ABSTRACT
Cultural Diversity in Pre-Columbian America, archeological scholarship has held that the first inhabitants of the North American continent crossed over the Bering Land Bridge around 13,000 b.c. The ever-precarious balance of nature became even more strained as the fur trade encouraged Native Americans colonists to overhunt and overkill. As the original Americans spread across the continent and southward into Central and South America, they developed a variety of indigenous societies. Native Americans in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres had long endeavored to "make sense" of their world and to prepare themselves and their children for survival in that world and happiness in the next. Education among the Native Americans although education among the Native Americans differed from tribe to tribe, the basic elements were similar. American Education concern, for they understood that the life of the tribe—the life of "the people"—could be preserved and extended only for as long as the rising generations followed the ways of the old.
