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Explanation:
The American Indians, also known as Native Americans, were the first people living in North America when the Europeans began to settle (or begin to live there). Although many people think about the American Indians as a homogenous1 group, or a group of all the same kinds of people, they were actually many smaller groups known as tribes3. The tribes had different languages, customs (or ways of doing things), foods, and cultures. Some of them were very large and others were very small. Only a small fraction4 (or percentage or portion) of the original tribes still exist, because many of them were destroyed by the European settlers.
Today, the U.S. government officially recognizes (or accepts and lists) 563 American Indian tribes. The Cherokee and the Navajo are the two biggest tribes. The Cherokees’ ancestral lands, or the land that belonged to their relatives many years ago, are in the area that is now the eastern and southeastern parts of the United States, especially where the states of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina are today. But as the United States grew, most of the Cherokee were forced to relocate, or made to live in a new place even though they didn’t want to. The forced relocation is called the Trail of Tears because many Cherokee died while they were going to the new lands further west. Today, about 730,000 Cherokees live in the United States, mostly in the states of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.
The Navajo are the second-biggest tribe2 of American Indians, with almost 300,000 Navajos living in the United States today. Most of them live in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. In traditional Navajo society, only women could own animals and property (or buildings or land). When people were married, the man moved into the woman’s home and the daughters inherited5 all the animals and property, meaning that the daughters got those things when the mother died. The Navajo are famous silversmiths, making jewelry6 and other things out of silver, a metal that is valuable and gray in color. The Navajo are also famous for their weaving, making beautiful red blankets and rugs7, which are small carpets or floor coverings.
问题:
Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.
Answer:
• Cherokee
• Navajo
• Sioux
• Chippewa
• Choctaw
• Pueblo
• Apache
• Iroquois
• Creek
• Blackfeet
• Seminole
• Cheyenne
• Arawak
• Shawnee
• Mohegan
• Huron
• Oneida
• Lakota
• Crow
• Teton
• Hopi
• Inuit
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1 homogenous | |
adj.同类的,同质的,纯系的 | |
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2 tribe | |
n.部落,种族,一伙人 | |
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n.部落( tribe的名词复数 );(动、植物的)族;(一)帮;大群 | |
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n.小部分,碎片;一点,一些;分数 | |
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adj.通过继承得到的,遗传的;继承权的v.继承( inherit的过去式和过去分词 );经遗传获得(品质、身体特征等)接替(责任等),继任 | |
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6 jewelry | |
n.(jewllery)(总称)珠宝 | |
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7 rugs | |
n.小块地毯( rug的名词复数 ) | |
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