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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 1520–24
    Mid-Atlantic coast peoples meet foreign explorer
    On the Atlantic coast, Wampanoag, Narragansett, and Lenape (Delaware) peoples encounter Giovanni da Verrazano, ...
  8. AD 1620
    English Pilgrims settle on Wampanoag land
    Pilgrims settle at what is now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod near the abandoned village ...
  9. AD 1620
    Pequot trade for iron pots to cook traditional foods
    The Pequot, who live near what is now known as the Mystic River in Connecticut, get food from the rich ...
  10. AD 1621
    Wampanoag people save Pilgrims
    The Wampanoag people, the “People of the First Light,” are responsible for saving the Pilgrims from starvation ...
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