Who were the first people on Alaska?

Answer 1

The first people who came to Alaska, or North America came across the Land Bridge from Asia/Europe, now submerged, are called now Native Americans because these were the first people to inhabit North America.

Answer 2

• Inuit
• Aleuts
• Indians

They were living in Alaska when Russian explorers arrived. A Russian trader established the first white settlement, on Kodiak Island, in 1784.

Answer 3

The first people into the Americas (including Alaska) were nomadic hunters. They didn't plan to come here, they followed the migrations of the game. We don't consider them "Native Americans" as they weren't born here and they predate the development of today's Native Americans(Indians). Rather we call them "PaleoIndians." They walked across dry land from Asia. The great ice age lowered the water of the Bering strait and created a new land, Beringia. Beringia is generally thought to have been a flat plain, dry and dusty. It did support plant and animal life. Once in the Americas, they found the passage south blocked. The ice sheets from the Rockies had merged with the ones from the Hudson Bay region. An important part about the Bering land bridge was that when it existed, the ice blocked the way to what would be the United States. When the ice melted, the land bridge disappeared, but the way south was open. Current thought is that people were in Alaska at least 18-22,000 years ago and found a way south.

Answer 4

From what we know, Vitus Jonassen Bering was the first outsider who discovered Alaska. He was a Danish explorer who found the place in 1728 on a voyage coming from Siberia while on service for Russia's navy. He traveled along the lines of St. Lawrence Island. However, he was unable to reach Alaska's mainland.

Answer 5

Probably the Russians under Vitus Bering in 1741.

Answer 6

The first natives in alaska were russian hunters

Answer 7

The Tlingit Indians were some of the first people in Alaska.

Answer 8

The Russians.