Children of the Earth and Sky: Five Stories About Native American Children

For many thousands of years the only people in North
America were Native Americans. These were people whose
ancestors had once walked across a land bridge from Siberia
to Alaska. They lived here long before anyone arrived from
Europe.
Native Americans did not call themselves Indians. That
was only a name the explorer Christopher Columbus gave
them in 1492 because he mistakenly thought he was near
India. Actually， Native Americans didn t have any one name
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because they weren t just one group of peg~le. There were
many groups or tribes scattered across th~ continent.
These tribes lived everywhere--in the forests， the
deserts， on the plains， and by the sea. Some were always
on the move， others settled in one place.

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