Where do we live? Continent? Country? Province? City?
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Lesson 2: Who are the First Occupants? Where did they live?
Who were the first people to live in North America? Some call the first people to live in North America “Native Americans” Some call them “Indians” Some call them “indigenous” What are we going to call the first people who lived in North America? The First Occupants
The First Occupants: Where did they come from? Archeologists and others who studied the First Occupants say that The First Occupants arrived in North America 30,000 years ago a long time ago Experts say that they crossed a ‘land bridge’ made out of ice
The First Occupants crossed from Asia to what is now Alaska into North America and South America
START ASIA ICE BRIDGE
What was covering North America before people got here? ICE, ICE and MORE ICE!!!
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The First Occupants lived where we are right now!!! It is believed that people started to live where we are right now 6,000 years ago There were three main groups of First Occupants living in our region: The Iroquoians The Algonkians The Inuit
The first group: Iroquoians Where did they live? The St. Lawrence Valley
The second group: Algonkians Where did they live The second group: Algonkians Where did they live? The Canadian Shield and the Appalachian Mountains
The third group: Inuit Where did they live The third group: Inuit Where did they live? Northern Canada/Tundra region