...over 13,000 years ago migrants from what is now Siberia crossed over the incredibly inhospitable land bridge, now the Bering Strait, settling in North America... at their height there were over 125 separate tribes alone living in the U.S. Pacific Northwest...
..as for the Southwest Coast... evidence of human occupation dates from at least 19,000 years ago... prior to European contact, California's indigenous population had 500 distinct sub-tribes.. with over 300 dialects of approx. 100 distinct languages
..estimates of the pre-Columbian population of what today constitutes the U.S. vary significantly, ranging from 4 to 18 million..
...today, there are over 5 million 'Native Americans' in the United States.
..these peoples were fully capable of existing for thousands of years prior to the European invasion/ conquest..
..and now look where we are after just several hundred..
... Native Americans Left A Code Of 20 Rules For Mankind To Live By
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