2006-08-29 01:29:55 · 29 answers · asked by jay c 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
No they are actually related to the asian people from the parts of Siberia, China and Japan. They crossed the Ice sea during the Ice age to inhabit the American continent which was up untill that moment uninhabited by man.
2006-08-29 01:33:57 · answer #1 · answered by peter gunn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. Columbus is the one to blame for this common confusion: when he reached the Americas he was convinced that he had arrived in India, that being the original purpose of his journey. The natives of the Americas Are since then, due to this mistake, called Indians, but there's actually no relationship between the American "Indians" and India.
2006-08-29 08:35:51 · answer #2 · answered by ptblueghost64 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES, but only very, very distantly. Others above have adequately explained the Chinese-Bering Strait connection.
You might want also to look at the data on the "Kennewick Man" found in the State of Washington, however. Early reports of these prehistoric human bones stirred up controversy: it was announced that his remains indicated that he was "Caucasoid," but not in the sense that he is a European. Scientists initially said he probably emigrated from Southern Asia (i.e. India) sometime between 5000 and 9500 years ago.
Later speculation centered more around Polynesia and the Ainu people of Japan.
And as someone above also wrote, we're really all Africans originally!
2006-08-29 10:19:31 · answer #3 · answered by mistersato 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Native American are related to Asiatics tribes. The fact that they are called Indians is because on the American discovery the conquerors where looking for other way to go to "the India's" and they thought that America was it.
Silly but true
2006-08-29 08:35:33 · answer #4 · answered by waterfall 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. its is once said a wise 1 would know the answer which was said.. it is not true bout the indians ar ancestrally in 1 way of another to india as it is split up in others
2006-08-29 11:43:59 · answer #5 · answered by boff1982 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are closer to inuits/chinese than Indians from India. (Bearing in mind that the latest majority idea is that we all come from Africa, but not going so far back...)
They are only called 'Indians' because the Americas were 'discovered' by Europeans while they were attempting to find a route to India. Once they saw land, being optimistic, they though tthey had made it, hence 'Indians'.
2006-08-29 08:38:35 · answer #6 · answered by ekonomix 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they have different blood types and the word Indian was incorrectly used with the Natives Americans coz some uneducated explorer from Europe thought he landed elsewhere.
2006-08-29 08:33:32 · answer #7 · answered by aussie3 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Why would they be. They are from entirely different continents.
Even the name Indian is incorrect for Native Americans.
2006-08-29 17:04:52 · answer #8 · answered by monkeyface 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - North American Indians also more correctly called Natives of North America are/were honourable, self sufficient persons who were practically annihilated by European whites. We have yet to start on the other (Asian) tribe.
2006-08-29 09:25:33 · answer #9 · answered by Arthur P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's true that Native America and Eskimoes are of Oriental descent.
There are two anomalies, Mayans and Incas. Though they bred with the native populations, I'm prone to believe they are of North African origin. Especially the Mayans. There are some theories connecting one or both of these to the theories connected to what has been named Atlantis.
2006-08-29 08:38:45 · answer #10 · answered by DexterLoxley 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋