It’s the 250th birthday of the Unites States of America. However, the history of our country goes back well beyond that.
About 500 years before Columbus, Leif Erikson landed in what is today Canada. Following Columbus was John Cabot in 1497 and Ponce de Leon in 1513.
The city of St. Augustine was established in 1565, and Jamestown was founded in 1607, followed by the Mayflower, which landed in 1620. All of them found people already living here. Call them “Indigenous Peoples”, “First Peoples”, “Native Americans”, Columbus called them “Indians”, whatever, but they were already here.
Proof that people were here for a long, long time exists in the form of human footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico that date back 23,000 years.
People were everywhere from the tundra to the tip of So…