Did native Indians migrate to America from Siberia before the continents sperated?

Question

I read somewhere that they did

my bad, I think I actually read they came across the ice. The Continent thing was something else I was researching.

Answer 1

In 1994, I was privileged to travel to Alaska. While I was there a Native American guide gave us a rather in depth talk on the people and how they came to be there. He was a student at a university who did guide work in the summer and he only had one more semester before graduation. He was well studied on the subject. He was certain, as were the people who taught him, that that Asian tribes migrated across the ice pack in the winter while following animals they needed for food. Remember the oceans were lower back then too because a lot of the water was locked in glaciers. That would put it about 5,000 years ago. I believe he was Athabaskan. Interestingly there was a group of South Koreans there that day and he asked two of them to come on stage and stand next to him. The facial similarities were amazing. The younger one could have passed for his brother and the older gentleman could have been his uncle. DNA testing has since verified that North American Natives have similarities to the Asian peoples. They are related more closely than to any other ethnic group. I have to wonder why/how the American natives came to be more reddish while the Asian natives are more yellow and the eyes?
A point to reinforce that time line would be that linguists studying the Cherokee language have determined it to be about 3,000 to 4,000 years old from stories passed down about storms and winters and meteor showers. That would allow about 1,000 years for the people to migrate south into North America and settle in what is now the Carolina's. In the process of getting to the Carolina's they most likely developed their own language and of course improved on it when they were situated in the Carolina's.

Answer 2

After they entered the northern plains as part of the Eastern Shoshoni around 1500, the people who would become the Comanches lived along the upper reaches of the Platte River in southeastern Wyoming ranging between the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and the Black Hills. They got their first horses sometime around 1680 and changed dramatically within a few years. Groups of Comanches separated from the Shoshoni and began to move south in about 1700.

Answer 3

No, vastly different time lines. Humans first migrated to the western hemisphere around 20 or 30 thousand years ago at the earliest, probably closer to the 20 thousand. The continents separated tens to hundreds of millions of years ago, and they separated from the other direction, actually Asia and North America are not moving closer together, not farther apart.

Answer 4

No, that would have been too long ago!

They paddled across in canoes or crossed in the cold of winter by walking across the ice.

There were at least 3 separate waves of immigration from Siberia to North America in pre-historic times.

Answer 5

Urban coyote is right; the time when this happened is thought to be 11,000 to 13,000 years ago.

However, there is a new theory that puts European (yes, you read that right) immigrants on the East Coast of North America 18,000 years ago, based on Clovis points found in, I believe, Virginia that pre-date the Siberian immigration by at least 5,000 years.

Answer 6

Uh yeah. How else are they going to get to the Americas? They weren't tech savvy about water travel back then.

Answer 7

yes

Answer 8

just maybe it was the other way around, maybe first nations people were really the first people.