There once was a proud race of very spiritual people that were later known to us as Native

Americans. Native American people were indigenous to the country we now refer to as the United

States of America. The Native American people will later be called the American Indian. There is

documentation to show Indians have inhabited North America as far back as 150000 B.C.

Native Americans are a culture of proud spiritual nations with strong values and heritage. They were

once free to wonder vast lands in a quest of survival without boundaries, regulations, and politics as

we know it . Native American people were broken up between tribes, bands and rancherias each with

various beliefs, needs, demographics and characteristics. There was a sacred prophecy told

throughout the land of the arrival of different people that would bring disease, sickness and death to

the native people. In 1492 the prophecy began to show true. Christopher Columbus reports of a new

world began the introduction of European colonization “white man” to this native land. The

introduction of the white man to America would have lasting effect on every Native American

throughout history. From the first encounters to present day Indians, life would forever be changed.

One of the first European descriptions of the New World and the people who inhabit it was

written in a letter to Luis de Sant Angel, Tresurer of Aragon. In this letter Columbus, C. (1493) writes

I found no towns nor villages on the sea-coast, except a few small settlements, where it was impossible to speak to the people, because they fled at once, I continued the said route, thinking I could not fail to see some great cities or towns; and finding at the end of many leagues that nothing new appeared, and that the coast led northward, contrary to my wish, because the winter had