did american indians come from alaska?

Answer 1

The best supported theories indicate that their ancestors all came from Asia across the Berring Strait.

Answer 2

NO!

You are refering to the Land Bridge Theory. This states that Native people walked across a land bridge from Asia to Alaska and then spread out across America. This is just a theory. It is not fact. There is little to no evidence to support this theory. In fact there is more evidence to disprove it than there is in favor of it. Scientists, scholars, and common people believe in this theory on blind faith. No one looks into the science of it.
Why? Because this theory was created to rid settlers and their descendents of guilt from stealing this land and commiting genocide and cultural genocide. Their thinking is that if Natives came to America just before they did then they both had equal rights to the land. Well its a crock of hooey.

Think about it. In this theory there were people living in Asia that migrated to Alaska. Well, in this part of Asia scholars agree that food and game was abundant. It was generally a great place to live. The land bridge was nearly barren, not abundant with food or game. And they had no idea what was on the other side of the bridge. So why would a whole huge group of people leave their homes where they were living well trek across a giant land bridge and go to a land leaving behind food and shelter. Not only this, look at a map and look at all the mountain ranges they would have had to scale to accomplish this theory. And did you know that the ocean would have had to drop at least 200 feet for the land bridge to be available and the the largest drop we've know of has been 50 feet. And there are bones in America and Canada that date WAY past the land bridge theory meaning there were already people here. There is more science than this, this is just the simple version. To learn more read "Red Earth White Lies" by Vine Deloria Jr.

Answer 3

I can't find a source to back this up, but I remember reading somewhere that the Bering Strait was connected between Alaska and Russia at some point in time, and they have speculated that that was when the American Indians came across.

Answer 4

Some people believe in a "land bridge theory," which holds that American Indians are originally from Asia and walked across through Alaska when there was land across the Bering Strait.

I don't find that scientific evidence persuasive, though. I prefer to think there must have been an intelligent higher being designing the world to make something like that happen.

Answer 5

American indians are of mongoloid heritage..
The came are of the same basic stock as the Mongolians...
The migrated acoss the Bering Strait during the last ice
age when it was solid and migrated down along the Alaskan
coast into North America....

Answer 6

At one aspect in time everybody got here from an identical position on one continent then the earth chop up and the individuals separated into different tribes or communities of human beings. the first human beings got here to visit from the ecu continent what's idea to be a land bridge then they moved down from Alaska, Canada and ultimately what's popular as u . s . a ..

Answer 7

Sort of. Actually they started their trek in Asia, crossed the Bearing Straights into Alaska, and seeking warmer climates, made their way south to the U.S. Which explains the American Indian's ''oriental look'', doesn't it!

Answer 8

It is a theory they came here from Asia across the Bering Strait, but I suppose it only to be a theory. When you look at these folks and compare the cultures to Asian people, that theory holds no water and that dog does not hunt, in my opinion.

I suspect they came from here, or close to where we found them.

Answer 9

Maybe some, and maybe from Mexico.. Who Knows.

Answer 10

Ask one