First Americans Indigenous Original Americans Native Americans in America

[peopleofthecircle]

'America' used to refer to two continents, not just USA.

I think it is more accurate to include all native people of the twin continents as the 'First 'Americans'. Lets not divide ourselves up.

[johnnyhustle]

In 1959, the partial skeletal remains of an ancient woman estimated to be 10,000 years old were unearthed in Arlington Springs on Santa Rosa Island, one of the eight Channel Islands off the southern California coast. They were discovered by Phil C. Orr, curator of anthropology and natural history at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

[johnnyhustle]

The remains of the so-called Arlington Springs woman were recently reanalyzed by the latest radiocarbon dating techniques and were found to be approximately 13,000 years old. The new date makes her remains older than any other known human skeleton found so far in North America.

[johnnyhustle]

The discovery challenges the popular belief that the first colonists to North America arrived at the end of the last ice age about 11,500 years ago by crossing a Bering land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska and northwestern Canada.

[andreaspaw1944]

@kennit1000 America they found prove of humans from over 40000 years ago.

[johnnyhustle]

This 'Bering Strait' theory is purely propaganda. It was (and still is) perpetuated by the american euro-centric majority to somehow justify their greedy theft of our ancestral land and homes. This theory which is based not in science or history, but rather in american euro-centric propaganda, is taught in schools throughout the U.S. as if it were fact. Simply said - it is not. It is, what many of our Indigenous histories have mistakenly been dubbed, a myth.

[sbc2k1]

@johnnyhustle you are a retard! since the 1990's 1 person has walked to Russia from the U.S. and 2 people have walked to the U.S. from Russia... ACROSS THE ICE!!!! so i guess not only did it exist...but it still almost does in the winter... And as to no similarities in culture...THEY WERE ALL ANIMISTIC- And culture is mainly a product of environment... ancient Asian and Indigenous American language closely resembled each-other.. MOST IMPORTANTLY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ARE OF THE MONGLOID RACE.

[sbc2k1]

DNA in the nucleus is from both mother and father. Looking at mtDNA lets you compare people across many generations on the mother's side.

Scientists looked at mtDNA from many Native Americans and many Asians. Based on their DNA, Native Americans belong to five different groups. Groups 1-4 are closely related to Asian people. The fifth group is most closely related European or Western Asian people! So it seems most Native Americans are originally from Asia

[YumMoonPieFoReaI]

@johnnyhustle I don't see how that would justify anything, nor do I see why anyone would use that as a justification. They obviously had to get there somehow as people moved out of Africa so long ago. I wouldn't say they were Asian either. This doesnt really look like propaganda, as no on would use it as a "justication" for anything, and I don't see how you think someone would.

[YumMoonPieFoReaI]

@YumMoonPieFoReaI so why do you think it would be used as a justification. i dont get that logic..

do you mean that Americans might say "oh, well you're not native, you immigrated from the alaskan land bridge" or something? Because even if it were true, that wouldn't make you any less indigenous.

[johnnyhustle]

There are absolutely no similarities in the spiritual customs of Indigenous and Asian peoples. There are no similarities in diet. There are no similarities in the music in its uses, structures and instrument origins. So, with years of intense study finding that there exists absolutely no cultural connection, past or present, between Indigenous and Asian peoples, it can be very accurately concluded that the Indigenous people of this continent did not originate from Asian culture.

[sbc2k1]

@johnnyhustle Stanford University - Department of Genetics - 4reference

[johnnyhustle]

If the Indigenous people of this continent came from Asian people in the distant past, certainly there would remain remnants of Asian culture within the Indigenous cultures in North America. These 'Asian cultural remnants' simply do not exist. There are absolutely no similarities in any of the diverse languages of Indigenous peoples to Asian languages, historic and present.

[johnnyhustle]

If indeed there was such a thing as an 'ice-bridge', science clearly shows that it would be virtually impossible for any human migration to have occurred. Any attempt would have almost certainly resulted in death. It is also a reasonable possibility that this so called 'ice-bridge' never even existed at all!

[johnnyhustle]

There are many Indigenous sites, traditional teachings and calenders that pre-date the ice-age by tens of thousands of years. One such example is the Mohawk Nation calender. It is not the year 2000 for the Mohawk people, it is the year 33115. This is the number of years the Mohawk people have been recording an annual count.