Who were the first Americans?

Question

When did they live?

And how did they get to the New World?

Answer 1

According to 'new' archaeology the Solutreans -a people living in Europe around 22000y BP.(When the Atlantic would have been extensively covered in ice-floes) The evidence is circumstantial- flint technology similar to that found at Clovis (17000BP), and the ability of the Inuit to make long sea voyages in skin boats.
However look out for Mousterian artefacts still to be found in sites under excavation in Brazil dated..50000BP! Don't think this is yet on the net. ( Australasia was colonised 50000BP by proto homo sapiens using island -hopping and primitive boats.)

Answer 2

The first Americans were the people who met the Vikings about 1000 AD, Christopher Columbus in 1492, various English and French explorers beginning with the 1580's, the English Puritans in 1620.... The first Americans were the Native Americans.

There is archaeological evidence that Native Americans have lived here over 10,000 years. The two theories of where they migrated from are:

1. Bering Straits land bridge linking Alaska and Siberia during the last Ice Age;

2. Another land bridge that connected Europe with Greenland also during the last Ice Age.

Answer 3

The first Americans would have been those who broke off from great britain into colonies. This would be found in the signers of the decleration of indepepndece. This would atleast answer the government portion of your question.

The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock on Dec. 26, 1620.

Christopher Columbus landed in October 12, 1492 at Puerto Castilla.

Leif Ericson landed in Vinland supposedly to explore all the way to the present day state of Minnesota in the year 1000

Many believe the indians came from northeast Asia and traveled across ice sheets that existed 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. They began to inhabit in what is now known as Alaska and find their way down the west coast of the continent.

Answer 4

The American Indian. Whether they came across the Bering Strait or up from South or Central America will be a point of debate forever. However, when you look at the stories passed down over the generations, it is interesting to see so many similarities to cultures out of South and Central America that date back 2,000 years+.

How did they get here? By walking and most probably dugout canoes. Horses didn't come until the Spaniards.

Answer 5

The first Americans walked from northeastern Asia into Alaska! They could do this because the two continents were once connected by a land-bridge across the Bering Strait. The people, who were hunter-gatherers, then moved slowly southwards, following their food supplies

the first Amercans were what came to be known as the Indians.

Answer 6

The first Americans were the people who lived here in 1776. Some lived in the houses that they built, some in tents and hogans.
How did they get here ? Those of European background either came by ship or were born here. Those of Indian ancestry came across the grasslands from Asia. After the last ice age, the water level rose, and what formerly was grassland became the Bering Strait.

Answer 7

Grog of the Cave Bear clan was dubbed the "first American" after crossing the Berring Strait ice bridge in the Year 39,563 BC by the ape-like elders of the tribe.

Answer 8

the native americans indians why they use native is because this was the original people here/ isn't it a shame white man came to this country and fought robbed killed and lied to make it their own some how i don't think we are any better then some of the other 3world countries at least i cant say im proud of how many years ago our fathers fought for this nation yhat was not theirs in the first place what makes us any better??

Answer 9

There were four migrations through Beringia from Siberia into the Americas. There may have been a fifth that went by sea down the west coast as far as the Cape. Each migration mingled and became known as the Native American.

Answer 10

The first Americans were the "Indians" or more acceptable Native Americans. They were here many thousand years before the first pilgrims.