Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 2, Lesson 1: Discovering the First Californians (pp. 32-36)
I. First Californians
B. Scientists believe that early hunters arrived in what is now California about 12,000 years ago.
C. The hunters followed animals across the land bridge from Asia.
D. Slowly these hunters made their way southward and eastward across North America.
II. Scientists Find Clues to Early Life
B. Archaeologist Stuart Streuver discovered the earliest permanent homes in North America.
III. People Live in Tribes
B. A group of people who live in the same area, are related to each other, speak the same language, and have similar religious beliefs are called a tribe.
C. Native Americans belong to two nations -- their tribal nation and the United States of America.
D. By 1492, more than 100 tribes lived all over California.
E. Since the first European settlers thought that the Americas were India, they called the Native Americans "Indians."
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. Most Native American groups living in California today believe that their people have always lived in North America.
A. Scientists, called archaeologists, search for objects and other clues that tell them about the past.
A. The first people in California lived in villages along the coast or by rivers and streams.
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