Paleo-Indians, Paleoindians or Paleoamericans is a classification term given by scholars to the first peoples who entered, and subsequently inhabited, the Americas during the final glacial episodes of the late Pleistocene period.
In the 1850s they defended slavery in the United States, and promoted its expansion into the West against northern Free Soil opposition.
<span>They coped by maintaining their family system and friends, they kept tradition alive by naming their children after relatives and passing on stories, and also took comfort in religion</span>
