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GENERAL INFORMATION The Native Americans are not one group of people or one nation, but they are many nations, just like us in Europe. The Native also American can be compared to Europe. In Europe we have Norwegians, Swedes, Italians etc. and the Native American nations are Dakotas, Mohawks, Wabenakies, Cheyenne, Oneidas etc. We can call these nations tribes. Many of these tribes or nations have their own cultures, histories and languages, just like us Norwegians and Englishmen. Native Americans are a kind of wild people, they live in the nature and provides their own food and live by the nature. They are also very spiritual people and they worship “Mother Earth”. Native Americans are not “white” but colored people, and when the Europeans first discovered America, their opinion of the Native Americans was that they were “bad guys”. They also thought that they were dangerous, unreliable, vindictive and bloodthirsty.

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