People of the Legends
Indigenous People of North America - Early History
The first Americans follow the giant animals
During this long period of time, different groups of people who hunted the giant animals probably followed them down across the land bridge from Europe and Asia into Alaska. 
The groups were not all alike. They spoke different languages, had different cultures and they did not look the same.
Some groups stayed in Alaska and others moved on - east to the Arctic, down to Canada and further south – until there were people living right across what are now called North and South America and Mexico. Some groups grew in size, others joined together and they changed and adapted for survival wherever they went.
At the end of the last Ice Age, about 10,000 years ago the ice melted and the sea covered the land bridge again. New groups of people still came, but by boat now.
These first inhabitants knew how to create fire, and make clothes and shelters. They had weapons and tools made of stone, bone and wood. They knew a lot about the animals they hunted and they learned about the land they had come to.
