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The coastal route hypothesis is based on the idea that the first people to inhabit North America traveled by boat down the Pacific coast, living in areas of ice-free land, called refugia, along the way. They may have hunted some land animals, but they also would have fished and hunted sea mammals. Once they reached lands south of the ice sheets, some groups then made their way inland and settled in central and southern North America. These people were the ancestors of the people who later made a
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[Chumash Creation Story (Santa Cruz](<a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0iyd68oBok)' >Chumash Creation Story</a>
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Senator Thomas Hart Benton on Manifest Destiny (1846) It would seem that the White race alone received the divine command, to subdue and replenish the earth: for it is the only race that has obeyed it-the only race that hunts out new and distant lands, and even a New World, to subdue and replenish . . . . The Red race has disappeared from the Atlantic coast; the tribes that resisted civilization met extinction. This is a cause of lamentation with many. For my part, I cannot murmur at what seem
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