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Today we are going to discuss one theory scientists give about how humans began ariving in North America. Scientists believe that hunters first came to the Americas across a land bridge between Asia and North America following animals during the Ice Age. They believe that because the water was frozen in glaciers, a land bridge was formed in the Bering Strait, called the Beringia, allowing the people to walk across the ocean floors on dry land.

These early Americans were known as Paleo-Indians, ancestors to modern American Indians, and were nomads who began spreading throughout the Americas. They were hunters and gatherers and moved either eastward along rivers and through passes to the northeast and southward along the coast. As time went on and the Ice Age began to end, the large animal that were hunted began to die out, civilizations began to develop. The people adapted to the change by gathering and planting the seeds of useful wild plants, which allowed them to stay in one place longer because they harvested their crops. =Pictures of Indians in the United States= Hopi woman weaving a basket. Photographed by Henry Peabody, ca. 1900. American Indian Select List number 12. ||
 * [[image:http://www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/pictures/images/indians-012a.jpg width="388" height="368" caption="Photo of Native Americans"]]
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=Pictures of Indians in the United States=

American Indian Select List number 55. || []Shirley First Americans
 * [[image:http://www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/pictures/images/indians-055a.jpg width="352" height="466" caption="Photo of Native Americans"]] Two Tlingit girls, Tsacotna and Natsanitna, wearing noserings, near Cooper River, Alaska. Miles Brothers photograph, 1903.

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