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About 1.6 million American Indians live in the United States today. They belong to more than 500 tribes. They are very religious people
who try to live in harmony wiht nature. For American Indians life is religion. They cannot understand why civilized nations are
destroying Mother arth ans Father Sky. Many American Indians have learned to survive in a white man´s world. There are sucsessful
Indians in well paid jobs in American companies. There are Indian teachers, lawyers, doctors, writers and sports stars. There was once
a vice-president of the United States who was part Indian.
Many of the names on Maps of the USA are Indian words: Massachusetts, Mississippi, Kansas,....Even the word "okay" may have
been borrowed from American Indians
Half of them liv in large cities like LA or San Francisco. The other half on reservations. These are special areas of land that belong to
the tribes.
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