Early Peoples
Early inhabitants of this global villagea place in the world where your ancestor may have lived, the world is divided into cultural areas, each area designated as a global village, see the Global Villages Map., arrived 12 to 20,000 years ago, hailing from the North, by land or by sea – or perhaps both. They spoke a variety of languages and had tribal customs, traditions, and shamans for religious and healing purposes.
These early peoples who crossed the Bering Strait by foot, or those that may have arrived by sea, had enough technologythe system by which a society provides its members with things needed or desired, along with knowledge for the use and maintenance of the system More and material cultureMaterial culture: all tangible objects, which are created, used, kept, and/or left behind by past and present cultures. In other words, the physical evidence of human experience. Material culture may be dwellings, pottery, tools, furniture, weapons, ornaments, art, and/or complete structures of cities. to satisfy the basic needs of hunting, gathering, and fishing. They made nets, wove baskets, and lived in dwellings that were made of environmental resources or animal hides. They often used both timber and bones for the framework of their homes. The early populations spread across the continent in all directions, and they lived thousands of years within the North American region, developing unique and often isolated cultures depending upon where they settled.
Becoming Anglo
After the first inhabitants, described as Native Americans, arrived in North America, another group of people arrived by sea around 1,000 AD. They are believed to be from Scandinavia and are commonly called Norsemen. The Norsemen stopped over in Greenland before continuing to the northeast coast of Canada.
Scholars do not know for sure if these new seafarers interacted with the First NationsA term used to describe Indigenous peoples in Canada who are not Metis or Inuit. First Nations people are original inhabitants of the land that is now Canada; and they were the first to encounter sustained European contact, settlement and trade. of Canada. (Native Americans) The ruins of their settlements were discovered in the 1960s in Newfoundland. Now, however, new evidenceproof, such as testimony, documents, records, certificates, material objects, etc. More from material cultureculture is not genetically inherited, it is shared, learned, and dynamic- never static suggests that Viking traders, even further north, may have interacted on friendly terms with at least one native population known as the Dorset people.
The pre-historic Dorset culture and people are said to have thrived in the Canadian eastern Arctic and as far south as Newfoundland from about 800 BC to 1300 AD. They are named the Dorset people only because the ruins of their settlements were first excavated at a place known as Cape Dorset on Baffin Island, located in Canada among the Arctic Archipelago. The little-known and very remote Baffin Island is the largest island in Canadian territory and the fifth largest island in the world. The people inhabiting this island may be another faction of the Native Inuit culture (formerly called Eskimo). There is much speculation concerning the Viking era in the New World, but it ended around the 14th century for reasons still being contemplated.
After the Viking era, in 1497, John Cabot staked claim to the New World for Anglo-Britain. He was on a mission for King Henry VII, (King of England from 1485-1509) looking for another route to Asia.
Christopher Columbus arrived earlier in the New World on his first voyage of 1492-1493, but he never actually set foot on the mainland of North America. His early island outposts, however, became the launching pads for all those who followed his exploratory paths.
The first successful colony by the British was not established until 1607, and that first Anglo-cultural heartha fireside or bottom of a fire pit or fireplace, where a family group may gather, or a place where a group or family activity might be centered is located in what is now the statea state is an independent political entity with a centralized government and set geographical boundaries where control is exercised by police or military; a state claims the right to defend itself from both internal and external threats by use of force; a state may have many villages and cities and/or millions or billions of people as in China and India of Virginia. Early pilgrims followed in 1620, landing in Massachusetts; and America’s Thanksgiving holiday is patterned after the legenda traditional story popularly regarded as historical truth but unauthenticated (the legend of King Arthur) More of their friendly interactions with the Native peoples they encountered.
Unfortunately, such friendly interactions were short-lived, and the rest is a recorded history of complex struggles for several centuries between the Native Americans and the influx of immigrants from many parts of the Old World.
In today’s Anglo-American Global Villagethe Anglo-American culture region is all of North America plus Alaska and Iceland and the included islands in the region, such as the Baffin Island of Canada - and excludes Mesoamerica below the Mexican-American border, both Anglos and Native Americans live among hundreds of immigrants from different countries who bring new languages, customs, and cultures to the North American continent.
Such diverse populations and cultures could not live in peace without the stable governments of Canada and the United States, which strive to provide multi-cultural policies that promote freedom, and opportunity for all in this extremely diverse Anglo-American Global Village.