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Describe the Indigenous peoples who lived in North and South America prior to the arrival of the Europeans.

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Their settlements and social groups were impermanent, and communal leadership (what little there was) was informal. After European contact, some Great Basin groups got horses and formed equestrian hunting and raiding bands that were similar to the ones we associate with the Great Plains natives.

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