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American history tends to polarize into pre-Columbian an post-Columbian, even though there is credible evidence that Columbus was a relative late comer.
But there is a hypothesis that the Cherokee people of the eastern US were descendants of western Europeans, and were the precursors of the Clovis culture. One of the reasons for this is that there has been Clovis like tools found in Europe. They think that during the ice age, these nomadic people followed the terminus of the glaciations while hunting seals, and so crossed over to the eastern US/Canada.
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