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• Discuss the historical information relative to Naive Americans in the U.S including the associated demographic information.

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The ancestors of living Native Americans arrived in what is now the United States at least 15,000 years ago, possibly much earlier, from Asia via Beringia. A vast variety of peoples, societies and cultures subsequently developed.

The history of Native Americans in the United States began in ancient times tens of thousands of years ago with the settlement of the Americas by the Paleo-Indians.

Anthropologists and archeologists have identified and studied a wide variety of cultures that existed during this era.

Their subsequent contact with Europeans had a profound impact on their history of the people

According to the most generally accepted theory of the settlement of the Americas, migrations of humans from Eurasia to the Americas took place via Beringia, a land bridge which connected the two continents across what is now the Bering Strait.

The number and composition of the migrations is still being debated. In the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the policy of Indian Reductions resulted in the forced conversions to Catholicism of the indigenous people in northern Nueva Espana.

They had long-established spiritual and religious traditions and theological beliefs. What developed during the colonial years and since has been a syncretic Catholicism that absorbed and reflected indigenous beliefs; the religion changed in New Spain.

American Indians have played a central role in shaping the history of the nation, and they are deeply woven into the social fabric of much of American life During the last three decades of the 20th century, scholars of ethnohistory, of the new Indian history and of Native American studies forcefully demonstrated that to understand American history and the American experience, one must include American Indians.

During the American Revolution, the newly proclaimed United States competed with the British for the allegiance of Native American nations east of the Mississippi River.

Most Native Americans who joined the struggle sided with the British, based both on their trading relationships and hopes that colonial defeat would result in a halt to further colonial expansion onto Native American land.

Many native communities were divided over which side to support in the war and others wanted to remain neutral.

The first native community to sign a treaty with the new United States Government was the Lenape. For the Iroquois Confederacy, based in New York, the American Revolution resulted in civil war. The only Iroquois tribes to ally with the colonials were the Oneida and Tuscarora.

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