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  1. Antiquity
    Origins
    Today, all tribes tell stories of their origins. There are as many creation stories as there are tribes, ...
  2. 40,000–10,000 BC
    Homelands
    Contemporary Native peoples from many nations teach that they originated in their traditional lands. ...
  3. 13,000–10,000 BC
    Asiatic peoples reach Alaska
    Anthropologists currently believe that Asiatic peoples migrated across Ice Age land bridges from eastern ...
  4. 10,000 BC
    The Unangan (Aleut) perform surgery
    Unlike other tribes at this time, the Unangan peoples in the Aleutian Islands west of Alaska understand ...
  5. 10,000–8000 BC
    Early North American lifestyles
    Ancestors of American Indians hunt large mammals, catch fish, and gather fruits and nuts. Archaeological ...
  6. 10,000 BC
    Unangan (Aleut) settle the Aleutian Islands
    Unangan (Aleut) people settle the island chain stretching south and west from the Alaskan Peninsula. ... Land ...
  7. 9000 BC
    At Celilo, trade thrives as the salmon run
    Celilo, a village on what is now called the Columbia River, bustles during salmon runs. Each year, salmon ...
  8. 8000 BC
    Glaciers retreat; climate changes; diets shift
    At the end of the Ice Age, many large mammals become extinct. Across the Americas, people shift away ...
  9. 8000 BC
    Northwest hunters feed villages with mastodon meat
    On the Olympic Peninsula in what is now Washington State, archaeological records and carbon dating reveal ...
  10. 4500 BC
    Mound builders keep gardens along the Mississippi River
    Ancestors of the Muscogee people build circular earthwork mounds—the earliest evidence of human habitation ...
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