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There are different theories out there, people use to believe Native Americans came during the last ice age, when the sea level was low enough that there was a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. The ancient Siberians, related to the Mongolians, Chinese, Koreans, etc. crossed this land bridge into Alaska. Over the centuries, they migrated south to completely cover the continents of North and South America. Another theory has it that Native Americans came by boat across the Pacific, not in a single journey but rather island hopping, populating one island after another, Hawaii for example is already halfway from Asia to North America. As for the Inuits that came separately at a later time bringing forth a second wave of migration, they are believed to have crossed the Bering Strait by an ice bridge where the water freezes to a point where it can be walked on allowing one to walk from Asia to North America. Inuits are originally from Siberia and resemble modern Chinese. Their people have spread out from Siberia to Alaska, Northern Canada and Greenland. Native Americans however are consider to be cousins of Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, etc., but are still categorized under the same race as them as Mongoloids. Native Americans have closer resemblance to Pacific Islanders than they do with East Asians, whereas Inuits resemble East Asians. On a side note, the last crossing of the ice bridge between Asia and North America was in 2006 by a Briton and a French American, walking for fifteen days from Alaska to Russia. These mark the first wave of settlers as well as the second wave of settlers that migrated to the New World.
I would depend on who is being referred to as "they".
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe "first settlers" can be interpreted in different ways.
The first people to settle in America were those who are believed to have crossed the Alaskan landbridge and when they did that is unknown.
Vikings are known to have settled in the north-east, but the settlement did not last - again, when they did that is unknown.
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∙ 15y agothe mayflower landed march, 21, 1621
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∙ 11y agoThey arrived in 1492.
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∙ 14y agoPeople first settled in America in 1854.
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