Examples of Paleo-Indian in the following topics:
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- Paleo-Indians subsisted as small, mobile groups of big game hunters, traveling light and frequently to find new sources of food.
- Paleo-Indians, or Paleo-Americans, were the first peoples
who entered and subsequently inhabited the American continent.
- The Paleo-Indian
would eventually flourish all over the Americas, creating regional variations
in lifestyles.
- During much of
the Early and Middle Paleo-Indian periods, inland bands are thought to have
subsisted primarily through hunting now-extinct megafauna.
- The Lithic peoples, or Paleo-Indians, were nomadic hunter-gatherers and are the earliest known humans of the Americas.
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- Civilization in America began during the last Ice Age when nomadic Paleo-Indians migrated across Beringia.
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archeological evidence suggests that the Paleo-Indians' first dispersal into
the Americas occurred near the end of the LGM.
- As early Paleo-Indians spread throughout the Americas, they diversified into
many hundreds of culturally distinct tribes.
- Paleo-Indian adaptation across
North America was likely characterized by small, highly mobile bands consisting
of approximately 20 to 50 members of an extended family.
- It is believed that a small Paleo-Indian population of a few thousand survived the Last Glacial Maximum in Beringia.
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- Many separate indigenous cultures
developed and prospered in North America after the first waves of nomadic
Paleo-Indians migrated to the continent across Beringia near the end of the
Last Glacial Maximum.
- Civilization in America
began during the last Ice Age when nomadic Paleo-Indians migrated across
Beringia.
- Some genetic research indicates that secondary waves of migration
occurred after the initial Paleo-Indian colonization, but prior to modern
Inuit, Inupiat, and Yupik expansions.
- The Paleo-Indians would eventually
flourish all over the Americas, creating regional variations in lifestyles
while sharing a common style of stone tool production.
- Three of the major cultural
traditions that impacted the Southwest region include the Paleo-Indian
tradition, the Southwestern Archaic tradition, and the Post-Archaic cultures
tradition.
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- Genetic studies, archaeological evidence, and scientific dating methods suggest that Paleo-Indians originated out of Africa and Asia.
- Genetic evidence found in Paleo-Indians' mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) supports the theory of multiple genetic populations migrating from Asia.
- Early Paleo-Indian groups could have readily replenished their food supplies, repaired clothing and tents, and replaced broken or lost tools.
- Coastal or "watercraft" theories have broad implications, one being that Paleo-Indians in North America may not have been purely terrestrial big-game hunters, but instead were already adapted to maritime or semi-maritime lifestyles.
- The route then crossed into the Arabian Peninsula, settling in places like the present-day United Arab Emirates and Oman, and then possibly going into the Indian Subcontinent.
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- A number of scientific studies into genetics, time-dating, and paleo-environmental data have been conducted to test these theories.
- Genetic evidence found in Amer-Indians' mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) supports the theory of multiple, distinct genetic populations migrating from Asia.
- Over the course of millennia, these Paleo-Indians spread throughout North and South America.
- The Lithic stage or Paleo-Indian period is defined initially as a big-game period.
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- Paleo-Indians were not numerous, and population densities were quite low during this time.
- Ute religious beliefs borrowed heavily from Plains Indians after the
arrival of the horse.
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- These early Paleo-Indians soon spread throughout the Americas, diversifying into many hundreds of culturally distinct nations and tribes.
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- Three of
the major cultural traditions that impacted the region include the
Paleo-Indian tradition, the Southwestern Archaic tradition, and the Post-Archaic
cultures tradition.
- The American Indian Archaic culture eventually evolved into
two major prehistoric archaeological culture areas in the American Southwest
and northern Mexico.
- For the Pueblos and other Southwest American Indian communities, the transition from a hunting-gathering, nomadic experience to more
permanent agricultural settlements meant more firmly established families and
communities.
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- Some 44,000 American Indians served in the United States military during World War II.
- At the time, this was one-third of all able-bodied Indian men from 18 to 50 years of age and 10% of all Indian population.
- The overwhelming majority of American Indians welcomed the opportunity to serve.
- Many military awards offered to American Indian soldiers were later used during the termination period by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as proof that American Indians were eager to assimilate into white mainstream American culture.
- The war's aftermath, says historian Allison Bernstein, marked a "new era in Indian affairs" and turned "American Indians" into "Indian Americans."
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- The fight for American Indian rights expanded in the 1960s, resulting in the creation of the American Indian Movement.
- With the passage of the Indian Civil Rights Act (ICRA) in 1968, also called the Indian Bill of Rights, American Indians were guaranteed - at least on paper - many civil rights.
- After decades of unequal schooling between American Indian children and white children, often stemming from racist policies and insufficiently funded schools, the National Indian Education Association (NIEA) was formed in 1969 to fight for equal education for American Indians.
- One of the primary advocacy organizations for American Indian Rights, the American Indian Movement (AIM), was also formed during the 1960s.
- The American Indian Movement (AIM) is an activist organization in the United States founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by urban American Indians.