from K-QED. This is one of those odd pieces of questioning that some of us hang on to our

entire lives. Our question asker this week grew up in the Bay Area.

Hi, my name is Ektor Perez,

and I teach English at Mountain View High School.

He's been wondering something since his school days.

Who were the first people here thousands of years ago?

It's been like a tickle in the back of my mind since a teacher of mine in middle school taught us about the

Bering Strait.

That's the land bridge formed when sea levels were lower during the Ice Age.

People journeyed across the Bering Strait from Asia into Alaska.

I have a real clear memory of the old social studies books with pictures of people

with animal furs fighting the wind.

Sixth grade Ekor was enthralled by the idea that from there, ancient peoples spread out

across the Americas.

But then I wondered who came here. Today on the show we're

learning about the first people to call the Bay Area home, how they came to be,

what early life was like, the destruction brought on by colonists and how they're nourishing

their language and culture today. I'm Katrina Schwartz and you're listening to

Bay Curious

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