What are the latest theories or facts on how the Native American migrated to America?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States

Answer 2

Bering Strait Land Bridge theory
Considerable anthropological and genetic evidence shows that most Native Americans descend from people who migrated from Siberia across the Bering Strait. The migration occurred between 15,000 and 9,000 BC, where the Bering Strait is today. The traditional theory has held that this migration was via the Bering Land Bridge, a land mass present due to the ice age and a lower level of ocean.[1] The exact epoch and route are still a matter of controversy. Continual challenges are issued to this model, which are described in detail at Models of migration to the New World.

Answer 3

The latest theories are the old History theories.....People were believed to migrate from Asia when the Bering land bridge froze in the winter.....entered (now) Alaskan territory and populated the lands available over time.....Simple?

Answer 4

Bering Strait Theory
Why do American Indians get so mad when you say their ancestors migrated across the Bering land bridge from Asia?

Well, there are several reasons. First of all, that contradicts the religious tradition of many native peoples, which claim we have always been here. Surely you know some white people who claim that the earth can't be thousands of years old because it conflicts with the Bible. It is the same principle--except that the Christian fundamentalists get a lot of attention and even nice mentions in textbooks, whereas the Indians are ignored. That gives them an extra reason to be mad.

However, though there is a wide spectrum of native religions in the Americas, most of them tend to be less hierarchical and more flexible than Christianity. If you asked most Indians in some respectful manner, I think you'd find most of them wouldn't have a problem reconciling a philosophical belief that we have lived here since time immemorial with natural evidence that we arrived here at least 20,000 years ago. Why shouldn't they both be true? The Creator is great, we don't always understand the whole world.

But now the problem is, most of us have not been asked this in a respectful manner. Instead, a lot of people have used this Bering Strait bridge theory to belittle Native Americans as "not really native" (a claim that is stupid as well as insulting, since the same scientific facts they use to show the immigration theory also clearly show we have been here at least 20,000 years--longer than men have inhabited England.) Furthermore, missionaries in the past commonly ignored our religious traditions as inferior to scientific findings-- while at the same time touting their own religious traditions as superior to science. Is it any wonder that this sort of hypocrisy makes Indians angry?

So, if some native people disagree with my conclusion that the Bering Strait theory is probably true, that's fine with me. I respect the religious beliefs of people who believe their ancestors were here since the beginning of time, and I respect the scientific knowledge of the world that suggests we inhabited our homeland more than 20,000 years ago. What I do NOT respect are:

1) people who insist that we are a lost tribe of Israel who immigrated here, no matter what science says, because their religion says so. If we are using religion as our measuring stick, then our religious traditions about where we came from matter much more than someone else's. Use your religion to tell your own story and leave us out of it.

2) people who insist that we have been here only 700, 1000, or 2000 years. If we are using science as our measuring stick, then all the scientific evidence is that the Americas have been inhabited for at least 20,000 years. There are even ruins which are known to be 12,000 years old. To use science to prove we are immigrants here and then ignore how long science says we have been here is hypocritical.

If you don't fall in either of those categories, then your respectful decision to believe in the Bering Strait migration theory or not is of no consequence to me. As long as we are all agreed that Indians have lived on these lands for at least 20,000 years, about twice as long as anyone has lived in England, then I don't think we have anything to quarrel about.

Answer 5

They came over by walking across on a land bridge between Russia and Alaska around 50,000 years ago and then migrated south.

Answer 6

Walked over from Asia. By Alaska

Answer 7

Originally Asian, from Siberia they mostly crossed over the Bering Strait down into Alaska and etc. etc.

Answer 8

Thru the Lincoln Tunnel ...

Answer 9

they were supposed to come from siberia and passed the strait of bering

Answer 10

they looked like a cross between asian and hispanic. Probably were fillipion indians.

Answer 11

Are you stupid?We were here first..always have been and always will be!
"This land is my land..this land ain't your land....North Carolina...to the Alaskan waters..this land was made for only we."