Who were the First Occupants in America?

Question

It seems to be commonly accepted that the Native Americans populated the Americas (now United States) before the arrival of Europeans. My question is, were there there any groups here before the Native Americans? And, if so, how did the Native Americans obtain the land and how did they get here?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Native Americans are people of asian heritage. They crossed over from Russia/Siberia to Alaska over a frozen land bridge that spanned the Bering Strait. There has been no archaeological evidence showing prior human habitation of the North and South American continents.

The Mormons may disagree saying that one of the tribes of Judea crossed over on boats or something. But there is no evidence of such.

Animals other than humans have lived in North America long before humans, so you could say other groups have been here far longer, but that's not really what you were asking.

Geological records clearly show that at one point South America and Africa were connected, but this was before Homo sapiens.

Answer 2

Nobody actually knows who the first occupants were. Peoples arrived in what is now the U.S. through a series of migrations.
Those migrations just kept on keeping on, including the Europeans and now the Hispanic peoples.

The U.S. is a huge place, and many of the groups were nomadic. But by and large, if they wanted to settle down they just picked a spot a did it. If no one contested it, there they were. If someone did then you had war.

A lot of the groups migrated across the Bering Strait when it was a land bridge. Others came up from South America through the Central Americas and Mexico.

Answer 3

The Native Americans came here (their ancesters, actually) by the now-defunct Bering Strait, which connected Asia with Alaska, allowing Asiatic peoples to cross it and come to what is now the Americas.

Answer 4

It goes so far back that people were living in America, North and South! It goes further than 30,000 years ago, with mummies found with age of 28,000 ago!
What it is know is that the Greeks were traveling back and forth to America (the New World, the Large continent beyond the Atlantic Sea) many thousands of years ago! Archeology, sociology, etc prove this!

Answer 5

I love teaching this part of U.S. history. The location was somewhere near the Bering Strait. Two theories: land and sea. The land theory suggests that hunters pursued migrating prey across what used to be a frozen over passage of water. The sea theory suggests that fishermen kept pursuing fish eastward along the banks of Alaska until winter caused them to settle and eventually stay along the western coast of Canada. As to who they were, the latest theory is western Asian, most likely early relatives of those who settled in China.

Answer 6

Indians were the first people in America. It is believed they crossed on a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska tens of thousands of years ago; one estimate was it happened between 40,000 and 75,000 years ago.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

indians.