Native American
Abstract When Hispanics from the south and Europeans from the east arrived in the what is now the United States, they found a large number of peoples who, for the most part, had discovered America several millennia earlier. It seems likely that most of these first Americans had come from Central Asi...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
1999
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195117837.003.0002 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52440038/isbn-9780195117837-book-part-2.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract When Hispanics from the south and Europeans from the east arrived in the what is now the United States, they found a large number of peoples who, for the most part, had discovered America several millennia earlier. It seems likely that most of these first Americans had come from Central Asia over the Bering Strait and that they had brought their traditions with them-complex creation myths, related shamanistic rituals, and an animistic sense of a living nature suffused with spiritual power. |
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