FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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The early cultures of the Americas had no interest in one another
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There were significant differences in the physical ways in which early inhabitants of the Americas spoke
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American Indian languages were very difficult to learn
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The societies that developed in the Americas were often quite different from one another
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Detailed explanation-1: -What can you infer from the fact that the first groups of people living in the Americas spoke to so many different languages? The early cultures of the Americas had no interest in one another. There were significant differences in the physical ways in which early inhabitants of the Americas spoke.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tribes and Clans At the highest level were the tribes or nations. These were large groups of people that had culture, geography, and language in common. Within each tribe were smaller groups called clans.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Well-known tribes included the Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Bella Coola, Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), Coast Salish, and Chinook.