文档介绍：Learn about . . .
A Learning and Activity Book
Color your own guide to the Indians that once roamed Texas.
Text and Editorial Direction by
Zappler
Art Director
Elena T. Ivy
Consulting Editor
Juliann Pool
© 1996 Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
4200 Smith School Road
Austin, Texas 78744
PWD BK P4000-016 5/96
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Another "Learn about Texas" publication from
TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE PRESS
ISBN- 885696-02-7
Who are "Texas Indians"?
When we talk about Texas Indians, we mean
all the different sorts of Native Americans
who have ever lived, and presently live, in
the part of North America called Texas.
“Native Americans,” in turn, are all the
descendants, past and present, of the first
people to inhabit North America, Central
America, South America and the Caribbean
Islands.
The first person to call Native Americans
“Indians” was Christopher Columbus. He did
this by mistake, since he thought he had
landed on one of the islands east of India
called the Indies (or East Indies). Actually, his
voyage across the Atlantic had brought him to
one of the islands off the coast of Central
America, now called the West Indies. Only
later did Columbus realize that he had
discovered entirely new land. However, his
mistaken name “Indians” for the inhabitants
of his new-found island was later used for all
of North and South America’s native peoples,
and is still in use.
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Journeys of the First Americans
Asia
Siberia
Bering Land
Bridge
Bering Land Bridge
Ice
Ice Sheets
North America
Texas
Caribbean
Islands
Central
America
1. Put an "X" on the world map locating the Bering Land Bridge. South
2. Put a "star" ov