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History of Indigenous peoples of North America

  • InuitAround 1000 CE, the Thule people emerged from the Bering Strait and western Alaska. They split from related Aleut groups about 4000 years ago before…
  • Mississippian cultureThe Mississippi River Valley became the cradle for a transformation that began around 800 CE. Late Woodland societies abandoned tribal lifeways to adopt…
  • MesoamericaThe term Mesoamerica literally means middle America in Greek, yet it refers to a specific cultural zone rather than a simple geographic midpoint.