FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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American Indians
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Indigenous peoples
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Native Americans
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Pilgrims
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -One is Native Americans, which is a more accepted term to describe those who lived here first. Some will also refer to themselves as indigenous people, which is used in other countries. Or, you may see the phrase First Nations people, which simply means the first people of that nation.
Detailed explanation-2: -What is the correct terminology: American Indian, Indian, Native American, Indigenous, or Native? All of these terms are acceptable. The consensus, however, is that whenever possible, Native people prefer to be called by their specific tribal name.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Native American” became the preferred “politically correct” terminology in the 1970s. This term emphasizes that hundreds of individual tribes inhabited the land now known as the United States of America before anyone else. In other words, they’re native to this land.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the 1970s, college students in archaeology such as myself learned that the first human beings to arrive in North America had come over a land bridge from Asia and Siberia approximately 13, 000 to 13, 500 years ago. These people, the first North Americans, were known collectively as Clovis people.