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10 Fascinating Facts About the First Americans: Media

Exploring life before Columbus.

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An Eskimo family wears fur parkas.
Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital. id. cph 3b36217)
Cape Espenberg
Cape Espenberg, the northern tip of the Seward Peninsula, Bering Land Bridge National...
Michael J. Thompson/U.S. National Park Service
Athabaskan languages
Distribution of Athabaskan languages.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington,...
© Cvandyke/Dreamstime.com
Ceremonial center
Cahokia as it may have appeared c. 1150 ce; painting...
Courtesy of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site; painting by Michael Hampshire
sketch of the Algonquin village of Pomeiock
Sketch of the Algonquin village of Pomeiock, near present-day Gibbs Creek, North...
© Photos.com/Getty Images
A Navajo woman, left, spins yarn while a girl weaves a rug on a loom.
United States Bureau of Indian Affairs
Statue of Hiawatha, Ironwood, Mich.
Charles Cegielski
George Catlin: Buffalo Hunt, Chase
Buffalo Hunt, Chase, painting by George Catlin, 1844.
Yale University Art Gallery, Mabel Brady Garvan Collection (1946.9.572)
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris: The First Thanksgiving
The First Thanksgiving, reproduction of an oil painting by Jean Leon Gerome...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZC4-4961)