The History of American Indians
When Europeans discovered the Western hemisphere, they discovered a race
of people.(1)______ called them Indians.
(1)______ I shall have something to say about
their (2)______ and early history,
(2)______ the (3)______ for them of European settlement in
the New World, the part they have played in American history,
(3)______ their
number, distribution and condition today. Most scholars believe that the
homeland of the Indians was eastern Asia. They migrate to North
America along a land (4)______ from Siberia to Alaska.
(4)______ The Indians were a (5)______people.
(5)______ They lived in (6)______, spoke many languages, and
gained their living in different ways.
(6)______ (7)______revolutionized their hunting and
warfare.
(7)______ Whiskey corrupted
them. (8)______changed the lives of some Indians.
(8)______ The Indians were under pressure to take
(9)______in the great French and British War of the eighteen century.
(9)______
The Indians made many efforts to prevent the advance of the frontier. In
(10)______,
(10)______ a great uprising against the British began under a
Michigan Indian leader.