Encounters with Europeans Wampum belts, made of coloured shells sewn together, were exchanged by native tribes after a treaty was agreed to. A woman of the Winnebago tribe of Wisconsin. In the 1860s, people of this tribe were moved to Nebraska Names of native tribes are often given to things unconnected with them: Dakota (an aeroplane), Cherokee (a jeep), Pontiac (a car), Mohawk (a haircut)! Different terms are used in English for the native peoples of the ‘New World’ aborigine – native people of Australia (in Latin, ab = from, origine = the beginning) Aboriginal – adjective, often misused as a noun American Indian/Amerind/Amerindian – native peoples of North and South America and the Caribbean First Nations peoples – the organised native groups recognised by the Canadian government (the Indians Act of used the term ‘bands’ but from the 1980s the word ‘nations’ is used) indigenous people – people belonging naturally to a place native American – the indigenous people of the Americas (this is the term now commonly used) ‘ Red Indian’ – the brown-complexioned people whose land Columbus mistook for India *The Hopis are a native tribe who now live near California.
It was indicated on the stone tablets that the Hopis* had that the first brothers and sisters that would come back to them would come as turtles across the land. They would be human beings, but they would come as turtles. So when the time came close the Hopis were at a special village to welcome the turtles that would come across the land and they got up in the morning and looked out at the sunrise. They looked out across the desert and they saw the Spanish Conquistadores coming, covered in armour, like turtles across the land.
So this was them. So they went out to the Spanish man and they extended their hand hoping for the handshake but into the hand the Spanish man dropped a trinket. And so word spread throughout North America that there was going to be a hard time, that maybe some of the brothers and sisters had