1492 is when Columbus came to North America. However, there were several Norweigens who came to go ice fishing in parts of Canada long before Columbus.
The "Vikings".
The first people who stepped in North America were the Vikings.
Obviously, the first to discover North America is Mel Gibson, who then sent back for the band Quarterflash. This was about 4000 years BC.
It is thought man first populated North America some time during the last Ice Age, probably 10,000 to 18,000 years ago.
Around 560 people lived in North America when Europeans first arrived. Around 560 people lived in North America when Europeans First arrived.
The indigenous people of Alaska and Hawaii were the first nations of eastern North America.
They probably came from Russia, since Alaska and Russia were connected during the Ice Age.
The first people to visit North America were the Indians, or indigenous people, or first nations, as they are variously called.
The first people known to come by boat to continental North America were Vikings sailors from Scandinavia.
The Vikings, from Scandinavia, were probably the first to arrive at North America by ship, but their discovery was not widely known in most of Europe. Christopher Columbus, an Italian, sailing for Spain, was the first to make his arrival known to all of Western Europe.
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The first people were Native Americans who crosses the land-bridge from Asia to North America. The first outsiders were Europeans who traveled the Atlantic by ship.