Maps for American Indian Studies
Maps for Iroquois / Haudenosausanee
Maps for Sioux
Maps for the Trail of Tears Cherokee + other "Civilized Tribes"
Maps for Chippewa / Anaashinable
Maps for Bering Land Bridge Between 20,000 & 10,000 years ago, as ice ages came and went,
ancestors of Native American Indians These Asian peoples continued migrating from North America to
Central & South America and the Caribbean
Location of Bering Strait / Bering Land Bridge Note how close eastern Asia (Siberia) is to Northwest North America (Alaska) The area of water separating the two continents is known as "the Bering Strait."
Asian Peoples' routes into Americas by Bering Land Bridge
American Indians' ancestors did not necessarily walk on ice to cross the Bering Land Bridge. The reason the land bridge emerged was not because of accumulated snowfall and ice, but because the Ice Ages drew much of earth's water into ice, lowering sea levels and exposing land (specifically, continental shelf) that was previoulsy only a few feet below sea level. Global warming and climate change are causing opposite effects today, as melting ice at the North Pole and Antarctica raise sea levels.
Literary and cultural significance of Asian-American Indian connection: American Indians--or Indian-descended Americans--may resemble Asians: dark hair, dark eyes, epicanthic folds in eyes
Literature depicting American Indian soldiers fighting for the U.S. against Japanese (World War 2) or Vietnamese (Vietnam War) comment on irony of two Asian-descended peoples fighting, when both of them might oppose European-Americans.
Native festival in Anadyr, city in Russia's autonomous region of Chukotka, part of wider region known as Beringia.
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