10 Fascinating Facts About the First Americans: Quick Facts

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An Eskimo family wears fur parkas.

Athabaskan languages

The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, features a curving, layered stone facade with large glass windows and a recessed entrance.

Ceremonial center

Watercolor sketch of the Algonquin village of Pomeiock, showing circular arrangement of huts and longhouses inside a wooden palisade, with people gathered around a central fire.

A Navajo woman, left, spins yarn while a girl weaves a rug on a loom.

Statue of Hiawatha, Ironwood, Mich.

George Catlin: Buffalo Hunt, Chase

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris: The First Thanksgiving

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Indigenous peoples of the Americas Native American Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains Indigenous peoples of the American Southeast Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest Northwest Coast Indian Northeast Indian Plateau Indian South American Indian Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin Indigenous peoples of California