Native American Culture #1

There is much to know about Native Americans. They are a very cool culture. They have a lot of customs. The first time that the Spanish came to America the Native Americans, Indians were there to greet them.They gave them food and housed them. The Spanish, Christopher Columbus, was very rude to him. He was the one who discovered the "New World." He did not actually discover America. He announced it to the eastern side of the world. He thought he was in India and that is why the Indians are named Indians. Columbus toke the Native Americans back to Spain to be traded and this started the slave trade and all the problems that the Native American are going to go through to this day. The Native American culture was greatly influenced by the Spanish. They used to be a society that was very into themselves, they wore no clothes, the females did a lot of the work, and they were a very faithful culture. They hunted a lot of wild life in the region and grew crops to eat. The females were incredibly strong. The females would take care of the home life while the man went out to catch the food. The women would work in the fields even when they were pregnant. They would work until the day they gave birth. Then, the next day, they would be back working in the fields. This is an extreme culture that was hardened more by the Spanish. They started to kill them and the cultures began to die. On the slave trade, they Indians had horrible living courtiers. Since that time period, the Indians have had a hard time. They were once recognized as slaves. When they got over that, they were discriminated from white people. Now Native Americans are recognized as people and not animals. Indians live on reservations and they are trying to keep their culture alive. I think the Indian culture is a cool thing and we should study and it was a sad thing that Columbus started.