Indians were an ethnicity whom lived in America, they was living by tribe, there was a chief who lead the tribe, a chaman a kind of wizard, and finally the children with the women called squaw and their husbands. A majority of them were killed by the conquistadors and others europeans settlers, indians were used to work south-americans ressources as the rhum, the sugar or the coffee. Europeans were collecting those ressources to swap them and having African as slaves. It was the principle of the triangular trading. But indians stayed in our memories, some of them are always famous today: Geronimo, Sitting Bull or Red Cloud for example.
