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The west coast of the Americas was probably first peopled by groups migrating across the land/ice bridge that connected northwest North America and northeast Asia, tens of thousands of years ago.

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The first to discover it were the ancestors of the American Indians, who came over from Siberia several thousand years ago. The first Europeans to "discover" NA were probably Vikings from Scandinavia, around 1000 AD.

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