I know a fair amount about Native American culture. I know for instance that the Indians have lived in North America for like 20,000 since they were nomadic people who lived in Asia and decided to follow the animals that they hunted for their livelihood. As the animals migrated the nomadic tribes followed the animals to the Americas. Indians were pretty cool, they had a lot of technology that the Europeans did not have and they did not have a lot of things the Europeans did. The Indians that the Europeans met were pretty normal Indians, there were all kinds of Indians in America. In the south the Anasazi and other cool Indians were really good at farming even though they lived in like a desert area and farming was hard. They got really good at irrigation and the Europeans were surprised about how sophisticated it was. There are still a lot of Indians left alive now but there used to be more. Lots of Indians live on reserves, that is land they the government gave them for killing all the rest of them. Indians also get to have casinos now on their reservations. They have a bunch of cool laws that say they can gamble as much as they want or something since the U.S. was so mean to them a long time ago. Native American culture is pretty cool and contains a lot of fascinating things form the Cahokia mound builders to the Pueblo to the Iroquois. Native American culture has been lost to time for some time but a lot of fascinating rituals and ceremonies are still performed by the descendants today and will probably go on to fascinate people for a long time. Indians are really cool and I wish that I could learn more about them and their culture so that when I have to type another journal about them I can put a lot more cool information in it.
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