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Antiquity Origins Today, all tribes tell stories of their origins. There are as many creation stories as there are tribes, ... |
40,000–10,000 BC Homelands Contemporary Native peoples from many nations teach that they originated in their traditional lands. ... |
13,000–10,000 BC Asiatic peoples reach Alaska Anthropologists currently believe that Asiatic peoples migrated across Ice Age land bridges from eastern ... |
10,000–8000 BC Early North American lifestyles Ancestors of American Indians hunt large mammals, catch fish, and gather fruits and nuts. Archaeological ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
4000 BC Upper Midwest hunters return again and again to lodges In what is now known as Illinois, people return regularly to the same places to hunt elk, beaver, and ... |