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Native Americans, a lost culture?
The first Americans
When Europeans started to settle on the east coast of America at the beginning of the 17th century, there were already over a million Native Americans living on the continent in over 600 tribes.
The tribes had very different ways of life depending on where they lived. For example, in Mexico, the peaceful Pueblo tribes lived in villages and were America’s first farmers. Their neighbours, the Apaches, were nomadic hunters and warriors, and moved across the deserts and mountains of the region which is now called Texas. The Iroquois were a group of tribes – a “nation” – that lived in the forests of north-east America. They lived in permanent villages and were skilful hunters and fishermen, using canoes to carry them along the rivers and lakes. Another famous nation – the Sioux – lived on the vast plains of grass between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. They depended on buffalo for food, shelter and clothes and followed them across the plains, taking their tents, or “tepees” with them. Like the Apaches, they too were warriors and often used to fight and steal from other tribes.
