Today we went over the blog/message board discussion that was due today. Then we watched a movie called "American The Story of Us."Close to 80% of the Native Americans died due to the white man disease that they brought from across the ocean.Native Americans and the white people didn't fight all the time they actually got along for example they traded.Vikings were the first ones over her in North America. They established colonies in Greenland. They reached here around the 11th century. By the 15th century all there settlements were diminished.French and Indian war started in 1754 and ended 1763. It was basically fought for who would own Canada. Great Britain won.Native Americans are said to of came over by the so called "Land Bridge" which is now the Bering Strait. Also they could of brought boats over. They came over for new hunting ground.As the Europeans came over Native Americans ended up getting their land taken away. Europeans built fences around there land. They owned up to 130 acres. Which now a days farmers own from 500-10,000 acres of land.George Bush (George W. Bush's father) declared that November be Native American culture day.Native Americans never had facial hair. Tribes on the west coast had facial hair. If you had a little bit of facial hair their facial hair would be plucked out.Pilgrims got here around 1620. 1607 was the first English settlement. It struggled at first then it thrived.
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