Fascinating Facts • American Indians did not become United States citizens until 1924 California Indians in California who spoke more than one hundred languages • The word Indian, the name for the people who lived in the Americas, came from a mistake In 1492 Christopher Columbus thought he had reached the East Indies, so he named the people “Indians.” Nonfiction AmericanIndianLife by Maureen Blaney Flietner • There were once hundreds of groups of Genre OldandNewin Text Features • Glossary • Captions • Headings Scott Foresman Social Studies ISBN 0-328-17498-X ì