SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
NORTH AMERICAN EXPLORATION
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Indians
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Native Americans
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Other Europeans
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Africans
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Detailed explanation-1: -The settlers began to explore and they soon encountered the Native people of the Chesapeake Bay region. There were many tribes living there at the time, most belonging to three major chiefdoms: the Powhatan, the Piscataway, and the Nanticoke.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Native Americans occupied the continent before the Europeans arrived.
Detailed explanation-3: -Before Europeans arrived in North America, Native peoples inhabited every region.
Detailed explanation-4: -Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived? Great American Indian tribes such as the Navajo, Sioux, Cherokee, and Iroquois lived in America at the time the Pilgrims arrived. The Pilgrims settled in an area where a tribe called the Wampanoag lived.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.