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Not exactly. For them there was no difference between the lands they left behind (modern Asia) and the lands they moved into, since they were all one continuous land mass.
Imagine yourself 20,000 years ago living in a hunting band in the area that is now Panama. Your hunting band moves south-east to follow the animals you are hunting; you keep following those animals, making new camps and finding fresh water sources as you go. Eventually you will be in South America - but nothing is any different to the place you started from, so it would not seem like you have discovered new land. There's just a lot of it - and no humans are there already.
That's exactly how it was for those Neolithic hunters following game animals into the Americas.
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BlakeThere is not a certain time when Native Americans first existed. They lived as Native Americans since the beginning of time.
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The first person to sail the Americas?
It was Native Americans.
Europeans attempted to enslave when they first encountered them in the New World?
Native Americans.
Who was the first European explorer to realize America was a New World?
The first person to discover America was Christopher Columbus.But technichly the Native Americans were because they were the first one on that land.When Christopher Columbus came there were already Native Americans.
Do you capitalize Native Americans?
Yes
What happened to the Native Americans when the Europeans arrived?
When the Europeans arrived, thousands of Native Americans died of smallpox. Not only that, but Europeans slaughtered thousands of Natives under the order of President Andrew Jackson. The surviving Native Americans were forced on to reservations.
