Early Native American Life

Early Native American Life
Contrary to popular beliefs, America was not discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, nor was it discovered by the pilgrims in 1620. It was actually discovered millenniumsbefore either of those voyages. The first native Americans are believed to have crossed the Berring Strait somewhere around 40,000 B.C. They were a proud people who were well in touch with their natural surroundings, never hunting for sport or leaving anything of there prey to waste.
The Subarctic was a region that horizontally spanned across the entire continent of North America and vertically covered a large portion of what is today known as Canada. In the Subarctic, life revolved around getting food. Tribes such as the Beavers, Kaskas, Hans, and Tananas were nomadic hunters, fishers, and forgers who got around on foot. The Subarctic cultures generally used wood, bone, horn, and antlers as utensils more frequently than stone. For ropes and cloth the used raw hide and ...