What are the Most Common Indigenous Groups of North America?
Indigenous people from North America are also called original or Native Americans as well as First Nations. Indigenous groups have lived in North America for thousands of years. They inhabited the area long before Europeans “discovered” it in the fifteenth century. North America’s indigenous people were popularly and erroneously referred to as “Indians” because Europeans mistakenly thought they had reached India. The Cherokee, Cheyenne, Cree, Haida, Iroquois, Mi’kmaq, Navajo, and Ojibwe are among the most common indigenous groups of North America, although there are numerous others. The Cherokee are indigenous to parts of the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama. The Cherokee developed their own elected tribal council system of government and their own newspapers and court and school systems. Some Cherokee became quite wealthy farmers until the United States government created The Indian Removal Act in 1829 when gold was found on Cherokee-owned land in Georgia
