THE AMERICAN INDIAN

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Term Paper Title	THE AMERICAN INDIAN
# of Words	444
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.78

THE AMERICAN INDIAN
     When Europeans came to this land, there were many nations already here.  On the western coasts were the Kalapooian, Chinookan, and Hokan who fished.  The great forests in the east had for years given life to the Mohawks.  On the southwest plains, the Sioux, Pawnee, and Cheyenne lived in harmony with their "little brother," the buffalo.  What are now deserts were once the farms and holy lands of the Hopi and the Navaho.  In the South lived the Creek, Pensacola, and Natchez.  Today, one can find towns and cities all over the country that are named after Indian tribes.
     The original Americans were first called "Indians" by Columbus, who sailed west in the hope that he would find India.  Indians knew a great deal about their land and felt deeply about it.  To them, the land was nit an inanimate mass of soil--it was Mother Earth, the origin of all life.  Mother Earth gave them plants to eat, food for the animals that provided meat, and materials with which to make their clothing, shelter, and medicine.  Land was not a form of personal wealth; it belonged to all living things.
     Indians did not share the new settlers' way of using land.  They did not cut down forests to clear land; they were careful not to overwork the land; they kill...

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