Were the Native Americans the first people in America?

Question

Were the Native Americans/ Indians the first people in America. Or were there white people there as well. How did they claim the land and when.

Answer 1

On the eve of "discovery" by the Europeans, North America was an intricate mosaic of distinctive peoples. Most densely populated was the Atlantic Seaboard from the boundaries of present-day Southern Maine to North Carolina, where Algonquian-speaking peoples lived in settled farming communities. They combined intensive and sophisticated horticulture with efficient small and big game hunting and fishing. In the Great Lakes region and the Saint Lawrence River area, First Nations harvested wild rice, hunted big game, and fished. They also made use of intensive agricultural methods, and travelled by birch-bark canoes, interacting with other nations through a system of peaceful trading networks and more hostile rivalries.

The Mississippian and Hopewell societies to the south were also densely populated, with mutually antagonistic communities and hierarchical social organisations. To the west, on the sparsely populated Great Plains, lived the Amerindian big-game hunters. On the West Coast, from modern southern Alaska to the Columbia River, mobile trading nations travelled along the coast and inland along the rivers, even extending as far south as the Acoma pueblo towns of present-day California on occasion. They made use of sea-going canoes to trade iron, pelts, copper, dried fish, fish oil, dentalium shells, and human slaves with other coastal nations. The Pacific coast was one of the most highly developed areas of Pre-Contact North America, home to the greatest variety of languages on the continent as well as to many complex and sophisticated cultures. Other First Nations in North America included the Inuit, the Aleut, and the Athapaskan speaking groups

Answer 2

Define "Native American"

Define"white people".

Or Read A History Book!

Current Archaeology sugges the oldest arrivals in the Americas may have been more Australoid than Northern Asian in appearance?

A small minority of Archaeologists claim people could have came over from Europe by raft or canoe and claim certain stone tools show similarity to European stone tools!


Either go to the Library and check the Archaeology and history shelves or search Google or Wiki or the library catalogues using search words like these:

Kennewick Man

Archaeogenetics

American Prehistory

Amerinds

Also check to see if your library keeps back issues of Scientific American American Scientist New Scientist and the National Geographic Magazine all of which frequently run reports on archaeology and prehistory.

Answer 3

They are indigenous, yes, however, many believe that when the continents were initially connected that their ancestors migrated from other regions.

40,000–15,000 B.C.
People migrate to North America from Asia at irregular intervals by way of the Bering Land Bridge.

American Indians have been in North Ameria for over 15,000 years.
http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/nchh/amerindian.html

The Cherokees, for example, believe that they have always lived in Western North Carolina. Indeed, finely crafted stone tools and fluted spear-points confirm that people lived here more than 11,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age. Ancient Cherokee tales describe hunts of the mastodons that once foraged through the upland spruce and fir.
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Answer 4

there may be an ever earlier group that came to the east coast. they have vound artifacts leading archeologists to believe things were booming on the east coast long before the mongols walked across the frozen bering sea. thus, gradually working their way south throgh the central part of the country and on down into south america. heard it over and over and they still qualify their states like it is only theorgy not a dead certainlty. now they keep find more and more artifacts in south american suggest other things. some thing the south american natives are not part of the eskimo group but are related to egyptians and the pyrimids and such. so many similarities. now they are find stritctly american ag products in the pharohs tombs like american tobacco and coco leaves (source of cocaine etc.). there seems to be no doubt. the pharohs even had corn meal strictly come from america. how did it get in egypt. they have been treating us like mushrooms, you know the song, feeding us crap and keeping us in the dark. they have had so many incorrect concludsion about so many things like egypt who knows who is lying and who is just dummies wjho jump to incorrect conclusion. vikings beat c. columbus to america, it is very vwell known today. maybe others came earlier . note, east coast indians sure are a different phiotype than the north west and south american natives. hell who knows.

Answer 5

Names: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming.

Answer 6

The oldest human bones found in America were European. It is thought that hunters from Europe sailed around the southern edge of the ice sheet in one of the major Ice Ages. This discovery caused huge ructions among the 'native Americans' who attempted to have further research stopped by the US courts. It was too late, however, and their claim to have been the original inhabitants of the USA has been seriously undermined..

Answer 7

Grog of the Cave Bear Clan was dubbed "first Native American" by the elders of the tribe for him being the first to cross the Bering Strait Ice Bridge in the Year 35,563 BC.....

Answer 8

Based on human remains and tools, some are now suggesting Polynesians arrived first, settling in South America, and at about the same time Caucasion peoples arrived. There were several waves of migrations to the Continents, the "Native Americans" were likely one of the last.

Answer 9

there is a theory..i dont know whether it is true or not..it is said to be they a branch of turks...as far as i remember there are some common words..anyway justcheck the link..there is a high possibility that it could be a myth;

http://ireland.iol.ie/~afifi/Articles/turkic.htm