The land bridge, now recalled as Beringia, as the first gateway to Alaska. The Eskimos: Flexible Residents of the Arctic. The Athabascans: Nomads of the Interior. The Northwest Coast Indians. From the Russian Empire to the United States of America.
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Alaska from the land called Beringia No one knows exactly when people first found the land that would be called Alaska. Some anthropologists believe that people migrated from Asia to North America as long as 40,000 years ago. Others argue it was as recent as 15,000 years ago. Whenever, the consensus is that they came from Asia by way of a northern land bridge that once connected Siberia and Alaska. That land bridge, now recalled as Beringia, was the first gateway to Alaska. But these first visitors were hardly tourists intent on exploring new worlds. Rather they were simply pursuing their subsistence way of life as they followed great herds of grazing mammals across the grassy tundra and gentle steppes of Beringia. They came sporadically through many millennia in waves of different ethnic backgrounds/generations of people and animals hunters and hunted. As the Ice Age drew to an end and the seas claimed the land, these people moved to higher and drier places-the land that, as the continents drifted apart, wou