The Arrival of Native Americans and Columbus

tribes from Siberia to cross over into the far western edge of the American continent,

arriving in what we now call Alaska and parts of Canada, but finding the cold just as severe

there, they moved gradually south until a completely different world opened before them,

one filled with lush plains, greenery, and warmer weather, a land that is now

known as the United States, and the tribes found this new world suitable for life,

so they settled and flourished over thousands of years while the ice bridge eventually melted,

once again separating America and Russia, and the descendants of these Mongoloid tribes became the

early Native Americans living peacefully on their land until the year 1492 when the Spanish explorer