Ellis Island is a famous former Port of Entry to the United States, a place most Americans can picture in their minds; seeing ships as they sailed under the Statue of Liberty into New York Harbor. Imagining the immigration of people on foot coming into America over the Bering Land Bridge requires a bit more imagination and study. Over 10,000 years ago people crossed the Bering Land Bridge into North America not to follow their dreams but to survive. They followed herds of large mammals, many of them now extinct, to hunt them for food and shelter, expanding their civilization into a new land. The people and the land are intertwined, including the people today who make it their passion to discover the history of America’s earliest immigrants.

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is a small remnant of the land bridge, also known as Beringia, protected for the study of these past cultures and to support the traditional lifestyles its residents present and future.

Take your own journey; view the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve artifact collection on-line.

"Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened".

Gerald White Johnson
American author