FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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Lakota
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Powhatan
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Pueblo
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Powhatan lived in the Eastern Woodland region. They lived in wood frame houses with bark/reed coverings. They were fishermen, hunters, and farmers. For transportation, they walked and paddled canoes.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Hall of Eastern Woodlands Indians focuses on the traditional cultures of the Native American peoples, including the Iroquois, Mohegans, Ojibwas, and Crees, living in the Eastern Woodlands of North America through the early 20th century.
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: -The Powhatans lived in eastern Virginia, where they famously encountered English settlers in the Jamestown colony. Here is a tribal map of Virginia showing the original location of the Powhatans and their neighbors in the state. Some Powhatan descendants still live in Virginia today.