totem poles in their
villages.

• WRONG!

13
Totem poles are a part of Native Americans that
settled the Northwest Pacific Coast.
14
Native Americans always wore feathers, headbands
and headdresses.

• WRONG!

15
Feathers have a religious meaning in most nations
and were worn only occasionally. Headdresses were
worn for special ceremonial occasions.
16
Native Americans are no more patient, stoic or
savage as any other group of people.

• RIGHT!

17
Native Americans are no more patient, stoic or
savage as any other people. They are just like
anyone else, nothing more, nothing less.
18
Thanksgiving was a celebration created by the
Pilgrims.

• WRONG!

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Eastern Native Americans celebrated the
Green-Corn Ceremony that celebrated the years
harvest. Giving thanks was very traditional in
their ceremony.
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Native Americans, Americas first citizens