Friday, October 2, 2009

ITS THE TRIBE! TIME TO SHINE SOME LIGHT ON NATIVE AMERICANS






the bering strait is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the easternmost point of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, the westernmost point of the North American continent, It is one of the biggest of its kind.

The Bering Strait has been studied by scientists because they believe that humans migrated from Asia to the North American continent across a land bridge formed by lower ocean levels in the distant past.. exposing a ridge beneath the ocean. At periods when the oceans were lower, like when glaciers locked up a large amount of water, the exposed ridge would have allowed humans to simply walk from Siberia to Alaska, thus populating North and South America thousands of years ago.

NOW THAT WE CLEARED THAT UP ..


indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans

According to the still-debated New World migration model, a migration of humans from Eurasia to the Americas took place via Beringia, a land bridge which connected the two continents across what is now the Bering Strait. The most recent point at which this migration could have taken place is 12,000 years ago .. These early Paleo-Indians soon spread throughout the Americas, diversifying into many hundreds of culturally distinct nations and tribes. According to the oral histories of many of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, they have been living there since their genesis, described by a wide range of traditional creation accounts.

the term "Indian" originated with Christopher Columbus, who thought that he had arrived in the East Indies, while seeking Asia.

While some indigenous people of the Americas were historically hunter-gatherers, many practiced aquaculture and agriculture. The impact of their agricultural endowment to the world is a testament to their time and work in reshaping, taming, and cultivating the flora indigenous to the Americas. Some societies depended heavily on agriculture while others practiced a mix of farming, hunting, and gathering. In some regions the indigenous peoples created monumental architecture, large-scale organized cities, chiefdoms, states, and massive empires.

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