The earliest people in the Americas were people of the African race, who entered the Americas perhaps as early as 100,000 years ago, by way of the bering straight and about thirty thousand years ago in a worldwide maritime undertaking journeys.
The Journey was from the then wet and lake filled Sahara towards the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, and from West Africa across the Atlantic Ocean towards the Americas. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1287792924386877443?s=19