These people began migrating thirty thousand years before Christopher Colombus
'discovered' the Americas. Native Americans migrated from Asia, crossing a land bridge
where the Bering Strait off the coast of Alaska is today. Over the centuries these people
spread throughout the continents of North and South America. Since the arrival of the
Europeans in 1492 the American Indian has been dehumanized, decivilized and redefined
into terms that represent a dominate European view. The Spanish explorers under
Colombus were the first to use the terms 'Indian' to mean a Native American. These
expl…
