Let's turn back the calendar about 40,000 years. A great Ice Age is in its prime and much of the northern hemisphere is blanketed with glaciers two and three miles thick. The shape of the land is different because of this weighty ice and there is a land bridge between Alaska and the Asian shores of Siberia.

We do not know when the first Indian, and perhaps his family crossed this bridge from the Old World to the New, we do not. Know who he was. In the following centuries, he was followed by many other wanderers from Asia and when at last the Ice Age receded, these explorers had taken possession the Americas. This may have been 400 centuries ago.  These original inhabitants of the North American continent are the true discoverers of North America.