The for fathers to all the Indian tribes who populated the American continent at the white mans arrival, came from Asia. The first Indians emigrated from Asia to America about 30, 000 years ago, they were primitive hunters of Mongolian descent, who came over the Bering passage searching for food. The Indians got settled down in the new country, and for thousands of years new waves of immigrants followed on behind.

Gradually the older immigrants got pushed away further to the south and west, until they finally had been spread out over the hole North and South America, and gradually both of the continent got populated. Some of the Indians kept on further south, others settled down along the west cost, and some kept on east till the Atlantic cost or further into the big wooded territories, while some tribes settled down on the wide spread prairie.

Many people thinks that all Indians look a like because that's what they are use to see on movies and television. But that's all wrong in reality the Indians wasn't just one big nation. Just like the people in Europe they belonged to different kind of nations, or tribes. There is just as a big different between a Sioux-Indian and a Apache, as it is between the people in Sweden and the people in Italy or Spain. Nobody really know for sure how many Indian tribes there were in North America when the first white man came, but they think it was about 400 tribes.