Archaeologists know that people have lived in the land now called Ohio for at least 13,000 years. Thanks to discoveries such as some Ice Age ground sloth bones marked by humans as tools that are at least that old. Thousands of years after these old hunters lived, other Native American tribes including the Erie, Kickapoo, and Shawnee lived on the land. Later the French came to explore Ohio. They later settled the area as fur traders. Later the British took the land. Ohio became part of the US after French and Indian War. The day Ohio became a state was March 1, 1803. It was the seventh state. The capital is Columbus.