Students’ Questions about History Page 63

The Native American people are the indigenous people of the United States. They are also known as American Indians.

Native American Heritage Month is celebrated in November.

A Native American is a person who belongs to one of the many indigenous peoples of the Americas. The term “Native American” includes both indigenous peoples of the mainland and of the islands of the Americas.

It is estimated that between 1492 and 1900, 90 to 95 percent of the Native American population in the Americas was killed by European settlers.

In the United States, Native American Day is celebrated on the fourth Friday in September. In Canada, it is celebrated on the second Monday in October.

The Holocaust was caused by the Nazis, who were in power in Germany at the time. They believed in a racial hierarchy and that the Jewish people were at the bottom. They decided to exterminate them in an attempt to create a “pure” German race.

Malcolm X was assassinated by Nation of Islam members while giving a speech in New York City.

Malcolm X was an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist. He was a vocal critic of the civil rights movement, believing that blacks should achieve equality by any means necessary.

Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence.

Malcolm X was assassinated by Nation of Islam members who disagreed with his views.