THE FIRST AMERICANS

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

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ANCIENT, ASIA, COLUMBUS, CULTURE, EUROPEANS, FISHERMEN, FRIENDLY, GOVERNMENT, INUIT, LAND, LANGUAGE, NATIVE, PARTS, RESERVATIONS, SETTLERS, SIGN,THOUSAND, TRADITIONAL, TRIBES, WARS
Thirty years ago the first Americans travelled across the ice from to Alaska. Some of them stayed and became the people or the Eskimos and some of them moved to different of the North and South America. They were , farmers and hunters. When arrived in the Caribbean, he thought he was in India and called the Americans Indians.
When the first arrived there were about 300 Indian . Each tribe had a different and way of life. They could understand each other by special language.
When the first came, the Native Americans lived in homes. At the beginning they were to their new neighbours, but when settlers wanted to take their they fought back. There were many between the Indians and the settlers. Finally the settlers won. The US forced the Native Americans to live on .
Nowadays many Native Americans that live on reservations keep to their traditions and their is growing again.