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- [Announcer] This channel is part of the HistoryHit Network, stick around to find out more. - [Narrator] We have been here from the beginning. (tense music) Our ancestors navigated by the wind and stars. Crossing vast oceans and mountain ranges, searching for new lands. Over thousands of years, our ancestors became astronomers and architects, philosophers and scientists, artists, and inventors. We created distinct societies and built a vast trade systems that covered two continents. In 1492, our world was changed forever, but we did not disappear. Today, the languages and teachings of our ancestors remain. And these are the untold stories of the Americas before Columbus. (eerie music) When did the first people arrive in the Americas? Indigenous creation stories tell how our ancestors emerged as humans from the earth, the water, the sky, and the land below. Some people believe that we walked into the Americas on foot, across an ancient land bridge that once connected Asia and North Ame