They inhabited the region between 10,000 B.C. The earliest known inhabitants were members of what has been termed the Desert Archaic CultureвЂ“nomadic hunter-gatherers with developed basketry, flaked-stem stone tools, and implements of wood and bone. Archaeological reconstructions suggest human habitation stretching back some 12,000 years. вЂњLong before Euro-Americans entered the Great Basin, substantial numbers of people lived within the present boundaries of Utah. Ocean water locked up in glacial ice lowered sea levels to the point where a corridor up to 1600km or more wide existed between Siberia and Alaska. That a land bridge between Asia and North America existed during the last ice age is strongly supported by geological evidence. вЂ (European Voyages of Exploration: Latin America University of Calgary The Applied History Research Group) вЂThe earliest inhabitants of America were hunters who migrated from the Asian mainland across the Bering Straits land bridge between 40,000 and 25,000 B.C.E. Then down the coast of the Pacific, near the coast but seldom on it, little tribes of Athabascan stock mark the trail of a great southern migration which may or may not have brought the ancestors of the Navajos. From Bering Strait to the shores of Hudson Bay and from the Arctic Ocean to the American line, the native inhabitants are chiefly Athabascans. The Navajos say they came from the north and archaeologists bear them out. The Navajo, are the largest Native American group in North America. In the Navajo language, the word вЂњDinГ©tahвЂќ means вЂњamong the peopleвЂќ. Unfortunately, the colonial era was neither the start nor the end of the long, dark history of treatment of Native Americans by Europeans and their decedentвЂ™sВ throughout in the United States.This is the story of the DinГ©, The People, as the Navajos call themselves and there migration to DinГ©tah.ДinГ©tah is the traditional homeland of the Navajo tribe of Native Americans. These problems that arose for the Native Americans would only get worse in the 19thВ century, leading to greater confinement and the extermination of native people. There were even Native Americans shipped out of colonies like South Carolina into slavery in other places, like Canada. As a result of the wars between the European nations, Native Americans allied with the losing side were often indentured or enslaved. With the population sick and decreasing, it became more and more difficult to mount an opposition to European expansion.ДЄnother aspect of the colonial era that made the Native Americans vulnerable was the slave trade. Though many epidemics happened prior to the colonial era in the 1500s, several large epidemics occurred in the 17thВ and 18thВ centuries among various Native American populations. European settlers brought these new diseases with them when they settled, and the illnesses decimated the Native Americans-by some estimates killing as much as 90 percent of their population. Native Americans were also vulnerable during the colonial era because they had never been exposed to European diseases, like smallpox, so they didnвЂ™t have any immunity to the disease, as some Europeans did. This caused rifts that kept some Native American tribes from working together to stop European takeover. Another consequence of allying with Europeans was that Native Americans were often fighting neighboring tribes. Europeans continued to enter the country following the French and Indian War, and they continued their aggression against Native Americans. The English-allied Native Americans were given part of that land, which they hoped would end European expansion-but unfortunately only delayed it. The English won the war, and claimed all of the land east of the Mississippi River. The English allied with the Iroquois Confederacy, while the Algonquian-speaking tribes joined forces with the French and the Spanish. Some famous alliances were formed during the French and Indian War of 1754вЂ“1763. In the 17thВ century, as European nations scrambled to claim the already occupied land in the вЂњNew World,вЂќ some leaders formed alliances with Native American nations to fight foreign powers. But problems arose for the Native Americans, which held them back from their goal, including new diseases, the slave trade, and the ever-growing European population in North America. They resisted the efforts of the Europeans to gain more of their land and control through both warfare and diplomacy. During the colonial period, Native Americans had a complicated relationship with European settlers.

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