Ok.....if Native American Indians were the first people here in America, how did they get here?

Answer 1

Theories put forth suggest that they crossed over during the ice age over a land bridge between Russia and Alaska known as the Bering Land Bridge. From there they migrated south to the western United States and spread forth from there. Eskimos are the descendants of the ancient North Americans who stayed behind instead of migrating.

Answer 2

I'm not sure that they were the first people on the continent(s). Anyhow, there is no such thing as a "native American". All Americans derive, as do all Asians and Europeans, from Africa. Those people we call Indians possibly crossed over a land bridge in what is now the Bering Straits during the most recent ice age (ie, more or less 20,000 years ago). An alternative theory would have them drift there from Polynesia. DNA testing, previously not possible, ought to resolve these questions.

Answer 3

The main theory is that they crossed the polar land bridge from Russia. During the late ice ages that land was all connected in one huge polar cap. Even today the US and Russia are actually only separated by 20 miles. (island to island)

The theory is that tribes living in the area around Russia needed to migrate for food and crossed the bridge. Some followed herds while others followed hope. They then settled in the new area where food was more plentiful. If and when they decided to return, it was too late as the land bridge had melted away.

Answer 4

They came across the Bering Strait from Asia.

Thus the anthropological classification of Native Americans as Mongoloid.

Answer 5

3-4 waves over the period from 10 to 30,000 years came over the Bering Strait ice bridge. A fifth wave came from Stone Age Europe (descendants of the modern day Ojibwe Indians-Soluterians), and smaller contacts were from one of the Polynesian islands.

Answer 6

When people "formed" they probably were already on that land. And Native American Indians were NOT the 1st people here. It was the neandrathels

Answer 7

Theories say that the allution islands (of alaska) were a bridge across the arctic, thats the best anthropologists can do at this point, and I dont find any problems with it.

Answer 8

From Siberia when there was a land bridge where the Aleutian Islands are now

Answer 9

Food moves...people follow...