Indians of North America . North America was the home of the Indians long before Europeans came to the New World. Many centuries before the arrival of Columbus, Indians hunted, fished and planted crops in the eastern forests. They brought the bison to earth with bows and arrows on the Great Plains.
Indians fished for salmon in the rivers of British Columbia and gathered rye seeds in the Great Basin and acorns in California. Indians farmed the land in Arizona and southern Mexico. When Columbus arrived, Indians held all the territory within the great triangle formed by Panama, Alaska and Labrador. The Indians were masters of the North American continent.
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