Native Americans and Bering strait theory?

Question

I am wondering if anyone knows of another theory,than
Siberians coming accross the land bridge as it froze over.
How do Native Americans feel about this theory?
Scientists find more info and have more questions.
The old saying "the more you know the more you dont know"
I wonder if they could have just developed as a seperate race
like Africans.
I realize this doesn't go along with modern science and theories.
They have uncovered evidence that Asian and Native American
Dna is alike.
Is this the only possibility?
I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

Answer 1

Who knows, maybe North America is really the Garden of Eden and after the White Man messed up, God gave it to the Native Americans. Who did a pretty darn good job with it until the white man had to come along and mess it all up again!

And how do we know that the Asian people didn't leave North America over the baring strait. Who's to say that the Native Americans weren't on earth before Asians. They can't date genes yet.

Answer 2

Recent DNA haplogroup findings suport the argument that the ancestors of most American Indians ( Polynesians, Innuit, Aleutian Islanders are also Native Americans) crossed over from northeastern Asia approximately 15,000 ago. That date corresponds to the oldest proven human artifacts found in North America. There is also some evidence that some of those Native American groups arrived more recently.

You also asked,"I wonder if they could have just developed as a seperate race like Africans." Scientific evidence is ever stronger that we all descend from Africans. Our human race developed in Africa and then some of us left. There is a school of thought that east Asians developed independently from the rest of us with the result still being homo sapiens. The most DNA evidence tends to refute that.

By the way, I am very proud to be descended from the Cherokee people. But, I don't allow that to cloud my judgement over scientific research. Many amerind peoples' traditional histories tell of them originating somewhere else and then wandering for many years. The Hopi tradition is one example that comes to mind.

Linguists studying the inter-relationships of worldwide languages also are finding language links which support the DNA data.

Wikipedia often has spurious info, but I think these links were written by people who know what they are talking about. The first source I cite is Natl. Geographic.
I'll list them under sources.

Answer 3

Ah, someone who wishes to learn...
I have read so many books in recent years that contradict the accepted theories. One such book was "Red Earth, White Lies". The author, an Indian living in Colorado, states that it is preposterous to believe that Indians came from Siberia during the last ice age overland, crossing mountains as high as 2 miles with another 2 miles of ice on top! (I thought to myself, gee, they would have needed oxygen masks!) But to carry their food (no food available in those ice lands), their tools, clothing, supplies, etc., thousands of miles over such inhospitable terrain? He said that the Indians (People) pases stories down, generation to generation, that they came here in boats. That makes much more sense. After all, if people now can cross the ocean in a rowboat or canoe, those early people certainly could have.
Also, there were several waves of the People; the earliest are now believed to have arrived about 25,000 years ago...which puts a damper on the ice age theory.
The People also claim that there were "white giants" who came from the north! I do know that, when white settlers moved into the region of the great lakes, there were WHITE INDIANS, as pale as any from the British Isles.
Civilizations in France and Spain date back to BEFORE the Great Pyramids in Egypt.
Americans, after colonizing in Massachusetts and surrounding States, moved north, establishing colonies in Maine and Canada, but the established "theory" is that there were only 13 Colonies!
The powers that be like neat little packages with all strings tied. Life is not that way at all.
I would suggest that you read some really good books, to include "The Neanderthal's Necklace", get on the National Geographics sites dealing with mass migration. They blow a lot of holes in the established theories. Like, ancient peoples moved around a lot, as well as peoples during the middle ages.

Answer 4

An excellent question, this rivals the Creationism vs. Darwinism debate. I prefer to look at tribal legends and folklore, some speak of a migration but not "that" particular migration. Some tribal folklore speak of emerging from the Earth, you could say similar to that of Adam and Eve.
My personal answer/question is why are there so many languages, and none have a link to any other Continent. Why culturally are American Indian cultures Matriarchal unlike Asian Patriarchal practises. Another theory has it the Bering Straight Theory is devised to disconnect Aboriginal people of the Western Hemisphere to they're land.

Answer 5

I majored in Geography in college and one of my favorite areas of study was Anthropology. During the Pleistocene Era ice ages (about 13,000 years ago), a land bridge was created across the Bering Sea between Russia's Siberian area and what is now Alaska's Seward Peninsula. At that time, the shallow seas that separate North America and Asia near the present-day Bering Strait (which was named after VITUS BERING, a Danish man doing explorations for the Russian czar, Peter the Great in the 1720's) dropped about 300 feet and created a 1,000 mile wide by 55 miles long area of grassland (or a steppe-like region). Since it was much easier to travel across land than it was by water, it made possible the peopling of the Americas by the people of Asia. They entered North America first (hence "Native Americans" or Indians) and then traveled on into Mexico, Central and South America (giving us the Mayan, Aztec, etc. civilizations).

Answer 6

So is monkey and Human DNA doesn't mean we're monkeys.

The THEORY is just that, a THEORY = i don't really know = opinion without hard proof

My people have artifact that date back 35,000 years, but they won't hear of it because it doesn't FIT their theory.

They won't even HUMOR the Idea maybe people LEFT from here and went OUT to siberia and asia.

It's all an excuse to calm the 'white conscience' to make what they did OK, because "well they immigrated too". The NEW one is , "there was somebody already here when we crossed this land bridge and killed them off."

Doesn't fit OUR history at all. Just MORE excuses and more rhetoric.

Answer 7

Who needs a theory, we have been on this continent for 30,000 years. Long before any so called land bridge from Asia. And besides that theory is so full of holes it looks like Swiss cheese anyway. And more and more holes are being shot into it all the time....

Answer 8

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