Native Culture Prior to Contact with Europeans The Aboriginal people of Canada are believed to have came here by means of walking. There are two main theories of the way they arrived here; the theory believed by anthropologists and archeologists is that the Aboriginals migrated from Asia and into Alaska and then down to the Americas; therefore, they believe that all Aboriginal people are descendants of Asians. By Aboriginal people and their religions, they believe that they originated in Canada. Today, we do not know them only as the Aboriginal people but also Native Americans, First Nations people, and (probably the most common to us whit