How did Native Americans get to America?

Answer 1

There is a difference of opinion concerning how people first came to North and South America.

Most scientists think the first people walked across a land bridge that went from Siberia to Alaska. That land is now underwater. The people walked north of the Brooks Range in Alaska and East of the Canadian Rockies. While Alaska south of the Brooks Range was covered with glaciers and Canada west of the Rockies was also covered with glaciers, that area was grassland and had no glaciers. The people came south into the United States, fanned out and some went to South America.

Some think that Asian fishermen simply kept going father and farther out to sea and set up bases on the West Coast of America. Those bases became colonies.

Some think that European fishermen may have set up bases in America. (Similarities exist between the Basque language and some American Indian Languages. However, both may have originated from a nearby place in Asia.)

The last people to come were the Eskimos. They originated in Siberia and settled the Arctic ocean region of Asia and North America traveling in their boats and dog sleds. (Since they were the last non-western people to come to America, scientists tend to assume that earlier people used a similar pattern as did the eskimos. Such may not be correct.

Answer 2

The very first people got to Americas by walking. About 2,000 something years ago people from India and Asia crossing Bering Bridge(Serbia, Russia to Alaska, U.S), at that time the Ice connected Russia to Alaska. So people could cross from Asia to Americas. These people were the Indians, later called Native Indians or Native Americans.

And thereafter much later in 1492, when Columbus travelled to Americas, many European nationals started coming by sea-routes by ships.

Answer 3

The standard answer is they came from central or North East Asia over the Bering Strait then skirted the coast either on foot or (more likely) by boat to South America. An interesting point is that linguistic diversity is greater in South than in North America, which would mean either that it is the only case where linguistic diversity is less in a point of dispersion than in an ultimate point of settlement or else the standard explanation of Amerindian settlement is wrong.

Answer 4

Tribes from the Altai mountains crossed a land bridge from Asia to America.