I think your question is important, but it first requires some 'house cleaning' on the issue of 'race' - Race, as a term, is very antiquated and insufficient, since it has had more negative connotations than the term 'blood'. Race has almost always been in use in the discussion of segregation, and comparison of one race to another. Reading through some 19th century anthropology books, you will find the most ridiculous comparisons between races.
Ethiopia is home to many different people of different origin (as opposed to any Scandinavian country, where there has been much less intermingling of persons of diverse backgrounds.) The problem with trying to understand the origins of countries, particularly those that have primarily had an oral-history tradition, is that the records of migrations have been very few. A great number of theories have been brought up (again, only theories) of countires in east and east-central Africa. It's been suggested that there have been migrations from China and the Middle East. The Chinese migration has been disputed.
What is known about the Cush (or Kush) empire is that is a vast and very old culture, having an untranslatable language left in some ruins. Were we able to translate this, there would perhaps be some important information.
I do not know of any studies that have been done about blood relatedness between Ethiopian and Native American blood (if indeed you are speaking of Native Americans as opposed to Indians of the country of Indian.) So I would say that they are not likely to be related. However, it think it's wrong to cage the discussion between terms like '***** blood' and 'caucasian blood' - both terms, again, being really, really antiquated and far too limiting in their scope. Africa holds a great percentage of the world's languages, cultures and is known to hold some of the earliest examples of mankind's existence on earth. The northern and eastern regions of the continent have been far more exposed to trade and international communication than central Africa, therefore it is likely that the population has incorporated more influence (both by blood and culture) from other countries.
2006-09-07 00:40:01
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answered by johngreenink 2
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No. Most Ethiopians are of ***** descent, whereas Indians are considered Caucasian.
Ethiopia's population is highly diverse. Most of its people speak a Semitic or Cushitic language. The Oromo, Amhara, and Tigrayans make up more than three-fourths of the population, but there are more than 80 different ethnic groups within Ethiopia. Some of these have as few as 10,000 members.
Semitic-speaking Ethiopians and Eritreans collectively refer to themselves as Habesha or Abesha, though others reject these names on the basis that they refer only to certain ethnicities. The Arabic form of this term is the etymological basis of "Abyssinia," the former name of Ethiopia in English and other European languages.
According to the Ethiopian national census of 1994, the Oromo are the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia at 32.1%. The Amhara represent 30.2%, while the Tigray people are 6.2% of the population. Other ethnic groups are as follows: Somali 6.0%, Gurage 4.3%, Sidama 3.4%, Wolayta 2%, Afar 2%, Hadiya 2%, Gamo 1%. According to the CIA World Factbook of 2006, the ethnic breakup is: 40% Oromo, 32% Amhara and Tigre, 9% Sidamo, 6% Gambela peoples, 6% Somali, 4% Afar, 2% Gurage, and 1% other.
2006-09-06 23:43:34
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answered by Perplexed Music Lover 5
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Perplexed Music Lover is very perplexed, indeed! Most Ethiopians are from the ***** descent? What a joke...
Ethiopians are Ethiopians (and no, they're not African). As a matter-of-fact, every other human race outside of those in America are called by their place of origin.
We're all of the same blood (science has proven that the oldest human remains were found in Africa), so that makes us all Ethiopian Indian Caucasian ******...
2006-09-06 23:47:29
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answered by R C 4
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what indians I don't think american indians look anything like them are you sure you not talking about india?
2006-09-06 23:54:35
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answered by Autumn 5
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