CONTENTS INTRODUCTION HAPTER ON A RAT THE FIRST PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS HAPTER OAC Two NATIVE PEOPLES SPREAD TO DIFFERENT PARTS OF NORTH AMERICA 15 CHAPTER THREE EUROPEANS ARRIVE IN NORTH AMERICA 24 HAPTER NATIVE AMERICANS FOUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA 30 CHAPTER FIVE NATIVE NORTH I ARAH AMERICANS TODAY 37 GLOSSARY 44 FOR MORE INFORMATION 46 INDEX 47
DISCOVERIN NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN CULTURES he first people in North America lived there thousands of years before European explorers arrived These people had trekked into North America from Siberia a large area that is now part of Russia They began to cross a land bridge into North America more than thirteen thousand years ago when the Ice Age was coming to an end No one knows how many native people first settled in Northern America present day United States and Canada Population estimates for the time of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in 1492 are of nine hundred thousand to eighteen million living north of the Rio Grande Many descendants of these native people still live in North America today Arctic peoples including the Eskimo and the Aleut still live in the far northern parts of North America Life changed greatly for North America's natives with the arrival of Europeans in their lands the passage of time and the modernization of
INTRODUCTION A dancer participates in the annual Red Mountain Eagle Pow Wow in Scottsdale
