USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Previous genetic work had suggested the ancestors of Native Americans split from Siberians and East Asians about 25, 000 years ago, perhaps when they entered the now mostly drowned landmass of Beringia, which bridged the Russian Far East and North America.

Detailed explanation-2: -Native American literature, also called Indian literature or American Indian literature, the traditional oral and written literatures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hearing and understanding American Indian history from Indian perspectives provides an important point of view to the discussion of history and cultures in the Americas. Indian perspectives expand the social, political, and economic dialogue. Indigenous people played a significant role in the history of the Americas.

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.