Native American Stereotype (origins) - R U Suprised?

Question

So, I've been thinking of a way to use this Q&A to break stereotypes because I read SO many of them on here.
I am thinking that everyday I will post a new stereotype and see how many people are suprised to read that it is not true.

Here's the third one:

Stereotype: Native American people migrated here from Asia

Truth: The Land Bridge Theory is a good example of scientific racism.

Additional Information:
The land bridge theory is just a theory. It is in fact, scientific racism.
There is more evidence against the theory than for it. There is actually little to no evidence to prove the theory. Most scientists, scholars, and common citizens today believe in this theory on bind faith. They do no research to see if it is true. Why was it created?
So that settlers and their descendants didn't have to feel guilt about stealing this land. Their thinking is that if Natives were immigrants we all had equal rights to it. Well, there is no evidence to support this.

Additional Land Bridge Information:
Theory is that Natives migrated from Asia across a land bridge into Alaska and then spread across the U.S.
Here are some points to ponder. These are simple points, there is not enough room here to get into the actual science.
- What would motivate a group of people to cross a dangerous land bridge into an unknown nation? The group of people that scientists suggest migrated had abundant wildlife and great habitat. They were living the good life. Why would they cross a trechourous and nearly barren land bridge to a land where they didn't know if they would be able to survive. And it would have to be enough people to populate the U.S. so they didn't just send explorers. No scientist yet has provided us with a strong enough motivation to cross a land bridge if it did exist. Look into it. And to add to the trechory of it there are several mountain ranges that these people would have had to cross in order to get from Alaska into the U.S.

- The ocean would have had to drop 200 feet for the land bridge to become available for use. For this to happen 20.82 million cubic kilometers of water would have to evaporate. That is enough water to cover 5 million square miles with a sheet of ice 1.2 miles thick.
- There are no artifacts or any fossil evidence of people living on the Alaskan side of the land bridge. Scientists have still been unable to account for this.
- But perhaps the most compelling evidence is bones of human remains that are found in North America that preceede the dating of the land bridge. One scientist in fact found human used artifacts in North America that date back 250,000 B.P.
- And let us not forget that no scientist has actually provided any scientific evidence that supports the theory that people moved from East to West (and not from West to East) let alone to prove the entire theory. And without evidence it stands as a simple theory.

If you have any questions please post and I will respond to them in additional comments section.

For more information please read: "Red Earth White Lies" by Vine Deloria Jr.

actual the fourth question

stargazing:
two answers for your question
1. all people were once indigenous so should share some traits
2. Native people had boats so they could have interacted with people from Asia, it isn't too much of a distance for a small boat.

Answer 1

The recent discoveries attempts are based on the continual attempt to justify the follow up from the day the land grab began after 1492. In the big picture this is a classic guilty demeanor rebuttal. Understanding the real history of any race is only an attempt by supposed educated people that make a blind stab in the dark and say after looking at skeletal remains, pottery or statues and then stating, oh yeh, that’s what they were. You can get the same stories by talking to the historical items and then telling the world what historical facts were learned.
There were not enough Indigenous people before the Euro invasion to take land from other tribes and then settle that land. The plains people were nomadic, as we know they followed the seasonal changes of their food supply. The coastal tribes were on their lands for thousands of years, you figure that one out. How could the tribes find time to create another home front with such a vast amount of land? The population to land ratio just doesn’t add up. It’s a known fact that the Indigenous people of this land had no need to fence in the land to verify, it’s mine. To the Native people the land belonged to Creator and the Natives felt they were there to honor what was.
And when you think about whiners lets not forget the main focus of whining in America on the issue of immigration???? Another fact is that this jockeying is trying to find a way that will convince the citizens of the America’s that all are immigrants. Let’s look at it from this view point; it’s been proven that the Indigenous people have been here for 15,000 years. My question, what constitutes the first Americans 15,000 or 500 years.

Answer 2

First of all, I agree that Y!A can be very entertaining and educational. At the very least it has encouraged me to look up the sources of many things I did not know about.

Unfortunately in an anonymous venue like this it is also a prime opportunity for people to be rude and spread hatred and misinformation.
Many people post prejudice answers and questions. Some are even obviously claiming ethnicity that they hate just to say foolish things.

As to your posting, there IS evidence multiple waves of immigration by the land bridge either by foot and/or by small boat AND there is ample proof of some humans living here before these migrations. One does not invalidate the other.

One of the current theories is that since humans tend to go through waves of technology and exploration followed by an extended period of settling down that they have spread themselves all over the globe and then new groups have come and fought/joined/integrated with them.
Native Americans are not one homogenous group, they are a multitude of tribes and nations often with differing cultures and heritages. They have been growing and changing on this continent for hundreds of thousands of years.

ADD: There WAS a legal war about land rights. A group of Native Americans had to prove, legally, that they are indigenous, which means that they were the original humans living on this continent.
This was a REAL legal battle that they almost lost.
An attempt to remove ALL land rights from ALL Native Americans was attempted in the courts. The basis of the argument was that if they had migrated from Asia then they were technically immigrants. If they were immigrants then they had very limited rights (immigrants at the time could not own land) and were subject to the same laws as newly arrived immigrants. According to this "logic" they were only OCCUPYING U.S. land because the United States was a nation that had laid claim to the land whereas the so called Native Americans were just being allowed to live on it.
It sounds silly, but a legal council had to prove in court that by religious right that Native Americans believe they were created here and that they were NOT immigrants from Asia, therefore they ARE indigenous and DID have rights to the land before it became part of the USA.

Answer 3

Actually there was little to no war among Native American tribes until the settlers reaced here. The ones who wanted to live in peace with the settlers were considered turncoats by other tribes and thats when majority of factions started warring.


Being Native myself, I dont discount the land bridge theory completely. I do agree however that a populus of people did cross that landbridge. However all tribes did not splinter off just one tribe. Some spread thru Canada and came from the eastern seaboard. I do agree however that the landbridge theory was heavily pushed as a racist way to justify the taking of land

Answer 4

native american stereotype origins suprised

Answer 5

You may be surprised to learn that recent archeology discoveries indicate Europeans may have been the first 'native Americans'.
People who constantly whine about white people taking the land from the Indians, conveniently forget that that the Indians were constantly at war with each other, driving out the weaker tribes and taking their land.

Answer 6

I find your research very interesting, because I am Native American myself (Choctaw and Cherokee). Keep up the good work.

Answer 7

Unlike anyone else, I appreciate the research and will continue to look this up myself. It does sound like something whites would come up with for stealing this country. For those who don't believe it look up Manifest Destiny.

Answer 8

then why do native-americans and asians share such similar physical traits? such as almond-shaped eyes? They've compared willing asian and native-american studies and found that they are very similar physically, right down to their teeth and gum shape. Even some Latin-Americans look Asian, and that is bc they are mixed with native-american blood.