W is for Welcome: A Celebration of America's Diversity
B is for the Bering Strait Thousands of years ago these waters were by an invitation to explore a narrow bridge
Strait ago once spanned explore bridge of land Way up north near the Arctic Circle the continents of Asia and North America are less than 60 miles apart The narrow sea passage between them is called the Bering Strait Thousands of years ago water levels there were lower than they are now Scientists believe this exposed a bridge of land connecting the two continents That land allowed early humans to migrate into what is now Alaska Historians currently believe these were the first people in North America and were the ancestors of many Native Americans and of Canada's First Nations people Illustrated by Michael Glenn Monroe
