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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. 10,000–8000 BC
    Early North American lifestyles
    Ancestors of American Indians hunt large mammals, catch fish, and gather fruits and nuts. Archaeological ...
  4. 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 ...
  5. 1000 BC–AD 1550
    Urban gardeners build earthen mounds in Ohio River valley
    The Adena and Hopewell farming cultures build large earthwork mounds at the center of their cities and ...
  6. AD 1000
    Viking ships land in Mi’kmaq homelands
    Viking ships visit the homelands of the Mi’kmaq people in areas now known as Maine, Prince Edward Island, ...
  7. AD 1493–1550s
    Native peoples begin dying from European diseases
    Diseases unknown to them spread rapidly among Native peoples, who lack immunity to viruses and bacteria ...
  8. AD 1501
    Portuguese explorer kidnaps northeastern Native peoples
    Portuguese explorer Gaspar Corte-Real abducts two shiploads of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and other peoples ...
  9. AD 1503
    Foreigners come for cod; carry disease to New England
    For generations, teeming schools of codfish support Native peoples along the North Atlantic coast. After ...
  10. AD 1506–18
    Viruses move inland along with French traders
    The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and Huron begin exchanging goods with French traders pushing inland from ...
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