The Fall Semester begins! Don’t skip past the thousands of years of Native American history just to get to the colonies. Native American history IS American History!
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
American History
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
American History
American History
I know you wanna go
Straight to 13 colonies
But first thing you should know
Before the English came here
Spanish or the French
People were living here (People were living here)
Way before all them
Native Americans
They were here before us
They were here before us
Way before Columbus
Native Americans
They were here before us
Millenniums before us
Came ‘cross Beringia
Central America
Olmecs on the Gulf Coast
Then Maya ‘comes the boss
Population millions
They building cities, yeah
Teotihuacan
Then the Maya fell
No one’s sure the reason
Yeah, yeah, Toltecs become the man
Yeah, yeah, Aztecs conquer the land
Yeah, yeah, structured ‘round religion
Yeah, yeah, built Tenochtitlan
Yeah, yeah, South America’s
Largest empire was
Inca, they so long
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, can we finally
Get to the colonies
Ain’t that all we have to know, teach
No, man!
All we have to know, teach
No, man!
All we have to know, teach (No, man!)
All we have to know, teach (No, man!)
Listen!
In North America
Tribes were here before us (woo,woo, tribes were here before us)
Not just one populous
But tribes in the hundreds
Southwest America
Anasazi set up
Dwellings made in cliff rocks
And kivas in villages
Followed by Acoma
Zuni too
Hopi people
Apache soon
Building hogans
Navajo
3 Mound Builders
You should know
The Adena, Hopewell
Mississippian
Nez Perce in Rocky Mountains
Up north, Inuit
In the Southeast is the Cherokee (Cherokee)
Iroquois got a confederacy (-federacy
Comanche, Dakota in the Plains
There’s too many tribes for me to name
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, Native history
America, I just heard the oral histories
Ain’t just Native history
Those Europeans stole you
It’s American History
Yeah, man!
It’s American History
It’s American History
It’s American History
It’s American History
Now we can start now!
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