10 Fascinating Facts About the First Americans

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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

10 Fascinating Facts About the First Americans: References & Edit History

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Jeff Wallenfeldt
Jeff Wallenfeldt was manager of Geography and History at Encyclopaedia Britannica.