--- title: Native peoples of North America — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Native peoples of North America», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: People first came to the Americas at least 15,000 years ago, probably from Asia during the Ice Age, across a land bridge or along the coas --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / Native peoples of North America # Native peoples of North America Lesson 17 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 21 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/0/) — People first came to the Americas at least 15,000 years ago, probably from Asia during the Ice Age, across a land bridge or along the coast by boat. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/1/) — When Europeans arrived much later, tens of millions of people already lived there. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/2/) — There was no single Native American way of life, just as there is no single European one. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/3/) — Think of how different Norway, Spain and Greece are: the Inuit of the Arctic, the Lakota of the Plains and the Pueblo peoples of the desert were just as different. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/4/) — Some hunted bison, some farmed corn, beans and squash, some built towns of stone in cliffs, and at Cahokia a city with huge earth mounds. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/5/) — The Haudenosaunee nations joined in a league of peace to settle quarrels by talking. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/6/) — Europeans brought diseases like smallpox that killed very many people, and later settlers pushed Native nations off their lands with wars and broken treaties. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/7/) — But this is not only the past: millions of Native people live today, keeping their languages and nations alive. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/8/) — People first came to the Americas at least 15,000 years ago, probably from Asia across a land bridge or along the coast by boat during the Ice Age. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/9/) — The Americas were not empty when Europeans arrived; tens of millions of people lived there. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/10/) — Native peoples of North America were many nations with hundreds of languages, such as the Cherokee, Navajo, Lakota, Haudenosaunee, Inuit and Cree. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/11/) — Feathered headdresses and tipis belonged to some Plains peoples, not to all Native Americans. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/12/) — On the Great Plains nations such as the Lakota followed huge herds of bison, using almost every part for food, clothing, tools and tipi covers, and after the Spanish brought horses they became expert riders. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/13/) — Many eastern nations farmed corn, beans and squash together, called the Three Sisters, because the plants help each other grow; corn, first grown in the Americas, now feeds people all over the world. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/14/) — Five, later six, nations, including the Mohawk and Seneca, formed the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a league of peace with a council to settle quarrels by talking. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/15/) — In the dry Southwest the Ancestral Puebloans built houses of stone and adobe in cliffs and canyons, like Mesa Verde, farmed by carefully collecting the little rain that fell, and Pueblo peoples still live there today. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/16/) — Near today's St Louis stood Cahokia, a city of perhaps 15,000 people about 900 years ago, with huge earth mounds. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/17/) — The Inuit of the Arctic hunted seals and whales, used kayaks and dog sleds, and in winter some built snow houses called igloos, but most did not live in igloos all year; they also lived in houses of stone, turf and skins. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/18/) — Europeans brought diseases like smallpox that Native peoples had never met, and very many died, often before they ever saw a European, as the illness spread ahead from village to village. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/19/) — As settlers spread west, many Native nations were pushed off their lands by wars and broken treaties; on the Trail of Tears in the 1830s the Cherokee were forced to walk far west, and thousands died. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/20/) — Millions of Native people live in the USA and Canada today, keeping their languages, ceremonies and nations alive, and many nations have their own governments. - ← previous: [Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/) - next →: [The Maya](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)