num_pages: 125
description: The absorbing story of the first people to set foot in North America and the many cultures of their descendants.For thousands of years nomadic people from east Asia followed caribou walking east. Sometime around 20,000 BCE, they crossed the land bridge into North America. These waves of people are the ancestors to every culture on the continent. Tony Aveni, whose expertise is the scientific, mathematical, and cultural accomplishments of the first Americans, celebrates the disparate cultures by highlighting one or two from each region of the country: the Taino, the Iroquois, the Adena, the Anasazi, the Kwakiutl, and the Timucua.
language: English
title: The First Americans: The Story of Where They Came from and Who They Became
titlecomplete: The First Americans: The Story of Where They Came from and Who They Became
genres: Nonfiction, American History, History
ratings_count: 16
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Spur Award
category: Best Juvenile Nonfiction
publisher: Scholastic Corporation