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Article: From hunters & gatherers to settlers and traders.
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- October 1, 2003
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Many groups of Indians originally inhabited the land now called the southeastern United States before Europeans arrived during the 1500s. (See the map on page 12 for a look at the southeastern area.) Like all other Indian groups in North America, those in the Southeast probably migrated to Alaska across the Beringia land bridge from Russia's Siberia. Some scientists believe these Paleo-Indians may have begun crossing anywhere from 14,000 to 50,000 and possibly even 100,000 years ago.
The earliest Indians gathered roots and berries and hunted large animals, including mastodons, giant beavers, bears, sloths, woolly rhinoceros, long-horned bison, antelope, moose, ...