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  1. May 6, 2021 · Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Native Americans lived as autonomous nations (also known as tribes) across the continent from present-day Alaska, across Canada, and throughout the lower 48 United States.

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  2. Prior to European colonization, the area that is now McCaysville was inhabited by the Cherokee people and other Indigenous peoples for thousands of years. The town is also the center of an adoption scandal.

  3. Apr 1, 2023 · Estimating the Native American population before 1492 has long been a subject of debate among historians and archaeologists. While it’s difficult to arrive at precise figures, most scholars agree that millions of indigenous people inhabited the Americas before European contact.

  4. Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before European colonization have been difficult to establish. Estimates have varied widely from as low as 8 million to as many as 100 million, though many scholars gravitated toward an estimate of around 50 million by the end of the 20th century.

  5. By 1492, millions of people had lived in the Western Hemisphere for tens of thousands of years across an area five times the size of Europe with distinct languages and cultures.

  6. Jan 1, 2006 · The history of American Indians before European contact is broadly divided into three major periods: the Paleo-Indian period, the Archaic period (8000–1000 b.c.), and the Woodland period (1000 b.c.–1600 a.d.).

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  8. Europeans' enslavement of Native Americans began with Columbus. As the governor of Hispaniola, he forced the Taino Indians to labor in the Spanish fields and mines, and he brought Taino slaves to Spain on his return journeys.

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