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Native American Beliefs

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It is believed that the ancestors of the modern Native Americans came over from Asia to what is now known as Alaska more than 12,000 years ago. The Native Americans were named “Indians” by Christopher Columbus around the year 1492. Columbus was sailing the Atlantic Ocean to India, when he reached an island near Florida he thought he reached the coast of India and named the people he met there Indians.

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