Discovering Native North American Cultures

Discovering Native North American Cultures — page 1
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