>>512832161 (OP)
i think what people dont reailze is, that the "indigenous peoples" or the "natives" were all slaves at some point. none of them are from those places, they were brought there and bred for labor.
there was a world empire long ago over 4,000 years ago. but it collapsed and people were cut off from each other, but then rediscovered each other again. so when the one half of the world reconnected with the other, it was assumed the people already living there were "natives" and so on. no just the survivors of that world empire. they had their stories, myths and legends.
and the thing is,for a lot of those former slaves it didn't leave them much to work with on their own. because the one world empire provided trade for everyone else in the world. so many things became impossible for isolated people to do without those resources and knowledge. so they lived off the land minimally like the nomads did before civilation, immediately after the flood.
perhaps some of the "natives" did get there because their ancestors were nomads who traveled through the mountains and across land bridges or sailed along the coasts until they eventually reached a new land. but i think thats what the first empire did, they're the ones who sailed there, and brought people.. and made them mine resources or grow whatever it might be to then be shipped back to other sides of the empire, especially to the center of it in Mesopotamia.
the thing is, the "natives" of the north americas most especially, they were fewer and far between. and thats because the Americas were mostly covered in water for many centuries after the flood and ice age. it took time for massive lakes to eventually overfill due to exessive stormins and melting glaciers and rivers feeding into them. and for a time only the mountains of the Americas were above the sea. its where legends of Atlantis originate from, its why the central and south american civilizations were built in the mountains, the sea level was higher