Illustrated by S.D. Nelson
For thousands of years nomadic people from east Asia followed caribou walking east. Sometime around 0 000BC, they crossed the land bridge into North America. These waves of people are the ancestors of 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 of two from each region of the country: the Taino, the Iroquois, the Adena, the Anasazi, the Kwakiutl and the Timucua.
Ages: 9-12
