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""A 15,000-year conversation between evidentiary science and the unblinking memory of a continent."" Before the ""conquest"" and before the ""frontier,"" there was the arrival. Gathering Fire is the definitive story of the first peoples to enter the Americas-a sequence of understanding that tracks the ingenious strategies and enduring values that allowed for a successful 15,000-year migration and adaptation to a new world. In this modern work of scholarship, we move beyond the ""whitewash"" of traditional history by giving equal weight to tribal oral histories and scientific evidentiary data. Ben Potter, PhD, a leading anthropological archaeologist from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, ""sets the table"" with the latest archaeological analysis, while Indigenous voices provide the lived context of a culture that has never forgotten its origins. Gathering Fire is more than a history book; it is a dialogue between equals, reconstructing the ""Peopling of the Americas"" as an active, ongoing story of human consciousness and environmental integrity.

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Gathering Fire is the story of the first peoples to enter the Americas, and the strategies and values that contibuted to a successful migration and adaptation to the new land they found. The story is told through chapters highlighting the perspecives of indigenous peoples themselves and the challenges and changes they face today in their own words. Ben Potter PhD, Anthropological Archaeologiist, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, ""sets the table"" as we understand this ""Peopling of the Americas"" today from a scientific point of view, one based on evidentiary fact and analysis of data sources. We give equal weight to tribal oral histories in this modern work of scholarship and storytelling to present a ""readers' view"" of science and cultural history as a conversation and hopefully understanding among equals. -Paul Smith

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Robert LundahlAnthropologist

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