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.