Wikipedia is far from being a reliable, vetted source! They were here before the mass of Europeans but the first explorers and settlers were Europeans, who pre-dated the Asians ( NOT Indians) by thousands of years. They've found ancient European runes as far over as Colorado One of my minors was Sociology and the other Anthropology, so this stuff is right down my ally. Columbus.....being the dumba## that he was, thought he had landed in India and called them Indians. They were Asians! They crossed over the Bearing Strait about 1200 yrs. before Columbus got here but like I said, that was still several thousand yrs. after the white man had come here. Be careful not to put too much weight on the crap you see/hear in the mass media, which is all owned/controlled by the same people! The very people who try to convince you that the war between the states was about slavery, Confederates were/are racists etc.