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 * Questions || Anwser ||
 * What type of language did the first Indians have?| || tamil ||
 * Did the first Indians have any pets? || dogs, ||
 * Where did most of the Indians live? || continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii ||
 * Did they hunt for there food? Or did they fish? || hunted for deer, bear, and fished. Beaver was another important animal for them as well, ||
 * Did they have special dances? || rain dace when thehy have a dry summer, ||
 * How did they dress? || women wore one very long piece of cloth called a sari, that they wrapped around themselves in different ways. different tribes had different typical clothing styles. All their clothes were made by hand, and they were usually decorated with designs, beadwork, and other art, so no two people in the tribe had the same dress ||
 * Did they ride horses or did they walk? || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**The Indians got their first horses from the Spanish. When the Spanish explorers Coronado and DeSoto came into America they brought horses with them. This was in the year of 1540. Some horses got away and went wild. But, the Indians did not seem to have done much with these wild horses. They did not start to ride or use horses until much later.** ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Did they make pots made of clay or rugs? || North and South American continents had a wide variety of pottery traditions. However, there is no evidence that a Native American potter ever invented the pottery wheel. Because of this, all known Pre-Columbian American pottery was made entirely by hand, using a number of traditional techniques. These include sculptural modeling, press molding, coiling, and paddling. Functional pottery objects were produced by many cultures, as were figurines, masks, and ritual items. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Meaning of names? || An Indian tribe is composed of a number of kinship groups or clans. To each one of these, speaking generally, belongs the hereditary duty of performing a certain rite and also the care of the sacred objects connected with that rite, The names that belong to the second class are those which are taken by an adult to mark an achievement. This must be an act in which he has shown special ability or courage in successfully defending his people from danger. Such a name, therefore, marks an epoch in a man's life and is strictly personal to the man, and, to a degree, indicative of his character or attainments ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">where did Michigan Indians first live? || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The First People entered the area we call Michigan over 10,000 years ago. They hunted and fished for thousands of years. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who were the first Indians? || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cherokee, Algonquin, Menominee, Chippewa, Ottawa, sauk, fox, Miami, Kickapoo, ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What country do most native Americans live in? || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The u.s. ||
 * What were there hair styles like? || The most common Native American women's hairstyles were a simple **//flowing//** hairstyle (either with or without bangs) or long **//braids//** (either two braids or one single braid.) Some women painted horizontal stripes on their hair or dyed the center part a bright color. In the southeast, many women from tribes such as the Creek and Chickasaw wore their hair on top of their heads in **//buns//** or **//topknots//**. In the southwest, women from the Navajo and Pueblo tribes often wore their hair tied behind their heads in a kind of twist best known as a **//chongo//** (the Pueblo word for this hairstyle.) ||
 * How did the kids live? || go to school and help around the house. Many Mohawk children like to go hunting and fishing with their fathers. In the past, Indian kids had more chores and less time to play, just like early colonial children. But Mohawk children did have toys and games. Mohawk girls liked to play with cornhusk dolls, and boys played a game where they tried to throw a dart through a moving hoop. Lacrosse was also a popular sport among Mohawk boys as it was among adult men. Like many Native Americans, Mohawk mothers traditionally carried their babies in [|cradleboards] on their backs--a custom many American parents have [|adopted]. ||
 * Did native american kids go to school? || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">yes native americans did go to school back then there is a book that will prove native americans did infact go to school the book is called My heart is on the ground: the diary of Nannie Little Rose by Ann Rinaldi from the Dear America series <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Before the invasion of the Europeans, American Indian children learned from games, stories, and life in general. Every activity just about was designed to teach the children all they needed to know. It was a highly effective method of teaching. ||
 * Did native american kids go to school? || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">yes native americans did go to school back then there is a book that will prove native americans did infact go to school the book is called My heart is on the ground: the diary of Nannie Little Rose by Ann Rinaldi from the Dear America series <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Before the invasion of the Europeans, American Indian children learned from games, stories, and life in general. Every activity just about was designed to teach the children all they needed to know. It was a highly effective method of teaching. ||