Native Americans

Our story today is a sad [one:end] . It is the story of a clash of peoples, religions, ideas, and cultures. It is a story of strongly [held:hold] ideas and a lack of compromise. It is the story of the relations between Europeans and the natives who had lived for [thousands:hundreds] of years in the area we now call North America. [Many:Few] different Native American groups [lived:learned] on the East Coast of what would become United States. They [spoke:spell] many different languages. Some were farmers, some were hunters. Some fought many wars, others were peaceful.