[El Gato]

So you figure that South America was settled by America before the continental drift?

No where near that long ago. During or after the last ice age, IIRC. But the people, who came in at least two "waves", the second of which are the American Indians who were here when the Europeans arrived, came from Asia. Exactly how they got here is still something of a mystery. They may have hopped along the coast in small boats, or they may have walked accross a "land bridge" that may have existe at the time.

[William Terrell]

The Mexican area was settled by Indians in America after the continents separated to look pretty much as they do? Mexicans don't look very much like a full-blooded American Indians. They look more like the people in South America.

As you travel across the Texas border the people change. As you travel down into Mexico and on through Guatemala and Honduras and on into South America, the people look the same.

[Torie]

The first Amerindians came during the last ice age, and there was a land bridge where the Bering Sea currently sits, since the oceans were lower. That's the theory anyway.