1. Where do we live?
Continent?
Country?
Province?
City?

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3. Lesson 2: Who are the First Occupants? Where did they live?

4. Who were the first people to live in North America?
Some call the first people to live in North America “Native Americans”
Some call them “Indians”
Some call them “indigenous”
What are we going to call the first people who lived in North America?
The First Occupants

5. The First Occupants: Where did they come from?
Archeologists and others who studied the First Occupants say that The First Occupants arrived in North America 30,000 years ago  a long time ago
Experts say that they crossed a ‘land bridge’ made out of ice

6. The First Occupants crossed from Asia to what is now Alaska into North America and South America

7. START
ASIA
ICE BRIDGE

8. What was covering North America before people got here?
ICE, ICE and MORE ICE!!!

9. THIS AREA MELTED LAST

10. The First Occupants lived where we are right now!!!
It is believed that people started to live where we are right now 6,000 years ago
There were three main groups of First Occupants living in our region:
The Iroquoians
The Algonkians
The Inuit

11. The first group: Iroquoians
Where did they live?
The St. Lawrence Valley

12. The second group: Algonkians Where did they live
The second group: Algonkians Where did they live? The Canadian Shield and the Appalachian Mountains

13. The third group: Inuit Where did they live
The third group: Inuit Where did they live? Northern Canada/Tundra region